3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
330 ml bottle. Pours a hazy yellow/gold with medium head and lots of carbonation. Aromas of dough, citrus, hay, and malts. Flavors of spruce/pine, biscuits, and a funky fruitiness. Long bitter finish.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Keg at Craft. Amber coloured with creamy Holden head. Aroma is tangerine, something slightly vegetable, bit of tropical fruit. Taste is nice. Quite crisp, bit of tomato ketchup bizarrely, some grain, bit of tropical fruit. Nice but bit weird. Seems a bit too strong.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Keg at Craft Beer Co, Islington, London. A hazy golden/amber coloured pour with a decent white head on top. Hoppy, tropical fruit, pine aroma. Tastes hoppy, tropical/citrus fruit, pine, complex and delicious. I like Evil Twin.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Craft Beer Co, London. Somewhat hazy golden beer with a small but lasting offwhite head. Fruity hoppy aroma, pine apples, peach, grapes, berries, bitter hops, lemongrass, some hay. Hoppy fruity flavor, pine apple, minerals, berries, metal notes, hay, biscuits, floral notes, salty, some pears and citrus.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Keg in Craft Beer Co. Cloud bright amber, bubbley white head. Nice looking beer. Nose is very nice hit of mango, citrous fruits, toasty bread, caramel, pine. Pungent nose. Taste is strong citrous lemon and lime, caramel, toasty male grain, bit of new trainers smell/taste, pine.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap at Craft Clerkenwell - 21/12/12.
Lightly hazed mid golden with a decent white head.
Nose is bitter hops, pine, tropical fruit notes, grapefruit.
Taste comprises hops, pine, bitter tropical fruit notes, grass, grapefruit.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, bitter sweet in the finish.
Decent!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Keg@craft beer co.
Hazy light amber with fine white head.Definite grapey winey nose, more reminiscent of ns than motueka with some lime sherbert and sweet malt. Fairly high carbonation, fantastic nz bitterness with grapefruit and kiwi. A long juicy finish with tongue numbing bitterness but also fairly sweet.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
A - Hazy golden-orange with a finger of frothy white head. Fades fairly slowly.
S - Grapefruit, tropical, citrus, light pine hops, pilsner malts, sweet grains, lager yeast esters.
T - Grapefruit, pineapple, tropical, citrus, orange, pine, floral hops, some bitterness, pilsner malts and some sweet grains, bit of lager yeast.
M - Medium bodied moderate carbonation. Smooth dry, bitter, lightly sweet.
D - Great Imperial Pilsner. Good hop profile and great overall balance.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Poured a hazy golden color with an average to large frothy white head that was lasting and produced excellent lacing. Good moderate to heavy citrus hop and small malt aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth dry slick texture and soft carbonation. Moderate to heavy citrus bittersweet flavor with with a moderate to heavy bittersweet finish of moderate to long duration. This is a solid beer.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled (thanks Papsoe!). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, some nectar and grass along with mild caramel notes. Flavour is fruity, quite bitter, yet balanced quite sweet malty notes with nice floral notes.
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