Lush Orchestration
Belleflower Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Rotating|
Score
7.41
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned 12/14/26, drunk 3/22/26. From tfontana. Thanks, Tom!
Wuh-oh! Is that a big ol' stick of butter I smell?? Hmmm, interesting. Either a canning line infection or just cool-pool hop infection. Either way, it doesn't smell all that offensive, though it does dominate the hops. I get some cherry from the Enigma and a bit of gentle white wine (also Enigma). No big spice/blueberry/wood/pine from the Mosaic or Simcoe. Ample malts show soft white bread and moderate honey to easily balance.
Buttery in the flavor, as well. Again, not ruinously-so, but it certainly puts a damper on the bright hop character. It's a shame because the Engima is phenomenally-well-done here. Big cherry, white wine, mineral and lush greenery. An afterthought of spice from the Mosaic but I don't get much of it or the Simcoe. Cracker, biscuit, light honey from the well-attenuated malt. Not gonna read too much in to the diacetyl here. It's an older can and I'm assuming it's just a large amount of non-boiled hops eventually causing a bit of a refermentation. It happens. The beer itself, otherwise, is incredibly well-done. That's the best Enigma I've had in a while.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can (12/14/25) from The City, Seabrook. Deeply hazy yellow, light sparkle, thin head with good retention, soapy lacing. Aroma is citrus, stone fruit, hint of herb. Taste is melon, mango, stone fruit. Smooth, frothy texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Nice and juicy.
CLW (17000) reviewed Lush Orchestration from Belleflower Brewing Company 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
16 oz. can. Hazy pale yellow appearance. Aroma shows mango, tangerine, bready malt. Play versus another edition of some grapefruit. Bold amount of juicy fruit character. Prototypical New England IPA.