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Down, Down Forward, Forward (Any punch button)……..Hadouken!!!!
This alone brings back so many memories of possibly my favourite ever arcade game, Street Fighter 2. I do not want to imagine how many hours and how much money I spent playing this classic, so when I found out that one of the beers featured in the Tiny Rebel selection box was called Hadouken, I simply had to put my name down for this.
I’m Shoryuken appreciate how much I am looking forward to this amplified IPA, so let’s not mess around any longer and bring on this new challenger.
1. Name : Hadouken
2. Brewery: Tiny Rebel (Newport, Wales)
3. Hops : Not stated
4. Grain : Barley & Wheat
5. Aroma : Punchy hops cutting through the tropical aromas, this smells very nice indeed
6. Appearance : Pours amber in colour with a dissipating one finger white head
7. Body : Full bodied beer with a nice, almost creamy mouthfeel
8. Taste : This has a taste that takes you back to when IPA’s first became popular with the craft beer (sonic) boom. The beer has a very pleasant flavour profile with delicate tropical notes that are balanced well using the hops that create an extremely moreish taste.
9. Allergens: Cereals containing gluten
Hadouken is a beer that was first created by the Tiny Rebel brewers Brad & Gazz in their garage in their homebrew days, and boy has this one aged well. Whilst the hops in this do not give you a hundred hand slap in the face like many modern-day IPA’s everything about this just works so well. It would be fair to say that this is a beer that is beautifully balanced, easy drinking and extremely moreish.
I will always love Street Fighter 2, I now love Hadouken and I could easily sink a few of these, however at 7% abv if you were to drink too many it could be like encountering a Bison head stomp. I will certainly be keeping my eyes open for this again in the future and inserting my coins into whichever retailer I see stocking this, a very nice beer indeed…..Tiny Rebel, You win!
Our overall rating: 4.0/ 5.0
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