Tonight I started with a 16oz bottle of my own Willamette pale ale, which I found languishing in the back of my fridge for about the past month. The month of cold conditioning had turned it from a hazy yellowish, slightly grassy-smelling brew into a superb English bitter.
Since I was drinking English-style beers, I thought I'd try out the Angel City IPA that has been sitting in the door of my fridge for the past couple weeks. It says on the bottle it's made with Goldings so I supposed this was an English style IPA.
The beer had very low carbonation. I practically had to pour it from orbit to get a head on it. The malt flavor was...different. I know English IPAs often have a biscuit flavor, but it seemed kind of overpowering in this beer. In terms of bitterness...well perhaps I am too used to American IPAs but I thought English IPAs were supposed to be more bitter than pale ales. This one did not leave me with that impression at all.
It's pretty much to style, I guess. But, there's absolutely nothing remarkable about it and the biscuit flavor just seems to overwhelm the other flavors in my opinion. The carbonation was also atrocious. Could have just been that batch or the bottle I got, I suppose.
Since I was drinking English-style beers, I thought I'd try out the Angel City IPA that has been sitting in the door of my fridge for the past couple weeks. It says on the bottle it's made with Goldings so I supposed this was an English style IPA.
The beer had very low carbonation. I practically had to pour it from orbit to get a head on it. The malt flavor was...different. I know English IPAs often have a biscuit flavor, but it seemed kind of overpowering in this beer. In terms of bitterness...well perhaps I am too used to American IPAs but I thought English IPAs were supposed to be more bitter than pale ales. This one did not leave me with that impression at all.
It's pretty much to style, I guess. But, there's absolutely nothing remarkable about it and the biscuit flavor just seems to overwhelm the other flavors in my opinion. The carbonation was also atrocious. Could have just been that batch or the bottle I got, I suppose.