Comments on: Tasting Notes: BrewDog Nanny State

By: Darren Turpin

Darren Turpin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:39:38 +0000

Ed mate, sounds like you got a couple of pre-release (proof?) bottles or something? In which case, I suppose it could be possible that they changed the recipe from the experimental to the mass-production version?

By: Ed Ashby

Ed Ashby — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:06:28 +0000

Picked up a couple of bottles this evening and nearly finished the first one. And I have to admit, I quite like it. Citrusy, with a vegetative, grassy approach that I don’t usually go for, but here is very well balanced. No sourness evvident either, so maybe there a few dodgy bottles out there. Don’t think I could drink too much of it though, the two bottles I have will do me for now, which does seem a bit at odds with the strength.
I would like to know where the label went, all I got was a basic white one identifying the brewery, beer, strength and bottle size; no green label adorned with BrewDog marketing spiel. But then I only paid £1.59 per bottle.

By: AndrewS

AndrewS — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:20:08 +0000

Sounds like you had a bad bottle. I sampled Nanny State on draught at the Sheffield beerfest and thoroughly enjoyed it (but, then, I’m a total hop monster). My tasting notes say:

‘Murky deep brown colour. Intense creamy orange and grapefruit hop aromas on nose. Overwhelming earthy, bitter hop and coffee flavours with a tongue-scouringly bitter and mouth drying finish. Amazing for its ABV.’

By: Darren Turpin

Darren Turpin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:04:51 +0000

@Mark – That should be an intriguing comparison… they’re antipodean opposites in my book, it’ll be interesting to see if you can find any points of similarity.

@Mike – I’m glad you enjoyed it. Adds weight to the possibility that there was something wrong with my bottle as well, which means there’s hope for me with the second one, eh?

By: mike,

mike, — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:01:38 +0000

I have to say I disagree with this. I bought 6 bottles from the website and although expensive, 2.50 per bottle with no beer duty to pay (go figure) I thought it was a beer that i could really get into. You need to be a hop maniac to enjoy this perhaps but to get that much flavour into a beer that you can more or less drink as much as you like and still be able to act and function like a human being i found mightily impressive. On the first sittng i had 3 bottles and felt great. Long lingering powerfull hop bitterness from strong america hops. Well done I say, more brewers should try the same.
Mike.

By: Mark, Real-Ale-Reviews.com

Mark, Real-Ale-Reviews.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:49:18 +0000

I'm looking forward to trying this whether it's good or not. It seems than How To Disappear Completely and Nanny State might just divide the beer community more than Tokyo, I've heard such varied reports on both. We might actually do a Tokyo versus Nanny State taste off actually, as we have 3 bottles of the former to go. Now just need to get some of the latter!