Stonehorse IPA #4: Citra
Devil's Purse Brewing Company in South Dennis, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.55
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can (7/13/21) pour. It's an opaque dark yellow with trace sparkle, white floaties in suspension and yeast at the bottom of the glass, 2-finger width white fluffy head with good retention and patchy soapy lacing. Aroma is strong lemony citrus. Taste follows aroma with late light cracker balance. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, average-to-lively carbonation and crisp finish as taste. Overall, a bit hazy for a traditional IPA and the flavor is on the juicy side but neither so strong nor varied enough to be a great NEIPA. No new ground. It's Citra. Just OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. Hazy golden beer with a cream head. Citrus aroma. Nice citrus flavor with lemon and grapefruit. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Lemon and grapefruit linger with light pine.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can, from Cambridge Wine, Medford, ME. Pours cloudy pale yellow with foamy off-white head, floating yellow precipitate, light citrus aroma, medium carbonation, mildly bitter lemon drops taste with mango-pineapple, thin, smooth body, long finish. Nice, smooth and tasty, good work despite the aesthetically unpleasing appearance.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can drunk 8/15/18.
Lightly-to-moderately hazy, bright canary-to-sunny orange. White head atop is fully diminishing to slight ring.
Nose is tangy peach-citrus with lots of unripe pineapple, light-to-moderate honey and lightly fruity yeast esters, though not big in the bubble gum department. Smells more like a traditional or hybrid IPA than a NE. Regardless of style, there's a bit too much lemon, pine and grapefruit with light resin and even some specialty malt that detracts. No alcohol or flaw, otherwise.
In the mouth it's a bit too twangy, with strong peach-papaya, heavy lemon, pine and grapefruit. Not incredibly resinous, but just lacking in any finesse or juicy/tropical notes. Perhaps too malty? Maybe too much specialty malt. That or just too much bittering. Usually don't have this problem from Citra single hop beers. Malty, borderline "thick" texture with engaging carbonation and no alcohol or flaw.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a hazy amber from a can, head dissipates quickly with no lacing. Grapefruit/orange aroma, similar flavor. Good, a little thin. Okay beer.