BREWER: Marble Beers, Greater Manchester, England

STYLE: IPA

ABV: 6.8%

VESSEL: 500ml tin

X: @marblebrewers

INSTAGRAM: marblebrewers

DATE OF POST: 1st April 2024

 

SAMMY SAY’S…

Listen, if a beer’s packing 6.8%, then it should be better than this. 

While Earl Grey IPA smells of bergamot and tastes of bergamot, it’s actually not above average in its tasting. It delivers on its promise, but earl grey and IPA just do not belong together. 

The sweetness is not tempered by bitterness in anyway shape or form. In actual fact, you get more bitterness from a tea brew than this beer brew. 

Earl Grey IPA is bang average at best. It fails to deliver as a beer while actually delivering on what it says it is. 

This will disappear into insignificance for me. 

Sammy’s Rating: 53%

 

JYMI SAY’S…

Sammy and I have a rich history with Earl Grey ales. I’m not going to go into it but…

actually, I’m not going to go into it at all. But I was full of anticipation here.

And Marble have only gorn and let me down. Flippin eck.

I think one of my notes in my testing book kinda sums this beer up…

Not bad, but all a bit meh.

See, there are notes of tea and a dryness to accompany that. With this comes quite a thin and light texture and mouthfeel. In this instance this is actually a good thing as it does make this brew easy to drink. There is also a pleasant bitterness rounding everything off in the aftertaste. You would think that with all of this going on we would have a real good brew on our hands. But we don’t, as the flavours don’t really materialise into anything, therefore leaving EGIPA falling into the bang average bracket unfortunately.

I won’t be bothering to try and find this beer again to be honest.

Jymi’s Rating: 56%

 

MUSE ON BOOZE RATING: 54.5 %

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