High Nose Wilcox X-Dry Ale
Höganäs Bryggeri in Höganäs, Skåne, Sweden 🇸🇪
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.85
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle courtesy of Pontus. Pours hazy reddish golden with a rather small frothy offwhite head that quickly dissipates without leaving much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is slightly fruity with crackers, grapefruit juice, freshly cut grass, pine needles, pine needles, leather, dry wood and hints of pure chlorophyll. Taste is bitter and tiny fruity with crackers, grapefruit rinds, orange zest, lemon zest, freshly cut grass, dry soil and hints of green peas. Mouthfeel is very dry, astringent and light bodied. Finish is bitter and tiny fruity with crackers, grapefruit rinds, lemon zest, freshly cut grass, pine needles, dry soil, leather and hints of green peas. Refreshing but rather one-dimensional.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sample at En Öl- och Whiskymässa, Gotheburg. Pours somewhat hazy golden with a tan head, no lacings. Aroma is elegant, citrus, dust, some zest. Taste is initially some fruits, some dust, hints of grass and then quickly turns really dry with a smooth, barely detectable lingering bitterness. Medium body, low to medium carbo, dry mouthfeel. A really different APA, way more dry and not so overly juicy or hoppy as the standard. Me like.