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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
2.9 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.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
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.
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.
2.6 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
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