Karma Citra
Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA Regular|
Score
7.40
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(tap) hazy orange golden colour with a small white head; aroma of tropical fruit, honey; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish; slightly oily palate; more flavorful and aromatic than some of competition’s imperial IPAs
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours an almost clean golden-amber colour with a big warm cap, great retention and thick creamy lace. Beautiful fresh citrus zest aromas showing some grapefruit, orange and grass. Hints of caramel and cereal malts in the background. This base is slightly stronger in the mouth, blended by the citra hops giving a sharp dry finish, but then leading into a fresh grassy mild aftertaste. Seems like Belgian yeast get things together. This is a great well-balanced IPA with fresh citrusy hops that goes down smoothly. Would definitely have again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bouteille 660ml, gracieuseté de msjpearson, Thanks Mike! Couleur jaune-orangé trouble, mousse blanc cassé majestueuse laissant une dentelle éparse. Arôme d’agrumes, citron, houblon résineux, malt, touche d’ananas. Goût de houblon résineux, avalanche agrumes, malt, amertume toute en longueur. Carbonatation moyenne, corps moyen.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle: Poured a nice clear bright yellow color ale with a large pure white foamy head with good retention and excellent lacing. Aroma of huge floral hoppy notes of citrus with some leafy notes. Taste is dominated by the leafy and citrus hoppy notes with limited bitterness and some residual sugar notes clearly identifiable. Body is light with good carbonation. I really enjoyed this beer and love the aromatics and the balancing of the bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
I know I’m that last of the folks I follow (whether they know I’m lurking or not) to rate this. (Except DerWeg, how is that possible? And oh ya I’m following you.) That’s because every other beer seems to be an IPA, (and every fourth IPA seems to be from Great Lakes) and I’m getting tired of the hops war. Mostly because there seemed to be no balance. Well this beer has balance. It knows what it is. A citrusy fruity hop beer that doesn’t air pump the breaks with bittering, or harsh resiny flavours. Overall a very nice beer, you should try it. That’s it. If you’re looking for the details, check out Freaky_tiki’s review. It tells it well. -Squishiness.
Erzengel (18514) reviewed Karma Citra from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanks to cfrancis for this great brew! The nose is great hoppy-floral. The beer starts smooth-floral. Slightly sweetish, nice floral hops with a smooth bitterness lying over the body. Grain, even cookie-dough, fresh citrus-hops. The aftertaste is long, fresh, floral-citrus with a smooth slightly yeasty background. Nice!
mcberko (47456) reviewed Karma Citra from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
650mL bottle, sent from wilco (thanks a lot, Mike), pours a cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Nose is full of piney and citrus hops, a noticeable astringency, and a thin crackery malt backing. Flavour is a piney and citrus hop blast, with medium astringency, and a thin but sufficient crackery malt backing. Very hoppy, dry and highly drinkable. Exactly how I like my IPAs. Wonderful stuff.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from the LCBO. Hazy pale orange-amber with a generous fluffy white head that fades slowly and leaves great lace. Nose is loaded with resinous pine, citrus and floral hops. Just sweet enough in the start to balance the huge citrus bitterness in the middle and end. Medium slick mouth and a dry chewy finish. Need to pick up more before they are all gone...
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Karma Citra from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Smells citrusy and a little malty. Lots of citra hops. Tried this right after the beirgotter hopacalypse and I found that onea little better. Still, this is nice and fruity, has good orange pour and great lacing. Taste is bitter. Palate pretty good. On tap at volos. Great head and lacing I forgot to mention last time I tried tried this. Nicer beer this time as well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(On draught at Bryden’s, Toronto, June 2012) Pours a clear golden amber with a substantial white head that faded quickly but left lacing. Aroma of grapefruit zest, pit fruit, grass, a relatively light biscuity pale malt note. Flavour leads with citrus rind, slight juiciness, green grassy hops with very faint pine, caramel malt is very restrained. Limited sweetness, astringent early with dry and quite strongly bitter hops on the finish. Smooth, big hop character but still relatively delicate with the limited contribution from malt and lack of resiny notes. Medium-bodied, somewhat high on carbonation, but easy-drinking and very flavourful with good balance. A tasty thirst-quencher of an IPA.