Tasting Notes: Facers: Cwrw Campus: DHB: Dave’s Hoppy Beer

Facers: Cwrw Campus: DHB: Dave’s Hoppy Beer (Wales: Golden Ale: 4.3% ABV)

Visual: Just a bit hazy browned grain with barely a sheen of white suds.

Nose: Greenery and resin. Light sweetness and pineapple.

Body: Prickly hops and nettles. Greenery. Sweetness. Pineapple juice and toffee.

Finish: Hops, citrus lime and bitterness. Resin and hop oils. Vanilla.

Conclusion:  Sometimes all a beer needs is a simple trick done well. This is a simple beer of just such a style. Its trick is prickly hops and pineapple juice.  It tastes well enough as well, with the hop style being such that I wondered initially if it had been green hopped (for reference best I can tell it wasn’t).

The abv is nearly low enough to be a true session beer, and frankly it’s not far off so it does that job well enough as is.  The taste lasts well over a couple as well.  Nothing too heavy but it stays fresh and flavoursome.  Frankly it is a one trick pony, but if you are looking for something hoppy to tide you through a pub conversation then this will fill the session nicely.

So a nice prickly of moderate bitterness and nice hoppiness. None too bad I must say.

Background: Drunk at the Royal Oak.  Was the only beer I hadn’t tried on tap.  That about all I knew going in.