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.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours cloudy amber. Full nose of claasic grapefruit & grass. Full bodied palate is full of green & grapefruit hops; palte is perfectly balanced. Did I get a different batch form all the other raters? This is a really good beer.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle From Betty’s Liquor Queenstown
I guess this has aged a bit since many reviews, but I didnt notice such a huge diacetyl presence, rather a fairly meagre hop background, a pretty murky affair
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma had fruity and floral hops. Flavor was slightly sourish with floral and fruity notes. Finished dry and sourish with a bitter touch.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
50 cL bottle, courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is citrusy, peachy and slight grapefruity. Crisp hoppy and citric. Bitter and dry into the finish. Vague yoghurt note.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. A hazy dark golden beer with a huge yellowish head. The aroma has notes of citrus and hay on a light malty background. The flavor is sweet with notes of hops, lemon, and straw, leading to a lightly acidic and OK bitter finish.
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours golden with a slight haze and a small off-white head leaving a little laces. Dry, hoppy aroma - British hops in style - also some strange phenols. Medium body, dry fruitiness, tart and astringent. Seems infected, drinkable though. 010910
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Slightly hazy golden coloured body with orange highlights and a great tan head - two centimetres tall. Aroma of apricots, yeast, icing sugar, cardboard and a touch of curacao - no hops at all in the nose. Light-bodied; Sharp metallic and apricot tastes dominate with the slightest of wheat, yeast and coriander seed. Aftertaste shows a lot of nothing - some light malts, but no hops and hardly any sugars. Overall, a very big disappointment - I was waiting a while for this one and didn’t like it much at all. I sampled this 500 mL bottle purchased from the New World Grocery Store (on the East side of town) in Auckland, New Zealand on 21-August-2009 on my honeymoon, sampled at home in Washington on 10-February-2010 during Snowmaggedon #2.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Wonder if some other tasters may’ve struck a bad batch? I picked up a few bottles from the first batch, and each has been a bright fruity hop explosion to match the colourful label. However there is a butterscotch that smooths away the qualities you’d most want from a IPA. Pours well, mildly golden brew, but the bitterness and sweetness battle each other to an unfortunately weak finish. An IPA that starts well but ends too quietly.
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