Tusk
Feral Brewing Co. in Baskerville, Western Australia, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA - Triple Regular|
Score
7.06
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First brewed 9 years ago this double IPA uses a metric shit-tonne (scientific unit of measurement) of hops, leaving you with aggressive bitterness and high hop aromatics of mango, citrus and grapefruit then finishing drier than most rocks.
Brewed out of the ethos that fresh is best. This beer is released in small batch twice a year, kegged off, delivered to venue and drunk all in the same day in WA.
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TedE (2776) reviewed Tusk from Feral Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Taster on tap at Basement Brewhouse Bankstown. Nose of fruit, earth(rocks?), funkiness and the distant dry horizon. Flat golden amber beer with thin film of suds on top. Thick oily texture, coats the mouth with piney minty goodness. Amazing. Fresh but strong. A (very) late night beer. Probably with good strong cheese.
mcberko (47797) reviewed Tusk from Feral Brewing Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at The Grain Store Beer Cafe, pours a cloudy dark orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out rich resinous hops, caramel malt and some residual candied sugar. Flavour is on the sweet side, with loads of caramel, residual candied sugar sweetness and resinous hops. Too sweet and more like a hoppy barley wine. Still, quite nice for what it is. Enjoyable slow sweet sipper.
hawthorne00 (9917) reviewed Tusk from Feral Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
[5/13] What’s going on? Tap(ped today). Hazy golden amber with a white head that lasts. Who’s on the phone? Aroma of passionfruit and other tropical fruits, pine, nectarine, orange blossoms. Bartender says feijoa: yep. Love me? Oily. Big stone fruit sweetness brushed away by strong resinous bitterness. Peaches, tropical fruit, pepper, pine. Only a little boozy, pretty dangerously quaffable. Tight, punchy palate. Finish is dry: the sweetness is there early, but the gate slams shut on it leaving zingy aromatics and just a slight touch of booze. Want me? Pretty stunning stuff. [4/17] Tap. Again a couple of hours after it was tapped, this time by coincidence. There have been a number of other good Australian IIPAs recently (I might have to stop denying that I like them) but this still stands out for me. Mind you, most of them have been in bottles. A big aromatic hop punch. It’s sweet but not cloying and the "dry even more than bitter" finish is very good. If there weren’t a little touch of booze assisting with the dryness of the finish it’d be even more impressive. [4/18] Again by chance on Tusk day @ The Local Taphouse. Perhaps the finish is a bit too pithy this time. But really lovely.