BrewDog has been making a splash in the UK for the last couple years based on attitude and marketing and doing things differently. Most notably their ultra strong (gimmicky) "beers" called "Tactical Nuclear Penguin" and "Sink the Bismark".
I recently listened to an interview with the brewers and owners and they say they're trying to bring a bit of the inventiveness from the American craft beer scene over to the UK.
Some of their stuff has been showing up here in So Cal. recently so I thought I'd give it a try.

I paid $5.99 for a 22Oz bomber of Punk IPA

Stats from their site:
ABV:6%
OG:1052
IBU’s:65 (international Bitterness Units)
Malts:Marris Otter Extra Pale Malt
Hops:Chinook, Ahtanum, Nelson Sauvin <--from New Zeland

The appearance of the beer is straw yellow and it looks thin like a pilsner. The head doesn't really stand and there's light lacing on the glass.
The nose is almost all yeast with a bit of a resinous hoppy smell.
Maybe I've been on the west coast drinking 100+ IBU IPA's for too long but think thing tastes to me like a normal pale ale. There's almost no malt to back up the hops and the finish is again the resinous hop flavor and a slight warming of alcohol.
Its dryness and lack of fruity esters would exclude it from being classified as an English IPA, but the lack of malt backbone and hop aroma and flavor would seem to exclude it from being and American IPA.

It tastes like a poorly executed Sierra Nevada pale ale.

Normally I'd let this slide, but they have a rather long diatribe on the label describing how bold and innovative this beer is...they're dismissive in a way that almost mirrors the label of a Stone Arrogant Bastard. They even tell the reader to go back to their yellow and fizzy pilsners and lagers.

Well guess what BrewDog?...your IPA is yellow and fizzy and I won't be buying any more of it.
Focus on brewing instead of marketing and maybe you'll still have a brewery after 5 years.



Prost!

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mechaphil

thanks for the review....sucks when you try a new beer and you get scammed.....

guess i won't be trying this punk ass brewery's IPA.....

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Arrogant Bastard, Fat Tire, and Three Philosophers, all day long

Good (harsh) review of a beer I won't be searching for to try any time soon ^.^

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Well don't sweat it because I think their only US distribution is via Stone and only to the California market for now.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but the name screams, "buy me because I'm hip."

Doesn't surprise me the beer is lacking.

Thanks for the heads up.

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Wheelhouse

When someone puts IPA on the label I expect a damn IPA

It wouldn't have been harsh if they called it an American Pale Ale.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

heh...touche

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