 ChainGangGuy (2558), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 3, 2009
A comparison of two casks: one tapped 24 hours prior and dry-hopped with Centennial, Cascade, and Chinook and one tapped only minutes ago dry-hopped with the rarely-used Zeus hop variety.
Appearance: Both arrived an opaque, mahogany-hued body, though the prior cask offered up a bit of a muddled appearance, being one of the very last pours from the firkin. Each sported a dense, creamy-looking, light beige head.
Smell: Caramelly maltiness with a slight bready bent to it. While each had a fair amount of grassy tones, the cask dry-hopped with the 3C’s had notes of white grapefruit and lemon, while the Zeus had fresh floral tones paired with grapefruit lightly dusted with spice.
Taste: Light touches of chewy caramel candy from the crystal malts with further hints of crisp grains and bread. The cask dry-hopped with a melange of C-hops had a nice earthy, grassy character and a bold citrus taste. The just-tapped Zeus cask was floral, grassy and had a pithy grapefruit character and background zestiness to it. Both were medium in bitterness. The prior cask finished drying and bittersweet, while the latter cask ended a tad more dry and bitter.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation for the Zeus version and medium-low for the day-old cask, though both were rather smooth in the mouthfeel department.
Drinkability: A fun, engaging juxtaposition of varying hop varieties and the effects of oxygen on beer. Both were amply bitter with bright hop characters and I look forward to this one hitting the regular line-up.
lithy (1687), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 19, 2009 Hazy orange, whitish cover. Aroma is toasty, husky malts. Taste is sweet caramel, sugar, toast, not much bitterness or hops.
CheersMate1 (793), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 13, 2009 Updated: Nov 14, 2009Fairly good IPA. My brother and I had this on tap after an experience with the APD. Anyways, nice haze dark orange color. Nice hoppy aroma for an IPA. Nice citrusy hop IPA aroma. I will not lie, I was in a different condition while trying this beer. The beer had a nice hop profile; it had a nice smooth citrus and hop flavor. I am very surprised this came out the way it did. Left some decent lacing, but overall this is a very flavorful IPA with a lot of nice bittering hops as well as citrus hops to round everything out.
kp (8399), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 7, 2009
Date: October 30, 2009
Mode: Firkin
Source: Brewpub
Words: dry hopped with centennial cascade and chinook
Appearance: muddy orange, fine off white head, layers of lace
Aroma: huge fresh hop aroma, floral and citrus, touch of malty sweetness
Body: creamy body
Flavor: lots of citrus flavor, sweet malt, balancing bitterness, touch of bitter citrus rind, sweet orange
Date: October 30, 2009
Mode: cask
Score: 3.4
Words: day 2
Appearance: picking up a more earthy character on the second day
Flavor: much creamier and more blended array of flavors
Date: October 30, 2009
Mode: cask
Score: 3.6
Words: zeus dry hop
picking up a sweeter and fruityer character with a nice spicyness, very creamy, nice citrus,
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.9/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *** /4
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