3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draught at Bishops Arms Mollbergs, Helsingborg. August 2011.
A pretty generic attempt on an American IPA. I does succeed in the hop character. I get the citrus notes, some pine and also blackberries but it’s not that fresh and appealing. The taste and body is decent but nothing out of the ordinary. Next time I’ll go for something else..
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from trade with Tkrjukoff, @ home shared with Joes and DutchDrebus. Slightly hazy orange, almost no head. Smell hops, banana and sweet. Taste sweet lightly bitter, lightly hoppy and banana. Decent carbo and body.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear amber with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, very yeasty (baking yeasty) and moderate hoppy - grapefruit. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 110711
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours cloudy amber with a white head. Aroma is malt, citrus, grapefruit and pine. Flavour is caramel, citrus, grapefruit, peach and pine.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sampled at Copenhagen Beer Festival 2011. Pours an unclear and amber beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is malt and hops with citrus and grass. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is dry with bitterness. Overall a good beer.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sampler at CBF 2011-06-28. From bottle. Clear golden with a beige, creamy head leaving good lacing. American hops aromatic characteristics like apricot and citrus along with some malts. Sweet and bitter flavors. Medium to full body. Juicy with a dry, bitter finish with malts still present.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Der amrikanische Hopfen ist schon im Geruch dominierend, insgesamt wurden 5 verschiedene Hopfensorten benutzt.
Bedeckt hopfiger Antrunk, milder als gedacht. Zwar ist das Bier stark hopfenlastig, zumindest untertönig ist aber auch eine deutliche Malznote offensichtlich. Der Hopfen ist aromatisch, wirkt aber im vorderen Mittelteil manchmal etwas schlaff und kann sich erst im weiteren Verlauf behaupten. Dabei scheinen die verschiedenen Hopfensorten mit ihren Eigenschaften gut zueinander zu passen, sie ergänzen sich, sind aber trotzdem zum Teil unterscheidbar. Im Abgang malziger, der Hopfen agiert typischer und lässt das Bier äußerst frisch wirken. Gelungenes IPA!
Test vom 1.10.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 7,11,11,12,8,11 - 10,60
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
bottle from kihoskh.
hazy orange, smooth large offwhite head.
sweet aroma, flowers, candy, bubblegum, exotic fruits. sweet malts. complex hops aroma with many different aroma notes.
flavor is sweet flowery, bubblegum, grapefruit and fruit peel bitterness, very sweet hoppy, also very bitter hoppy, gets a bit cloying, sweet malty note too. A very different IPA with loads of bitterness, that is balanced more by bubblegum and sweet flowery notes than the usual grapefruit, pine and perhaps exotic fruits. Personally i find it too sweet, nothing that elegantly matches the high bitterness.
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