Leo v. Ursus #1: Fortem
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Special Out of Production|
Score
7.71
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Fortem is a new-age imperial IPA that draws upon a range of influences, all while exhibiting DNA from our own forays into the IPA style. As such, it blends newer hop varieties from the Pacific Northwest and Hallertau, Germany along with pale malt, wheat malt and flaked oats for a full body and rounded mouthfeel. Fortem has been left unfiltered for a full hop impact.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16oz can picked up at Total Wine in LV
Pours cloudy light golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma of citrus, fruity, mild malts, grains and tea. Flavor of grapefruit, grains, fruity, yeast and zesty
Tasty
Pours cloudy light golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma of citrus, fruity, mild malts, grains and tea. Flavor of grapefruit, grains, fruity, yeast and zesty
Tasty
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2017
at 20:40
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Fantastic beer! Super juicy almost more sweet than bitter but has a nice bitter finish fantastic aroma
Tried
on 19 May 2017
at 18:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Victoria Gastropub. Clear golden with big white head. Aroma is grapefruit hops, medium body, well carbonation, and good small-bubble lacing. Taste is rich grapefruit hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 May 2017
at 19:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours deep gold into a shaker. White head with good retention recedes to skim surface. Resin and caramel aromas. Soft with orange citrus and resin front to back. Warming pith burn in the finish.
Tried
on 14 May 2017
at 19:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On draft in a tulip glass at Cask Republic in New Haven, CT. Appearance is light brown with mild sparkle, finger-width head, mild lacing. Aroma is sweet tropical fruit, citrus, balanced with earthy resin bitterness. Taste follows aroma. Palate medium bodied, thick texture, soft carbonation, finish as taste/aroma. Overall, consistent with top tasty current DIPA’s. Not ground breaking or terribly unique but a nice representative of the top of the class right now.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 May 2017
at 18:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Hughies. Pours a cloudy yellow gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is citrus, bubblegum, earth. Medium body, earth, pine, bubblegum, light bitterness, good.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 May 2017
at 17:44
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Pours slightly cloudy golden with large foamy off-white head, faint citrus aroma, low carbonation, medium bitter grapefruit taste, smooth body, longish medium bitter grapefruit finish. Very good West Coast brew.
Tried
from Can
on 10 May 2017
at 13:05
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 ounce can. Hazy honey gold color is topped by a massive foamy beige head that leaves behind exceptional clinging lace. Sweet perfumy tropical fruit nose hints at pine needles. Bittersweet toasted malt flavor has notes of spicy bitter hops early on. Melon, apricot, mango, mint and tangerine emerge. Warming alcohol in middle. Delicious spicy citrus hops in finish. A very good IIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 08 May 2017
at 22:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from can dated 3/24/17 thanks AirforceHops nice golden color with a thin white head. Mango tangerine grass bread malt in the nose. Taste is orange light sweet malt dank resinous pine all balanced. Well crafted. Impressed with Firestone. Kudos.
Tried
from Can
on 08 May 2017
at 20:08
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can at home. Semi-hazy golden pour with a thin white head. Notes of unripe pineaple, papaya, mango, grapefruit, citrus, overripe apple, herbal hops, honey. Plenty of simcoe, mosaic and citra in this beer, right up my alley. Medium body, smooth, oily texture with a nice medium carbonation. It feels like a hybrid between a west coast IPA (mouthfeel, texture, bitterness) and a NEIPA (hop profile). Definitely something I’d love to drink more often. --- Beer merged from original tick of Firestone Walker Leo v. Ursus #1: Fortem on 29 Apr 2017 at 17:09 - Score: 8. Original review text: Simcoe, mosaic, citra - my favourite hop combo. Thank you Ryan C. !
Tried
from Can
on 30 Apr 2017
at 01:19