Brew Dog: Punk IPA
June 18th, 2009 | brainjuice
The other day, two large boxes arrived at my door from Scotland. "Finally, those small children I ordered!", I thought. But no. It was better. It was beer, from the craft brewery called Brew Dog, who felt I needed to discover their delicious falling-down water.
Tonight, I opened the first bottle, a thing called Punk IPA.
Oh my fucking god. You need to order this by the crate. That was the best IPA I’ve had in forever. Incredibly complex, waaaay too quaffable, summer fruit and caramel but crisp and clean, a beautifully rich mix of hops and a good hard six percent kick to snap the eyes open.
I love you, Brew Dog. You are going to be getting lots of my money on the strength of Punk IPA alone, and I haven’t gotten to any of the others in the boxes you so kindly sent yet.
This is not the thin, shallow love of small children, young girls and other domesticated animals, Brew Dog. This is the love of Men.
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Yes! And they’ve been selling it in a lot of large Tesco stores in the UK for 99p for a while now. Another excellent full flavoured Scottish beer becoming more readily available is William Bro’s Midnight Sun, well worth trying if you’re into punchy dark beers/stouts.
Aha! I thought that looked familiar: it was on sale at Stone Brewing in Escondido, CA last time I visited my hometown. I wonder how it compares to the Stone IPA:
http://www.stonebrew.com/ipa/
“And they’ve been selling it in a lot of large Tesco stores in the UK for 99p for a while now.”
Oooooh, thanks for that, I’ll have to see if I can get hold of a few bottles.
If it were real punk there would be no price tag.
Tesco.com have it for £1.31 a bottle on a three for two offer.
Another little brewery that does a great india pale ale is the meantime brewers - http://www.meantimebrewing.com/. I adore their London Stout as well.
Yay. I was probably one of the only people who liked Punk IPA when they served it at Twestival last year. Trashy Blonde is not bad either, but wait until you try the Paradox - that nearly blew my head off.
I was going to mention, just wait until you try the Riptide and the Paradox but it occurred to me that I don’t know if you prefer stouts to lighter styles of beer.(?)
When I was in London I got into the TV series’ Oz and James Great Wine Adventures, and took the DVDs home to Australia with me for my wine-snob partner to watch. Over a couple of weekends, while everyone else in the world was out having social lives and enjoying their youth, we inhaled 3 seasons of British old-man drunkery.
Those two old farts interviewed the makers of Brew Dog on a park bench in Scotland, drinking their Punk IPAs out of frozen pea bags.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrQSpaG17g&feature=related (about 7 min in)
Promoting anti-social behaviour?
It took me weeks to find an international beer house in Western Australia who could get it in. And it was absolutely worth it. I’ll promote anti-social behaviour like that any day.
They also do this with a “Make Your Own Custom Label” service… I’ll find the link at some point…
http://www.brandedbeer.com/ There you go! Brew Dog beers with your own, custom, label… go for your life!
Dammit - checking their website, almost everything they make is out of stock
I second the Paradox, serious punch in the tongue.
Far less impressed with Meantime’s effort, bit wishy washy for my taste.
Hmm, I have to try that.
I have become a real of Meantime brewing of late. Their coffee porter is simply awesome.
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Their Tokyo drink is heaven-sent and the insane strawberry beer limited range at the moment is also well worth a drink. There’s not a duff one in the collection - and the Paradox as a KICK.
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