Easy Tiger
Lamplighter Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
6.75
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A 100% Brett-fermented IPA hopped with Amarillo and El Dorado. Easy Tiger possesses a more hop-forward profile than our other Brett-based offerings: complex, fruity, tropical flavors of grilled pineapple and black pepper quickly combine with earthy, dank flavors from the wild yeast. The beer takes it name from a craft beer bar in Austin, Texas, where the vision for Lamplighter’s funky and tasty beers was first realized. Welcome to the jungle…Tasting Notes: Mango, Pineapple, Savory
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours dark ish orange with a small white head. Notes of brett, stale hops, light caramel malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
EBF 2018: looks like golden haze with a white head. Aroma is bretty funk and fruitiness. Taste is slightly bitter. Funky brett. Earthy. Good.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2018
at 19:14
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Hazy. Light beige, earthy, fruity, a weird muddled note, sweet, phenolic. Not much brett.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2017
at 14:06
8/10
Tried
on 05 Oct 2017
at 18:46
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 2/12/17.
Deep bronze-golden with some copper notes, a good clarity (very light haze) and a white head that shows moderate retention.
Juicy and with mild Brett augmenting instead of dominating the beer, the nose takes on a very fruity, tropical character that shows honey underlying the bright pineapple, mango, lime and very light pine. Some of the 100% brett primary beers I’ve had have been starkly dry, overly phenolic (heavy, heavy white/black pepper) and quite muted, overall. Not so here and this comes off much more like an IPA spiked with Brett at bottling/secondary.
In the mouth it’s dry and juicy, with light bread and honey balancing the pineapple and sweet mango notes from both hop and yeast. Low-to-medium carbonation could use a bit of a boost/tightening, but that’s my only real complaint here. Otherwise, a juicy, tropical, bright, malty IPA that dries out reasonably well on the end. Very low bitterness, no alcohol or flaw.
Deep bronze-golden with some copper notes, a good clarity (very light haze) and a white head that shows moderate retention.
Juicy and with mild Brett augmenting instead of dominating the beer, the nose takes on a very fruity, tropical character that shows honey underlying the bright pineapple, mango, lime and very light pine. Some of the 100% brett primary beers I’ve had have been starkly dry, overly phenolic (heavy, heavy white/black pepper) and quite muted, overall. Not so here and this comes off much more like an IPA spiked with Brett at bottling/secondary.
In the mouth it’s dry and juicy, with light bread and honey balancing the pineapple and sweet mango notes from both hop and yeast. Low-to-medium carbonation could use a bit of a boost/tightening, but that’s my only real complaint here. Otherwise, a juicy, tropical, bright, malty IPA that dries out reasonably well on the end. Very low bitterness, no alcohol or flaw.
Tried
on 05 Apr 2017
at 11:14
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[2/1/17] Draught at Lamplighter Brewing Company in Cambridge. Cloudy yellow. Great aroma, bretty, with juicy fruity hops. Dry flavor, bretty, with moderately bitter fruity hops. Medium-bodied.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2017
at 07:28