Jumping The Shark 2017
Moon Dog Craft Brewery in Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA - Quadruple Series Out of Production|
Score
7.21
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
375ml bottle. Pours orange brown. Caramel, biscuit, strong toffee, booze, lemon, orange, calvados, grapefruit. Good body. Strong as hell but very tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
18th December 2017
T42 Christmas Bottleshare. Big thanks to Tips for the Aussie bottle hall. Hazy amber beer, good cream colour head. Smooth light palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Light malts bring a light creamy sweetness. Ripe orange and spicy orange. Light finish. Simple and ripe but pretty drinkable and the massive abv I didn't notice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared on Level 42, Christmas tasting 18/12/2017. Many thanks! A mostly clear amber coloured pour with aloose off white head. Aroma is apricot, orange, wooody sweet brown sugars, orange rind. Palate is semi sweet, mango jammy, apricot, Rought chewy reinous hop. Palate si medium sweet, modertate carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle split at L42, thanks to A Tipple, 18/12/17. Hazed golden with a decent off white cap. Nose is orange pith, light spice, caramel, toasted malts, light booze exhaust. Taste comprises citric tinged straw, fresh grass, caramel malts, light spice, biscuit, grapefruit, bitter orange. Decent enough middle of the road DIPA ... didn't really get the super high boost ... there again it was one of the last beers of the night.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at L42 – thanks to Adrian. It pours hazy amber with a medium beige head. The aroma is sweet, sweaty, bright, oily, juicy orange, marmalade and pine needle. The taste is dry, crazy bitterness, sweet marmalade, peach, resinous pine, oily, slick, boosty alcohol, spice. Medium body and average carbonation. Pretty punchy and boozy overall. Fun for a taster, but I wouldn’t be doming this shit by myself.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared in London - big thanks to Tipple. Pours mostly clear orange-gold with a frothy, white head. The nose holds plump citrus fruits, orange, pine. Medium sweet flavour with rich piney character, rindy orange, bready pale malts, marmalade. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation with fine carbonation. Warm finish, resinous, with lots of ripe citrus, some grass. Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours syrupy amber with a creamy head.Nose shows pineapple, heavy clean malt, mango, orange marmalade, caramel, piny and spicy hops and a bit of booze.Flavours include more heavy clean malt, a whack of booze, lots of pine and resinous hop notes. Finishes abrasively boozy and bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
From a 375ml bottle on 19/10/2017. The 2015 JTS was the best dessert beer and best Aussie beer I've had, and arguably the best beer of all time period. So I'm excited to try the latest iteration. Pours a slightly hazy dark golden with a medium to biggish head. The nose is fruity - fresh and stewed, and there's a hint of booze, but it's pretty muted for such a big beer. The flavour is much more intense. There's some light bread, biscuit and caramel malt in the background, but it's the fruit that dominates - peach, apricot, kumquat, and tangerine. It's sweet and tart, but also slightly spicy and peppery. The hops are big and dripping in resin.The texture is syrupy and the carbonation moderate to average. Drinks every bit of its 14%. So what's the verdict? Well, it's a decent enough and quite intense sipper, but ultimately, it fails to really excite, And at approaching thirty bucks a bottle, you need it to excite big time. I need and crave more of the 2015. Rating 3.6.
Re-rate on 22/4/2018. Enjoyed it more this time. The aroma is much more intense, with quite a bit of caramel and toffee. There is also more of a caramel malt background evident. I'm still not quite in love with it, but certainly a bit more fond.