Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
Backcountry Brewing in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Field House BrewingIPA - West Coast Regular
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Score
6.53
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They call me the Hiphopopotamus
Brews that flow like the Stawamus
Superdelic poppin your esophagus
Rockin this Squam-tropolis I'm not
A large brewery dwelling mammal
Mixing Nelson and Motueka into
This preposterous hypothesis did
John tell you that perchance?
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Poured from 473mL can. Chill hazed blonde gold with small white head. Aroma has melon hops and light biscuit malt. Taste definitely has some light diacetyl, fairly crisp, mild melon and pine hops. The NZ vs WC hops clash a bit and the diacetyl brings it down another notch. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
473mL can, pours a cloudy pale golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma has gentle hop tang from the NZ hops, along with subtle tropical fruitiness, and some citrus – doesn’t smell particularly WC-like or that NZ hop prominent. There's also some very feint diacetyl hiding in the back that I thought I might be hallucinating. Flavour is lightly bitter, with citrusy hops, a touch of tanginess (OK, from the NZ hops, especially since I’m confirmation biased to detect them), and a crisp biscuity malt finish. Then there's the diacetyl again. Not as vibrantly NZ-like as I hoped for, nor as assertively WC-like. The faint diacetyl also brings this down a notch. It could be good, but isn't quite.