Road Tripper
Little Bang Brewing Company in Stepney, South Australia, Australia 🇦🇺
Collab with: Collective Arts BrewingIPA - Imperial / Double Regular
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Score
7.13
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
An old fashioned WCIPA with a little something extra. Loads of pine, resin and grapefruit give way to a little caramel aroma. The taste's slightly short, but otherwise very enjoyable.
TedE (2776) reviewed Road Tripper from Little Bang Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
375ml can into pint glass. Thanks to Ratebeer and Beer Cartel. Pours a nice golden colour, very slight haze. Frothy white head, lazy streams of tiny bubbles ascend. Curtain lacing. Nose is earthy, manky, very sweet malt in the background. Medium body, flat mouthfeel. Sharply bitter early, some cloying malt later. Lingering earthy herbal finish. Alcohol burn at the end is distracting. It's OK but no world-beater.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Beercartel and #ratebeersupertasters. Amber. Biscuit & pine nose. Spicy, dry, bitter and just the sort of old school hop bomb to fend off any viral ghoulies in this apocalyptic end of days oblivion we are all staring at.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
What is the SA equivalent of Barstow? Tailem Bend maybe. Can. Clear amber with an inch of white head. Lots of bubbles. Head never less than a fat coat. Aroma of tenor register citrus, mango skin, pine, breadcrust. Sweet and then very bitter. Breadcrust, peach and kumquat sweet away by resin and bitterness. The finish is whomping but its main impact is brief. Underneath the resin the beer is clean and tasty enough. I would have liked a bit more of a top note but perhaps there wasn't the room. Went hard. --- Beer merged from original tick of (collab with) Collective Arts Road Tripper on 11 Aug 2019 at 12:36 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8. Original review text: What is the SA equivalent of Barstow? Tailem Bend maybe. Can. Clear amber with an inch of white head. Lots of bubbles. Head never less than a fat coat. Aroma of tenor register citrus, mango skin, pine, breadcrust. Sweet and then very bitter. Breadcrust, peach and kumquat sweet away by resin and bitterness. The finish is whomping but its main impact is brief. Underneath the resin the beer is clean and tasty enough. I would have liked a bit more of a top note but perhaps there wasn't the room. Went hard.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
From a 375ml can on 8/8/2019. Pours a clear golden with a to medium head. The nose features a good dash of fruit with some resiny hop notes. In the mouth, it's got a biggish caramel malt backbone, and a decent amount of citrus and stone fruit sweetness. This is met by the some of the biggest, resiny, piney, tongue coating hops I've ever encountered in a beer. It's bitter as fuck, but in a good way. The texture is slick and the carbonation moderate. Super intense but the balance is there. It may be too much for some, but this is an excellent, old school hop monster.