Latitude 48 Deconstructed IPA: Zeus
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Series Out of Production|
Score
6.90
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Solid IPA, a step up from my first foray into the mix-pack, the soapy East Kent Goldings bottle. Mellow yet piney, sweet with enough hoppy bitterness to keep the brew lean and tight, this bottle comes off very balanced and a fairly accessible IPA. The piney flavor never grows harsh or medicinal, allowing the malts to fade into a mildly herbal finish. Strange that, so far, I’ve liked both single hop varieties of Latitude 48 way more than the original beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Nice copper coloured body, slightly more ruby-tinted than the Hallertau varietal with two centimetres of tan head that leaves a nice lace - taller head than the Hallertau. Aroma of resin, pine, grapefruit and a touch earthy - much more caramel scent than the Hallertau as well. Medium-bodied; Assertive resin and grapefruit hops with a lot of pine and drying characteristics toward the end. Aftertaste is actually quite mild with a light bitterness from the piney hops, but not too strong at all. Overall, a bit refreshing, and stronger flavours in hops and malt compared to the Hallertau - the nose is the strongest on this one. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from the Beer Baron in Livonia, Michigan on 30-April-2011 sampled at home in Washington on 16-May-2011 in a vertical test with the Sam Adams Hallertau varietal IPA. I preferred this to the Hallertau.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours clear deep gold into a Sam glass. Off-white head with medium retention recedes to skim surface. Sweet caramel and resin aromas. Well balanced with sweet caramel and resin from front to back. Lasting Mild resin and grapefruit pith in the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Best latitude 48 so far - looks just like the others, but with weaker head - more aggressively hoppy than some of the others, which serves to temper the relativey sweet malt profile much better than the ones I’ve had so far - lots of pine in this one - quite dank - mildly acidic on the end - this and the higher bitterness makes the finish seem drier than in the others, which is welcome.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from the Arden BevMo in Sacramento, CA. Pours clear copper with a creamy/foamy 4 finger off-white head. Smells like evergreen. Med body. Flavor is like sucking pine needles - well I’ve not done that lately, but it’s very evergreen pine resin. Nice flavor. Pleasantly bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle with a best before of September 2011. CTZ time. Pours with a clear, light copper hued body with a large, bone colored off-white head. Head is resilient and there is some decent lacing left behind. Aromas are hoppy, spicy, herbal, pungent, dank, pine, tropical fruit (exaggerated as CTZ tends to do). Grassy, intense, marijuana. Super floral. Pretty much all hops, maybe a tinge of bready malt. No esters. Flavors are bitter, decently cleanly too. Lemon, citrus, light pine, grassy. Surprisingly clean hop bitterness and character. Much less fruit than I am use to with Columbus. Grassy. Light, very dry, bready, malty sweetness. Hops are a touch vegital in the mid palate. Creamy, medium to lively carbonation. Pretty dry on the palate. No astringencies. I love this hop as a major component to IPAs, but rarely as a single hop. This one pulls it off better than others, but feels a bit one dimensional (on the flavor side).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A copper orange alew ith a thin lacing off white head. A rather pungeant and pinhey hops aroma, murky and pleasant. In mouth, a grainy rye malt with grassy hops, mineral, wild and herbal, cooling menthol, nice. On tap at Boston Beer Summit, April 16 2011.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
bottle pours light amber with a thin tan head. Aroma is pine and evergreen hops, smells like the forest. Flavor is nutty malts and pine all the way. This is very nice pine bitterness leaving the finish very dry. My favorite of the bunch so far.