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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9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Can from Whole Foods Market Fair Lakes Aroma: citrus, cereal, tropical fruits Appearance: clear golden with a white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, sticky, average carbonation, long finish, Tasty
Tried
from Can
on 25 Apr 2017
at 13:08
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can. Color is a hazy golden, bubbly off white head, spider web lacing. Aroma of mild grass, mellow tropical fruit, pale malts. Flavor is the same mild grass and tropical hints. Pretty good malt backbone with a mellow bitterness. Medium body. The alcohol is only lightly noticed.
A very nice shelf beer that nobody has to stand in line for. As the beer scene in New England gets more crazy, I love just being able to walk into a beer store and get a Quality, easily accessible Imperial IPA right off the shelf.
A very nice shelf beer that nobody has to stand in line for. As the beer scene in New England gets more crazy, I love just being able to walk into a beer store and get a Quality, easily accessible Imperial IPA right off the shelf.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Apr 2017
at 20:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint can aliased as Leo v. Ursus. Bright golden pour with a mountain of pillowy head. Sweet and potent aroma is full of hoppy dankness and citrus, a little spicy. Full of hoppy flavor, smooth, moderately bitter, but sweet enough to balance. Love the pint can.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2017
at 11:03
6/10
Good, solid beer. Nothing earth shattering.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Apr 2017
at 20:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Shepherd and Knucklehead, Hoboken, 4/20/17. Unclear orange color, nice, frothy, off-white head and some fairly heavy lacing. Resiny hops, grains, pale malt. Grapefruit rind. Drinks fairly bitter, with an average carbonation, and a long, dry close. Well made, and seems apropo on this particular date.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Apr 2017
at 15:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft Taproom (Charlottesville). Slightly hazy golden with a lacing white head. Aroma is grapefruit and lemon peels, some pine. Flavor is pine, cat piss, juicy grapefruit, lemon peel, minor grass in the end. Nice effort.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Apr 2017
at 16:56
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Tap & Bottle, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out dank, piney hops, some weed and biscuity malt to back. Flavour is along the same lines, with piney hops and crisp crackery malt, with a slight seltzery quality. Not their best beer, but it's constructed well enough.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Apr 2017
at 11:56
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Tangerine, grapefruit, and grass nose, honey underneath. Clear amber thick sticky head. Honey, grapefruit, honeysuckle finish. Light body, soft carbonation.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2017
at 14:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(Tall can from Bottlecraft Little Italy, SD, ~1mo @ drinking time) Pours a lightly hazed dark gold with a decent sized, rather stable white head. Aroma of berries, flowers, sweet mango, tangerine, grass, sweet clean malt body. Flavour has honey sweet clean malt despite the fuller grain bill, a bit syrupy, sweet orange, mango, flowers, bitter berry sort of astringency, hop oils, and resin, bitterness is only light to moderate, quite clean overall. Medium-full, oily, softer carbonation. The low bitterness is nice, but it’s sweeter and not as juicy as I’d really like it to be.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Apr 2017
at 17:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at Jack Rose Dining Saloon. Poured a clear golden yellow color with a small off-white head. Aroma was nice citrus, juicy hop notes. Flavor was sweet, light resin notes. Touch floral and a little bit of herbal hop notes. Crisp. Tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Apr 2017
at 15:28