Latitude 48 Deconstructed IPA: Simcoe
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Series Out of Production|
Score
7.02
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The Sampler, Brooklyn tap: Pours orange with a white head. Aroma is hefty pine and a lot of grapefruit. Definitely more bitter and punchy than the Mosaic. Hoppy bitterness and pine lingers for quite a bit. Works well with the substantial malt backbone. Pretty good. So it simcoes.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Lightly catty grapefruit peel and caramel malt aroma. Golden yellow with nice head and lacing. Bitter lightly funky grapefruit peel and light biscuit malt flavor. Good - doesn’t have much of the cattiness I usually get from Simcoe.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at home in CT - picked up at Stateline. Pours clear, deep orange-gold with a frothy, off-white head. Pretty basic aroma with lightly toasted malts, slight biscuits, pine, ripe citrus. Medium sweet flavor with some berry sweetness, light honey, some grain husk, bready and lightly toasted malts, a bit of grass, orange rind. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Pretty well balanced on the finish with lightly sugary. Bready malts, more ripening citrus fruits, bitter pine and grass. Somewhat basic, and not the best expression of Simcoe hops. But it’s drinkable beer,
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle, from Deconstructed 12 pack. Pours a deep clear copper color with a thin off white head. Good sheets of lacing. Aromas of tropical fruits and pine. Taste is some serious grapefruit bitterness. There’s the sweet malt that’s in this series, but it is really no match for the Simcoe hop punch. Medium body with an intense bitterness and dry finish. My fave of the pack.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle from a Wegman’s in Buffalo, NY. - No 4 in the series of single-hopped versions of Latitude 48. Golden amber with a thin cream head; the expected piney aroma with a touch of citrus; big grapefruit taste; and a pleasant blanced finish with some spice to counter the bitterness of the grapefruit peel. Another good single hop IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16th June 2011
Clear bright amber beer. Small white head. Crisp palate, with a carbonated sting. Dry creamy malt base. Fresh and slightly pithy orange hop with a bitter trailing edge. Finishes dry and crisp. Refreshing and solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
I got the 12-pack last July and stashed it in the fridge with the idea of a video tasting comparing all six at once. Never got around to happening. Now it’s 10 months later, and I finally decide to just do two at a time. I’m comparing this to the Simcoe, both poured in Sam Adams glasses. Pour: Kicks up more foam than the EKG did, more bubble action. Same amber color and floaties, hop bits or yeast sediment, I’m not sure. One I finally get all the bottle poured, I have rocky peaks over the glass edge. Aroma: At this age, I get of medicinal smell from oxidation, my fault for not getting around to it. But that increases the perception of alcohol. Some citrus and pear in the hops. Taste: Hops still prominent in the form of bitterness. Some pine resin notes. Fuller mouthfeel when tasted one after another. Though with a few more swigs, that thicker malt texture lightens up. Still, gotta say there are enough hops involved right to the end, although by now they give a definite impression of dried hops. But I should’ve drunk these 9 months ago.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle sample at a Deconstructed tasting at Porter & Sons. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma of of fruity hops and some malt. Sweetish fruity flavor with some malt and a pleasant hoppy bitterness with some pine. Medium-bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Copper with an off-white head. Aroma is full of pine and grapefruit hops with a rusty malt background. Flavor is much the same with a decent helping of sweet malts. A solid IPA and fun way to get a handle on the Simcoe hop.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 12
Bottle. Deep amber body with fizzy, off-white head. Aroma of grapefruit, orange, pine with hints of caramel, grain. The flavor is lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and moderately bitter with a long, bitter finish. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Chewy, raw, plant-like hop taste in this one with plenty of bitterness. Taste of grapefruit rind, citrus, orange with a resiny finish. Not much subtlety to this one.