Beer Viking

I’m taking a tasting publishing hiatus at the moment but still had post about this.

Amazing news to report.

One of BeerViking’s firm favourite brewers, Dark Star Brewing Co., have confirmed they are brewing their award winning American Pale Ale all the time now and not just seasonally.

Here’s what Dark Star says about the American Pale Ale:

4.7% American Pale Ale
(March – May)
The yeast strain used for the brewing of the pale, dry, American Ales was specially imported from the USA, along with some Chinook and Centennial hops, to produce this pale ale. The low colour Maris Otter malt provides a perfect light colour and dryness to balance the crisp taste and full aroma of the hops.

At writing:

Beeradvocate,  there’s been 6 reviews with a rating of an A and an ave. of 4.38.

ratebeer, 44 reviews, ave. rating is 3.65/5, 97 percentile in it’s glass and 91 overall.

For us hop heads in the UK, this is certainly a great start to 09 and I would say lays down the challenge to the other UK brewers to come up something competitive.

Now if only Dark Star will bottle this then we’re really onto something.