Mandarina Moose Grapefruit IPA
Arkose Brewery in Palmer, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.77
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Deep and slightly hazy bright copper and bronze coloured body with a very large four to five centimetre tall off-white head that stays afloat nicely and covers the beer for the full time there is something in the glass - nice! Aroma of very bitter grapefruit elements with a lot of citrus scents, some brighter hop notes and a little less of the malts, sweetness and alcohol. Medium-bodied; Strong and very bitter grapefruit flavours dominate with the peel and some lighter juice noticeable along with a good solid malt backbone, almost no sugars at all, but a bunch of bitterness throughout. Aftertaste is bitter, fairly one-dimensional with a lot of hop notes that provide some additional bitterness, but not in the same dimension as the fruits, all with a very mellow malt backbone and no sweetness. Overall, a nice and very bitter, from the grapefruit peel, beer that shows some hop bitterness, but the fruits make this nice and puckering throughout with a high refreshment value here, great for having after a long hike here in Alaska! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Brown Jug in Fairbanks, Alaska on 24-June-2021 for US$5,99 sampled after hiking in Denali National Park on 26-June-2021.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Mandarina Moose Grapefruit IPA from Arkose Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a copper color with a off white head. Aroma is citrus grapefruit. Taste is bitter grapefruit hops with a nice malty back end finish.