Craigerator (Batch 2+)
Night Shift Brewing in Everett, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.74
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Jow (8309) reviewed Craigerator (Batch 2+) from Night Shift Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
4 pack from local market. Cloudy yellow and few fingers worth of sudsy. Nose is tropical and melon. Tastes of mango, pineapple, grassy, honey dew, biscuit dough. Chewy mouthfeel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can, from Cambridge Wine, Medford, ME. Pours extremely hazy bright yellow with foamy off-white head, mango-citrus aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter unripe mango-lemon taste, pineapple flavor, thin body, long bitter finish. Good flavors.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Craigerator (Batch 2+) from Night Shift Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Can drunk 8/31/18.
Heavily hazy, maize-peach-golden. White head atop is medium-sized, somewhat dense and recedes slowly to a ring.
Big mango aromas are juicy, soft and lovely. Strong yeast alongside it adding heavy fruity ester and bubble gum. Strong nectarine, pineapple, papaya - in short, a big tropical fruit salad here with a huge yeast backing and biscuity, crackery malts yielding low honey/sweetness. It's mostly clean, albeit for the heavy yeastiness that seems to add some light corn/popcorn and strong nuttiness on the very end. A hint of pine and grapefruit, with strong lime notes emerging with warming. No alcohol noted.
In the mouth it's very soft, with slick textures from the yeast. Very "full" and creamy with moderate, tight carbonation, biscuity malts and nutty, substantial yeast particulate. The mango-lime-pineapple character is lovely, lightly juicy and showing little/no resin or bitterness. However, a strong off-note, almost certainly yeast-derived, is present which shows up strongly on the finish and severely cuts in to the hop brightness and overall flavor. Difficult to describe exactly but perhaps a touch metallic, a touch rancid meat, even slight popcorn, though not as intense or clear as any of those sound. Doesn't ruin the beer, but it certainly strongly detracts. Attenuation is strong and no alcohol is noted.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Craigerator (Batch 2+) from Night Shift Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Keg at the brewery taproom. Pours murky gold with a soft, fluffy white head. Moderately sweet, some pulpy citrus fruits, bitter orange rind, melon, pale bread. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Alright finish, tangerine rind, dry pale malts. Fair.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Poured from can dated 3/5/18 hazy pineapple with a thin white head. Aroma is light citrus floral hops amd pine. Taste is astringent bitterness that lingers past the finish. Needs more citrus to balance. This is not the same beer as version 1. What changed?
CLW (16859) reviewed Craigerator (Batch 2+) from Night Shift Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
16 oz. can shared by blind tasting with Chalumeaux in a four IPA blind taste test. 3-5-18 on the can date. Aroma is more subdued and shows mild fruit, maybe peach, and yeast. Flavor is watered orange juice, critic acid, and ends on a harsh bitterness. Not real good at all. And after looking why is this a new entry ClarVV.?? Same recipe, ummmm no...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
From can thanks to Thomas!! Hazy pale yellow color with white head. Hoppy and malty aroma, floral, grass, citrusy fruity, light tropical fruits, some wheat, something like cold fat pork meat smell!!! Sweet and bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.