Green Man IPA

Brewed by Green Man Brewery (NZ)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Dunedin, New Zealand

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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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.

Deep amber colour with minimal head and hints of carbonation. Do I smell hops? I smell citrus and passionfruit. As it warmed, it released scents of rata honey as well. The smell isn’t overt, nor easy to pick either. It started out with a blast of bitterness which stayed as a spruce astringency on the sides of my tongue. What I like: that it is a bit more subtle than an American IPA. What I don’t like: It isn’t subtle enough to be like a British IPA. Would I drink it again? Yes, but there seem to be a number of better alternatives in the IPA market in New Zealand.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

as others have noted here this is a butterscotch bomb. or diacetyl detonation. a LITTLE bit of diacetyl in a beer like this is nice, but this just gets sickly very quickly. nice looking beer (green man do appearances well- cool label too) - clear bronze and a very firm head that isn’t even disturbed when my nose brushes against it. quite highly carbed for the style. nose has huge amounts of diacetyl along with some strange strawberry and geranium esters - seems like a british yeast behaving badly. in the mouth some quality malt, and substantial bitterness, although both flail defencelessly against the butter onslaught. mysterious strawberry shortcake sort of flavour that i remember getting in some gales beers on cask in the UK. as with other green man beers i’ve had, seems like quality ingredients but some serious fermentation issues.