Do You Even Zest?!
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.11
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can 355ml @ Work
Pours murky golden with s white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, grape and tropical fruity. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long citrus, tropical and grapefruit finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can 12fl.oz. @ [ Højbjerg Tasting ] - Saxo House, Højbjerg - Aarhus, Denmark.
[ As Crooked Stave Do You Even Zest?! ].
ABV: 7.5%. Unclear - hazy medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, pine, citrus, zesty, fruity hops, grapefruit. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, zesty, pine, woody, citrus - grapefruit, dry, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20200111]
7-3-8-3-16
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours hazy pear into a shaker. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving trailing sheets. Mango and pineapple aromas. Soft with white grape, mango and passion fruit upfront turning to dry lasting finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Average light bitter finish..Oily palate
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can @Højbjerg Tasting. Cloudy yellow, white froth. Aroma has pine, citrus, citrus peel. Juicy, fluffy mouthfeel. Citrusy, malty, piney flavour. Good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can, 7.5%. Hazy yellow with medium off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hop, citrus and grapefruit. Flavour is malt, fruit, hop, grapefruit, pine, medium sweet and medium bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can @ Højbjerg tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are rich grapefruit, flowers, hops, malt and has a nice long sour finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can @ Saxo tasting. Unclear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - citrus and fruity. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter finish. 110120
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
Come on, if I want to be really bitter, I need an alky level to match. At 7.5% I'm not expecting much kick in this $3 can from vintage. Seems to have a lot of foam head for a double. Smell is mild hint of volatile hop perfume. The odor carries across the room after you pop the can. Milkshake style visually. Big bitter strong hit but not that if a double viscous IPA. Yes, even has some cutting co2 present on the palate for a change, quite odd for an IPA. Probably comes across more like a stronger bubbly APA. Perhaps should be put back in the NEIPA category. JMHO. If this is a double or imperial IPA, I'd say its one of the better ones I've done, and that aint a good thing for IPA lovers, heheheh. Finishes a little rubbery or veggie-like, somewhat like the bitterness of an over hopped session IPA.