Jack's Abby Craft Lagers Mass Rising

Mass Rising

 

Jack's Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - India Style Rotating
Score
7.47
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 100 Ticks: 75
Cut through the haze to reveal the taste of American hops in Mass Rising, a double hoppy lager. We infuse this beer with increasing amounts of Mosaic, Simcoe, and Ekuanot hops during the brewing process to maximize flavor and challenge the expectation of what a lager can be.
 

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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sample from bottle. Golden color with a thick white head. Loaded with tropical fruits, pineapples, orange, you name it. Flavor has similar things going on, tropical fruits, slightly sweet. Ok bitterness. Very good.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Sep 2015 at 09:06

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottle 0.355l at Stadin Panimobaari, Helsinki. Colour is cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, citrus, grain, harshness, some hops and malts.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2015 at 12:24

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
(Bottle, 0.33 l - manufacturing date unreadable, at Stadin Panimobaari, 20150821) The beer poured golden and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had grass, herbalness and sweetness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were grass, sweetness, fruitiness, malts and bitterness. Afteraste was hoppy and bitter. A decent hoppy brew.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2015 at 12:23

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
The Beer Shop near Springfield: Pours hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma is fragrant hops with a good deal of tropical fruit. Taste is pretty hops. Very fruity and floral. Lightly sweet. Perfumy. Excellent.
Tried on 07 Aug 2015 at 20:46

8/10
Tried on 19 Jul 2015 at 06:10

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Dedham, 4/23/15. Hazy golden, large foamy white head. Good retention. Aroma of doughy malt, a bit of butter, spicy, grassy hops, mild apple. The taste is bitter piney, resin hops, apples, pale malt. Thin bodied, low carbonation, strong lingering bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2015 at 22:33

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at a tasting at Dancing Camel Florentin. Clear golden. Decent hoppy aroma, citric and floral. Flavor of citric hops, quite dry, with a bit of malt sweetness and nice bitterness. Medium-bodied. Could be fresher but still pleasant.
Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2015 at 09:01

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Hopfiger, etwas erhöht karbonisierter Antrunk. Geringe Süße, konstante Hopfigkeit. Schwerfällig, etwas malzig. Vollmundig hopfiger Nachgeschmack. 11/10/7/10/11/11
Tried on 18 May 2015 at 13:52

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 12fl.oz. [ As Jack’s Abby Mass Rising ].Clear light medium yellow color with a large to huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, fruity malt, grain, pale malt, moderate hoppy, grass, fruity hops. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, fruity hops, fruity malt, grassy hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150411]
Tried from Bottle on 16 May 2015 at 03:36

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottles from debut onwards, most recently Winter ’14-’15
Deep amber body is topped by a small white head, high clarity.
Fruity and citric nose has light touches of tropical fruits but is mostly full of various grapefruit notes as well as some softer floral notes on the edgges. Malt is dry, not crystal-like, thankfully and add a touch of sourdough bread to the equation. Very little sweetness. Not as much heavy pine as the ABCS but the citric notes are very heavy and only somewhat broken up by the lighter, more playful tropical fruit notes. Alcohol is well-concealed, but some light vapors do emerge with warming.
Bitter and dry, it immediately goes to work on the palate, though light caramel-like sweetness does both soften the palate and attempt to balance. It never balances out for me, especially as it warms and breathes, becoming ever more citric and heavily acidic. There are some very lovely floral and fruity notes here, but they’re heavily drowned out by all of the aggressiveness. Again, these lagers are intentionally extremely hopped and that’s fine, just not my thing. I could do one of these as a sipper, but I’ll just never understand why you’d drink something so fatiguing like this, when you could just drink an IPA with the same amount of flavor and aroma but without all of this obnoxious bitterness/acidity.
Tried from Bottle on 13 May 2015 at 16:34