Wishbone Session Double IPA
Shmaltz Brewing Company in Troy, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.78
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Wishbone pours a clear, bright gold with a fluffy white head and light, sticky lacing throughout the glass. Wishbone’s nose boasts tropical citrus notes of pineapple, lychee and brilliant pear accented by a light pine resin. Wishbone offers a medium mouthfeel with big, sweet hops balanced by a bready finish offered by mostly pale malt with a touch of Brewer’s Oats, Maris Otter and Victory to add just enough backbone to support the intense hop quantities. With an aroma and taste more sessionable than it’s 8% ABV body lets on, Wishbone: This Bone’s For You!
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours deep gold into a shaker. Off-white head with good retention recedes leaving slight sheets. Sourdough and earthy caramel aromas. Medium bodied with hot caramel and sweet earthy toast upfront turning a rancid lasting earth finish. Session double IPA is an oxymoron - and this one is way too hot for a session....
Tried
on 23 Aug 2015
at 16:25
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
cloudy hefe looking. smell is bright ipa hops. big strong rude nahsty nehllie, bahbie. the extra h is fer hops galore. thick and mouth coating. bitter nasty whew. whohhhhh. yes so much hop attitude it almost comes across as high alky volatile double fuming example but I figure its less than 5%? hheheh no wahy - so terribly nasty on style. now I know you need not add alky to get yer IIPA KICKER+ somebody git me a cheap pale lager for a rinse. pretty rude fer sure. i don’t understand, drinking a rude taste to not catch a buzz? oh, now somebody told me it really is 8%? now I think I’m getting dizzy? wty
Tried
on 23 Aug 2015
at 12:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Yardhouse SLP. Pours a near clear orangish yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of citrus with a bit of resin and a strong sweet grain backbone. Flavor combines resin and bitter citrus with a sweet grain backbone and a hint of flora.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jul 2015
at 09:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Pour is a hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is a sweet butterscotch malt with some fruity melon like hops. Flavor is at first a heavy malt. Not overly sweet but the malts are noticeable. Hops are here but are more of a mellow fruit and this is not very bitter. It’s ok. Another IPA where the malt far outweighs the hop presence. If you are going to make a IIPA I expect it to be hopped crazily and this is not.
Tried
on 18 Jul 2015
at 17:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Earthy herbal orange malt and orange peel aroma. Hazy golden yellow with small head. Sweet earthy orange malt and moderately bitter grapefruit peel flavor. An 8% session beer - what will they think of next.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2015
at 22:12
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle: Pours clear, bright amber with a thin off-white head. Caramel, sweet fruit aroma. Taste is strong floral hops, orange malt, caramel malt. Sweet fruit, followed by a big, leafy, floral bitter. Not as heavy as expected, but I’m still not sure about the "sessionability" it claims.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2015
at 17:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz. bottle, pours a hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of resinous hops, medium pine, light herbal quality, and bready caramel malt. Flavour is really wonderfully balanced, with loads of resinous hops, light pine, and bready caramel malt. Doesn't strike me as a "session" [double] IPA in any way, which is a plus for me. Excellent stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2015
at 23:27
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at Tap NY 2015, 4/25/15
One of my favorites of Tap this year. Really nice, hop forward aroma. Citrus/pine. Nice flavor as well. Orange in color. I'm a fan of the Session DIPA joke as well. This is quite nice. I'd buy this is I spotted it in stores.
One of my favorites of Tap this year. Really nice, hop forward aroma. Citrus/pine. Nice flavor as well. Orange in color. I'm a fan of the Session DIPA joke as well. This is quite nice. I'd buy this is I spotted it in stores.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jun 2015
at 12:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 4/19/2015. Pours crystal clear golden orange color with a 2 finger dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, mango, pear, lemon zest, orange peel, pine, light homey, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great complexity of citrus/tropical hops and moderate pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, mango, pear, lemon zest, orange peel, pine, light honey, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Large amount of pine/citrus rind bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, mango, lemon/orange peel, pine, light honey, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bright citrus/tropical/piney hops and light-moderate pale malt sweetness; with a nice malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, resinous/sticky, and slightly creamy mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a slight warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice DIPA style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of bright citrus/tropical/piney hops and light-moderate pale malt sweetness; and very smooth to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2015
at 21:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from a mix-pack from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours brassy gold with a slight off-white head that was transient. Aroma is near dank, and then there’s a lot of mixed fruit. Inhale this and pass out. Hop wise. Arguably full bodied. Hop burn on the tongue. Flavor is fruit, citrus, mild caramel, and lots and lots of hop. Lots and lots of hop. Maybe this could be used as a food preservative. Finish is very light malt and a whole bunch of, it makes no sense, sweet hops. Meanwhile the bitter hop burn rolls on. Damn, but this is a revelation!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2015
at 20:45