4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20500 ml bottle purchased at Artisan Fine Wine Suppliers in Auckland, NZ last month while on holiday there. Pours a clear gold-amber color with two fingers of off-white foam. Holy crap...the aroma really leaps out of the glass with tropical fruit (mango, papaya, passion fruit) that is sticky and overripe. The aroma also includes some peach and honey-caramel notes. Flavor has lots more overripe tropical fruit notes but is less bright than the nose. Passion fruit is the real stand-out, but the flavor also has notes of mellow citrus (earthy orange and limes), herbs, berries, and creamy-honey maltiness. Though the hops are up front, this is actually a very well-balanced and not particularly bitter IPA. I have to say that these New Zealand hops are great and I hope to see them used more by American brewers. Of course, locally in San Diego we have Alpine’s Nelson and Stone recently had Ruination double dry-hopped with Motueka and Pacific Jade hops for growler fills. Would love to see more like this. (248, 706)
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 500 ml
Aroma leafy like with grapefruit notes. Candy like backing. Soft aromatic fruity ending. 7+
Appearance poured clear amber . Lighter tanned fine top. Ring on glass, sparse lace. 3+
Flavor and Palate : smooth front with quiet bitter green hop feel. This one is quiet hoppy even for an IPA. Alcoholic heat n top. Great base but beer felt as was not most coherent. All parts did not talked to each other.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours clear copper with a small white head and great lacing. Aroma is tropical fruit and bready malts. Taste is a moderate warming fruity bitterness, dryness in the palate with a sweet bready and honey malt finish. Really nice.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
absolutey frickin brilliant...similar to the fresh version, got a lot of tangelo flavour but this seemed even sharper than that one. don’t have many more comments to add to the other except that this is better.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Copper blonde with a thick fluffy off-white head. Beautiful! Fruity aromas of grape, kiwi and pepper. Light to medium body, low carbonation, loads of fruits on the palate including grapes and a strong blackberry and peppery profile that ends on a kiwi fruit long finish. Medium bitterness, never obtrusive, all the floor is laid for the fruity hops to shine. Very nice IPA!
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sample at CBC 2013.
Hazy orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma and flavour of fruit, hops, malt and caramel.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Superb antipodean IPA. Great showcase of what can be done with New Zealand sourced ingredients (and European sourced brewer)! Look out for the seasonal ’fresh hopped’ version too - yum!
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap @CBC13 2013,
hazy orange/amber with an average white foam head.
Pine, citrus, malt. Lactose notes and maerican oak ...
Something strange ... maybe the brewer served me a blend or maybe I was too druk to appreciate it.
But guess what ... I loved it actually.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500 ml bottle into a tulip
Clear orange color. One finger white head, Excellent retention and lacing, Thick soapy lacing left behind.
Nose is a combination of pine, dank citrus, and some dank tropical fruits. Vibrant and fresh nose but quite dank and dirty smelling. Good caramel backbone nose to go with this.
Pine, grapefruit and once again a dirty/dank tropical fruit and orange taste. Would swear there is simcoe by the dankness but it is not.
Bold and brash feel to this. Heavy but enough carbonation to lift this. Not as much oil or resin as compared to US IPA’s but works well as the pure dirtyness and body is quite nice.
Really need to buy more of this stuff.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
500ml bottle. A clear orange body, medium beige head with excellent retention and beautiful lacing. Aroma of caramel, grapefruit, very floral, pine, orange and a touch of spices. Tastes light and watery upfront, with an increasingly bitter hop wave, caramel, orange, herbs, fruity and a little chewy.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap @CBC13. Aroma a bit faint, of grapefruit and oranges. Taste of malt, citrus and pine, long finish hoppy finish.
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