Brewery: BrewDog
Location: Fraserburgh, Scotland
ABV: 5.0%
Version: 330ml bottle

Regular readers will have noticed we have a fondness for the beers offered by BrewDog (and with Darren having just spent silly money on a bottle of their new very limited edition Zephyr), but with the amount of new product they seem to be launching these days sometimes covering the older more established brews can fall to the wayside.

The Physics is the BrewDog take on an amber beer (marketed with the slogan “laid back amber beer”), a style which in my experience tends towards the sweeter end of the taste chart, so it would be interesting to see what they would do with it. The beer is dark amber in colour, so sticking to the template so far. Aroma is warm and fresh, subtle caramel malt backing up some fruity hoppiness. The taste has the familiar citrusy hoppy character of their Punk IPA, but with a sweeter, mellower character, the malt bringing some biscuity caramel notes to the mix. The laid back tag is certainly apt, but personally I found it a bit too restrained to have lasting appeal. It’s not a bad beer, all the elements are mixed well and it tastes fine, it’s just not for me. However, it would quite possibly serve as a good introduction for the newcomer to the world of hoppier BrewDog beers.