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Buxton Red Point IPA

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Brewed by Buxton
Style: Amber Ale
Buxton, England

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RATINGS: 19   MEAN: 3.64/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.52   SEASONAL: Special   EST. CALORIES: 225   ABV: 7.5%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Red Point - rock climbing parlance developed in the Frankenjura in the ’70s. The practice of painting and filling in a red circle at the foot of a newly climbed route - Rot Punkt.


3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Hippoman (284) - Durham, ENGLAND - OCT 13, 2015
Keg at IMBC 2015. Pours mid-amber with a small but bubbly, cream-coloured head. The nose is classic IPA, strongly fruity with slight earthy, skunky notes. There’s lovely sweet tropical fruit in the early flavour, leading into a long, dry finish. The bitterness could be called slightly overbearing, or vaguely astringent, but it’s still very drinkable for its ABV and is a very pleasant IPA on the whole.

3.7
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Travlr (17031) - Washington, Washington DC, USA - OCT 8, 2015
Bottle. Clear bright golden color, tan head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of stone fruit and burnt caramel. Taste is spiced brown bread and fruit, nicely balanced, dry finish.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
Leighton (14836) - London, Greater London, ENGLAND - OCT 7, 2015
Bottle at home in London - sourced via Eebria. Pours mostly clear reddish gold with a sturdy, frothy off-white head. Gooey pine in the aroma, some toasted malts, ripe citrus fruits, orange. Medium sweet flavor with some toasted bready and crackery malts, lightly faded piney hops, grapefruit, orange rind, some melon. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Resinous on the finish with bitter grass, some oily pine, ripe and rindy citrus, grainy bread, crackers, mellow earth. This one was bottled a little over two months ago so perhaps it’s not in prime condition, but there’s still some nice piney and earthy hop character in here.

4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
minutemat (2787) - Shrewsbury, Shropshire, ENGLAND - OCT 6, 2015
330ml bottle @ Shrewsbury Beer Share, Travlr edition, Oct 15. Pours murky brown with off-white head. Good strong flavoursome red ale with rye, berries and pine merging together. Very nice this.

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
BlackHaddock (5113) - Shropshire, ENGLAND - OCT 6, 2015
330ml bottle shared at a Shrewsbury bottle exchange group meeting with Gene as a guest on 5th Oct 2015. Cheers for bringing this Gene to our little gathering. Amber bodied brew with a red hue, cream coloured topping. Rye like aroma and taste with a spiced undertone, other sweeter, fruitier flavours arrive mid-sip and the initial Rye thoughts disappear as the beer warms in the mouth.

3.9
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 17/20
likeatrainwreck (219) - Stockport, Cheshire, ENGLAND - SEP 26, 2015
Cloudy copper/brown with an off white head. Sticky, sweet malts, giving way to an assertive fruity, piney hop bitterness. Really enjoyed this one.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
Fin (8574) - Merton, Oxfordshire, England, Oxfordshire, ENGLAND - SEP 23, 2015
Bottle from Eebria, consumed at home, Wednesday 23rd September 2015. Pours reddy brown colour with a scummy off white sticky head. Some loose sweet sherberty lemon, soft mouthfeel (nice carbonation) juicy, the bitterness is a little bit harsh, just a little, the maltiness is a little more pronounced than the Axe Edge (tried alongside) but this is good. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov15 3.7

3.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
johndoughty (4531) - cheslyn hay, West Midlands, ENGLAND - SEP 19, 2015
Bottle. Slightly red appearance. Small head. Blackcurrant and hops merge together in a subtle way. Gentle and drinkable.

2.9
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 9/20
juffage (136) - Leeds, West Yorkshire, ENGLAND - SEP 15, 2015
On tap at Buxton Tap House. Copper colour in appearance, similar to High Tor. Apparently the recipe is based on Imperial Black and it shows. Definite roasty carafa malt thing going on. Biscuits, grapefruit, mango, slightly spicy aftertaste. Still though, Imperial Black is way better.

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
_angst_ (3728) - Göteborg, SWEDEN - AUG 30, 2015
Draught @ BBB. Pours hazy brownish red with a frothy brownish beige head that leaves some sparse trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty, slightly fruity, slightly grassy and tiny earthy with biscuits, caramel, grapefruit juice, mango, apricots, pineapple, moist grass, pine needles, moist soil and lemon zest. Taste is slightly sweet, bitter, slightly fruity, slightly floral and slightly earthy. Mouthfeel I round, astringent and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and bitter with dark bread, biscuits, caramel, grapefruit, mango, moist grass, pine needles, moist soil, apple skins and lemon zest. Solid red IPA which I can’t say is my style preference.


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