Four Seasons - Spring (2025)
Hawkers Beer in Reservoir, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA - Imperial / Double Series|
Score
7.09
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Spring is the season of new beginnings, warming weather, and the unfettered joy of wearing short sleeves outside again. Hopped with a generous helping of Krush, it’s a medley of citrus, bramble, and stone fruit on the gleeful, unrestrained canvas of a Double West Coast IPA.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
From a 440ml can on 24/9/2025. Pours a clear deepish golden with a medium head. The nose is light and citrussy with a bit of toast in the mix. Tastes relatively sweet, with orange and some light berry notes, against a bready/toasty malt background. Not super bitter, but there's enough pine and resin in there to satisfy. There is a touch of booze to it that hints at the 9 per cent but it's a bit too easy to down. Has a slightly oily palate with moderate carbonation. It's very enjoyable, if just lacking both the malt and hop character of the better US-made big WC IPAs.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can. Just misted pale amber with a good cm of white head that lasts OK. Floaty pink grapefruit aroma with some berries and weeds, light bread. Fairly sweet with lots of berries, straightforward bready malt. Citrus, weeds and some pine needles towards an end that perhaps doesn't snap as much as I'd like. Just on the border of dangerously drinkable/ doesn't justify its strength.