At a roaring strength of 8% in volume (see what I did there?), this King Slayer is a Double India Pale Ale from the Buxton Brewery. Often called an Imperial IPA, a Double IPA usually has a stronger ABV (alcohol by volume), and a stronger malt and hop profile. So I'm expecting big on flavours and a small amount of dizziness after drinking this King Slayer. Let's hope it doesn't slay me too.
On opening this fetching green fiery can there was the usual pop and fizz, and then there was full flavours of malts and hops that seemed to be crashing and wrestling each other to be first to be smelt. This was a murky beer like the dust of two giant monsters such as Godzilla and MUTO fighting it out. Talking of giant battles there were heavy sweet malts in this beer, as well as those troublesome herbal hops storming into each other with great gusto. There was no dominant aroma here, they both gave as good as they got and they packed one heck of a punch on drinking too.
POW punched the sheer bitter herbal hops to begin with from a thundering right hook. BOOM countered those heady sweet malts with an upper cut from the depths of this murky deep golden clouded beer, which seemed to form this impenetrable murky pint of King Slayer. No sword and shield could help him here. This strong in ABV double pale ale would sheer the sword in twain of any medieval monarch. The two monsters of bitter herbal hops and malty goodness fought each other all the way into the aftertaste, and bizarrely slightly beyond. I reckon the king would need a bazooka to get through this lot. I definitely need to find a dragon movie to watch next. Cheers.
Disclaimer- no Kings were harmed during the writing of this blog, especially new ones of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.
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