First of all, I'm so sorry, and angry with myself, for not writing a Beermeister blog for so long, caught up in other things is my lame excuse! But, a combination of rain persisting down, and few £s, finds me sitting indoors watching raindrops hitting the window pane, and with the laptop on... Anyway, this IPA is brewed by the excellent Oakham Ales, but for Marks & Spencer. I found 4 cans of this a few weeks ago and managed to hold off drinking them, they were £2 a 330ml can, and I seem to remember 4 for the price of 3, so a decent deal, but to the drinking...
The Double Hopped Citra IPA is a pale golden American Pale Ale style beer, a strong 5.9%, so 2 units of alcohol in each can. The label and advertising blurb suggests 'Mango, Lemon & Lime' flavoured, and there certainly is strong mixed citrus and tropical fruit in the aroma, but I got more citrus in the taste, coming straight from the Citra hops used, and Oakham Ales (website) do, indeed, use plenty of hops in their ales. Comparatively, Citra hops are used in their excellent 4.2% Citra Session IPA and, their stronger, and even more excellent 6% Green Devil IPA, to which the Doubled Hopped Citra IPA compares reasonably favourably, shame it's not in a cask. Anyway, the M&S canned variety has plenty of body and finishes off with a very dry bitterness, I quite enjoyed drinking it, 'any port in a storm' comes to mind, cheers!
