Bos Smash
Pulfer in Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
IPA - New England / Hazy Special|
Score
7.11
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SMASH Homebrew Competition 'best of show 2025.' it's ready to go!
'A huge shoutout to all participants! The creativity, skill, and dedication shown this year were unreal!' We couldn't agree more.
The expert jury decided that the best beer of the show was brewed by Fabijan Spralja - aka 'Fabe'. He did a great job. We just transformed his American IPA, which featured one of the iconic hops - Chinook, on a larger scale. It's delicious!
'A huge shoutout to all participants! The creativity, skill, and dedication shown this year were unreal!' We couldn't agree more.
The expert jury decided that the best beer of the show was brewed by Fabijan Spralja - aka 'Fabe'. He did a great job. We just transformed his American IPA, which featured one of the iconic hops - Chinook, on a larger scale. It's delicious!
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
500 ml can, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 6.8%. Slightly hazy golden colour, large white head. Typical aroma of Chinook hops, grapefruit and pine / resin, hints of tomcat. Flavour of malts with some caramel, bitter orange marmalade, grapefruit and resin. Fairly bitter and medium sweet throughout.
Tried
from Can
from Vinmonopolet Nettbutikk (netstore)
on 27 Apr 2026
at 20:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
0,5 l can. Pours hazy light golden with a finger of quickly dissipating white head. Some nice lacing. Aroma is hop driven, resin, pine, citruses floral and herbal notes, sweetish. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter. Flavor generally follows aroma, it's quite sweet, but not annoyingly so. Finish is very long, sweetness and pine and citrus hop flavor slowly fades and when almost gone there's a late pleasant bitter kick. Very pleasant, very drinkable and well made. Thumbs up!
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2025
at 09:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Valhalla, Zagreb Thursday 11th September 2025 during Fins walking tour of the city. Pours warm gold with a white head, refreshing, nice mouthfeel, nice furry light bitter rub across the tongue, it's very good, there are herbal touches underpinned by tropical fruit, good.
Tried
from Draft
at
Valhalla Beer Bar
on 11 Sep 2025
at 10:56
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home shared with Laura. A bit unclear yellow color, full sized white head. Aroma is lightly malts, very fruity, tropical fruity in a good way, not over the top nor overripe fruits. Balanced and inviting. Flavor is lightly malts, hops, again tropical fruit hops, decent to medium bitterness, bitter hops. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I was quite thirsty though, so I nearly downed it in seconds haha. Nice one.
Tried
on 03 Sep 2025
at 21:11
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can, 0.5l. Hazy golden pour, three finger creamy white head, good retention, lasting head, sticky lacing on the glass. Nice on the nose, citrus, topical notes, slightly herbal. Mild onion in the background.
Medium body, soft carbonation. Smooth mouthfeel and texture, soft and chewy, creamy, easily drinkable. Nicely balanced juicy bittersweet taste. Aroma of citrus, melon, pine. Creamy notes, herbal candy, caramel malt in the background. Mild onion, light spice, peppery notes. Slightly sticky. Long lasting finish, dry, sticky, lingering bitterness.
Pretty good.
Medium body, soft carbonation. Smooth mouthfeel and texture, soft and chewy, creamy, easily drinkable. Nicely balanced juicy bittersweet taste. Aroma of citrus, melon, pine. Creamy notes, herbal candy, caramel malt in the background. Mild onion, light spice, peppery notes. Slightly sticky. Long lasting finish, dry, sticky, lingering bitterness.
Pretty good.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Aug 2025
at 21:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can at Ambasada. Hazy golden body, lasting small off-white head. Sweetish aroma, watermelon, strawberry, resin soft, Simcoe in really good shape and form. Smooth, soft taste, wild strawberries galore, turning quickly into heavy resin with hints of licorice. There's a lot going on just slightly under the hood, strawberry lemon Orbit bubblegum hahah, but slightly dull, flat finish, missing some bitterness. Good one, just fails short of greatness, just sad I wasn't judging the original this year (and happy that I helped get it to the level when I wasn't terribly missed hahah). Fabe js a great homebrewer, and this is a good beer
Tried
from Can
from
Ambasada.
on 19 Aug 2025
at 17:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Utseende: Gulbrun.
Lukt: Citrus, honning.
Smak: Citrus, honning.
Skum/kullsyre: Tykt dekkende skum, heng.
Medium: Rating:8-7-7-6-7=7, Draft@100ml, ABV@6.8%, Når@2025.08.01.
Hvor: Trøndersk Matfestival 2025
Navn: BOS SMASH
Stil: IPA - NEW ENGLAND / HAZY
Bryggeri: Pulfer
Lukt: Citrus, honning.
Smak: Citrus, honning.
Skum/kullsyre: Tykt dekkende skum, heng.
Medium: Rating:8-7-7-6-7=7, Draft@100ml, ABV@6.8%, Når@2025.08.01.
Hvor: Trøndersk Matfestival 2025
Navn: BOS SMASH
Stil: IPA - NEW ENGLAND / HAZY
Bryggeri: Pulfer
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2025
at 21:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Hazy golden with a white head - Hop aroma with some fruity notes - Malt body with hop flavours that are fruity and herbal with some nice bitterness - Malt and hops goes into the finish - This was nice
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2025
at 12:51
6.5/10
On tap at Trondheim Bryggerifestival. Quite malty with a good bitterness and a gentle hop flavor. Piney. Decent, refreshing, but a bit dull. 646413 250801
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2025
at 10:05