Little Ravens Imperial IPA

From a 330ml bottle on 20/2/2018. Pours a slightly cloudy golden with almost no head. The nose is a bit odd - a combo of citrus fruit and minerals, with a hint of honey. It's a bit odd flavour wise too. A dash of bready malt followed by a fairly strong citrus sweet/sour, with orange, lime and lemon. But the sweetness well and truly prevails and is a bit cloying - almost reminds me of cordial. Notwithstanding the claim on the label, it doesn't taste very hoppy and the 10% is a bit of surprise. Most average standard IPAs would deliver more hop punch than this. The texture is a bit syrupy and the carbonation soft. All up, pretty disappointing. It lacks cohesion and balance, and is probably one of the weakest Aussie DIPAs I've sampled.

Bottle. Can't quite read the day, but bottled this month. Translucent gold with a modest white head. 3 Aroma of grapefruit, lime, passionfruit. Pretty light bodied for 10%. Carbonation is low. Intense citrus punch, some tropical notes underneath then after a while there's a very little gentle bread (surely the malt should have a speaking part in a 10% ABV beer). Barely any sweetness. Not all that much bitterness. Alcohol is just on the cusp of overt. Very tasty indeed.