Just had one of the worst beers I have ever had: BrewDog’s Dogma (named after the crap film perhaps). But it’s not as easy as that. To confound matters it was followed by their Hardcore IPA, which is a wonderful interpretation of a DIPA and the hop bombs keep carpet-bombing my palate as if directed by Bomber Harris, but am thoroughly shocked by Dogma; it’s horrible. It’s like a piercing whistle of a beer with its high shrill notes of powdery guarana (I should know as I take the stuff when I Iay off the coffee) making it utterly unpalatable (in music terms Lydia Lunch springs to mind, no-noise New York rubbish from the late 1970s or free form jazz even). There is honey in it as well apparently, but if bees are vanishing I am not surprised if they are starting to produce this sort of honey. I suspect it’s a gag, a situationist, MacLarenist sort of jape that takes us all for mugs. However, I bought this at Sainsbury’s, and it is one of their beers that has got through to the supermarket’s beer finals. It can’t have been this severe to get through — or who on earth were the judges? On the other hand, maybe it’s a wry comment from BrewDog that whatever they produce it will be lionised. Clever and cynical — art school rock lives.
The last bottle of Hardcore I had was pretty rougth. I could'nt finish it. Totally lacking any concept of ballance, not all that aromatic but searingly bitter. I remember the Hardcore scene of the 90's (at least the Wellington New Zealand Hardcore scene) and it was way more classy than the beer.
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed the Hardcore and have just at this minute asked the wife if she would pick me up some more from Sainsbury’s.
ReplyDeletePicked up a few each of the 3 last week. Found the Hardcore nice if a bit one-note, the Dogma was certainly odd - sort of weirdly sweetly spicy but was just about palatable - glad I tried it though; unlike the Chaos Theory which was frankly rank, starts ok but the flavour on the finish was bizzarely medical and bloody disgusting. Some experiments don't bear repeating so I gave my last bottle away. Doesn't happen often I can tell you! Enjoying the blog btw!
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