0.9 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 2/20
All gone bad here. I suspect a suspect batch which should never have made it to market. Will rerate again once I have confidence to do so.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hazy orange colour with big white head. Bold hop flavours with touch of malt. Not a flash IPA, underwelming.
1.8 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
IPA? No.
weird pseudo-hefeweizen without wheat? yes.
something must have gone wrong here, no hops but plenty of weird esters and phenols...
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Like some others here I got the butterscotch aroma and flavours of Diacytel. Also got the banana aroma too, definietly not what I expected (or wanted). Found it to be malty, not the hoppy-hop-monster the brewers description indicates.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Banana esters on the nose. More esters in the flavour. It has a strange hoppy-banana thing going on. Kind of wheat-beer like. I have it on good authority that there was no rogue wheat beer yeasts infections in this beer and it’s supposed to taste like that. Not bad, just atypical.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle at Malthouse, first day availiable, so fresh.
Pours golden, thin white head. Aroma has a lot of sweet malt, and and earthy hop character.
The flavour is full in the mouth, a good strong lingering bitterness. Sweetish bready malt is quickly balanced with medium earthy hops.
A pretty solid IPA, just nothing amazing.
2 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 6/20
Bottle. Pours a clear amber with a fluffy white head. Oh no, diacetyl on the nose, not strong but enough to be off putting. In the mouth, the malt is all butterscotch as well. Shame, as I can just sense a good hopping and bitterness. I will give it another go to rerate.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle, purchased at Centre City New World Market. Very funky Andy Warhol-inspired label (I love it-- just because you’re green doesn’t mean that you have to be dull!). Pours a bright golden yellow with a big long-lasting head. Big citrus oil, resin, perfumy aroma. Very nice, with an intangible unique quality to it, a little limey perhaps? Fresh fruity hop flavour in abundance, mostly citrus with a little mango rind. Malts are clean but subdued. Finish is soundly bitter. Lighter mouthfeel that lends this brew some dangerous drinkability.
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