Smash Project #2 - Maris Otter Malt/Single Hop Mosaic
Long Trail Brewing Company in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.90
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Brewed with a single malt and a single hop to showcase the characteristics of each ingredient. Maris Otter, a classic English malt, delivers distinct nutty and biscuity notes while Mosaic hops impart an assemblage of tropical fruit, citrus, pine and herbal characteristics.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From a can, Golden orange color a small tight head. Aroma is great. straight up mosaic. little bit of mango and peach with a nice white grape. Crisp up front mouthfeel with an earthy caramel and ginger snap cookie finish. mosaic adds a juicy tropical note throughout but the marries otter is just not a fun single malt.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2015
at 19:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Bert’s Mostly clear deep golden color with a small bubbly white head. Light bready maltiness with a hint of nut. Earthy resinous hoppiness with hints of tropical fruit. Nice showcase of malt and hop character.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2015
at 18:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a burnt orange color with a light transparency about it. Carbonation could be seen through a semi-transparent body. A one and a half finger white foamy to bubbly head started and dissipated at the expected pace (moderate).
The smell had the sweet herbal English-esque malt up front, light grassiness. As it warms, light nutty/biscuit-ness from the malt opens up into a light citrus to tropical fruity hops.
The taste was mainly sweet with a light herbal to tropical fruity to grassy hoppiness melding into the sweet English malt, (soapy, but not too much).
Lingering soapy aftertaste bleeds into a dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt good as it didn’t displace too much of the bitterness. Harshness from the bitterness felt really nice.
Overall, I’m looking at this as an English IPA and it more than enough fits that style. Don’t ask yourself too many questions and just realize that Long Trail did a SMaSH towards the English side of the IPA spectrum and they did a great job.
The appearance was a burnt orange color with a light transparency about it. Carbonation could be seen through a semi-transparent body. A one and a half finger white foamy to bubbly head started and dissipated at the expected pace (moderate).
The smell had the sweet herbal English-esque malt up front, light grassiness. As it warms, light nutty/biscuit-ness from the malt opens up into a light citrus to tropical fruity hops.
The taste was mainly sweet with a light herbal to tropical fruity to grassy hoppiness melding into the sweet English malt, (soapy, but not too much).
Lingering soapy aftertaste bleeds into a dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt good as it didn’t displace too much of the bitterness. Harshness from the bitterness felt really nice.
Overall, I’m looking at this as an English IPA and it more than enough fits that style. Don’t ask yourself too many questions and just realize that Long Trail did a SMaSH towards the English side of the IPA spectrum and they did a great job.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2015
at 07:26