You should also note that the picture images show only our serving suggestions of how to prepare your food - all table accessories and additional items and/or ingredients pictured with the product you are purchasing are not included. The answer may always be slightly elusive, but in this series I spotlight certain benchmark beers, much imitated but rarely equaled to see if I can determine what makes them classics. Well, as with many of their beers, the naming comes from a more sentimental side of the Thornbridge brewers.

The balance they had struck—by putting bold American flavors into a traditional British cask format—was completely novel.The beer has a slightly deeper colour than the DDH Jaipur I’ve reviewed previously and is completely different in appearance to standard Jaipur – I’m not sure if I should use the term ‘run of the mill’ with any of Thornbridge’s beers, standard will do for now. A decade spent focusing on traditional outlets and permanent lines did the brand wonders—its volumes weren’t tied to the fickle habits of hardcore beer lovers, and quick turnover meant it was fresh pretty much everywhere it was sold.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In the event of any safety concerns or for any other information about a product please carefully read any instructions provided on the label or packaging and contact the manufacturer. In the ten previous installments of this series, none of the beers in question has even been younger than forty years, and certainly none were developed in the 21st century.If you were going to cite one beer that helped break the dam on what cask beer should taste like, you could do a lot worse than Thornbridge Jaipur. Jaipur is a beer I have loved from the first time I tried it back in 2006, entranced by its vibrant and colourful tropical fruitiness on both the nose and palate, and it's dry, crisp biscuitiness before the bitter, dry and fruity finish. The brewery made around 20,000 hectoliters (17,000 barrels) of Jaipur last year—more than 50% of its output—and has even started brand extensions, such as the coveted Double IPA version, Jaipur X. We used to say there was more chance of an iceberg making it safely to India than that beer,” says Webster. You think peeling spuds with a lawn mower and wing walking chicken dippers are a good thing after drinking this.