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21-12-2011, 12:11
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I named Hawkshead Windermere Pale as my best overall beer of 2011 (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/golden-pint-awards.html), but I wonder if that is so now. It is still the lovely easy quaffer with a complex hop bill that made me think so, but you know, last night I had a beer - not for the first time - that sent my senses reeling. Actually, if I'd had a couple more, it would have sent me reeling too.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NMFmsjcFLzs/TvHCYWbD4LI/AAAAAAAADCA/LPi9mJ2a_VQ/s1600/nzpa4-SMALL.png (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NMFmsjcFLzs/TvHCYWbD4LI/AAAAAAAADCA/LPi9mJ2a_VQ/s1600/nzpa4-SMALL.png)The beer is of course the one illustrated on the left. (It would have been perverse for it to be otherwise, though I did think of putting something else on to throw you off the scent for a couple of lines.) Hawkshead New Zealand Pale Ale is wonderful. It bursts on the palate with a cornucopia of tropical fruits, is bitter and citric and so very, very drinkable for its 6% abv. One isn't enough and three may just be too many, as it commands respect strengthwise, though the alcohol is cunningly disguised.

If ever a beer could be described as dangerously drinkable, this it it. So will I change my mind? No. But you know, in a sneaking way I want to.

It knocks Jaipur, especially in its current sugar sweet, enfeebled state into a cocked hat. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8629758183547510158-1657368797817188175?l=tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.c om


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