Laughing Panda Green Tea IPA
Two Brothers Brewing Company in Warrenville, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.96
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The panda yells back at the manager, "Hey man, I am a PANDA! Look it up!"
The manager looks up the definition for panda: "A free-dwelling mamal of Asian origin, characterized by distinct black and white coloring. Eats shoots and leaves."
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass; no bottle dating, but was released recently. Pours moderately hazy golden orange color with a 2 finger dense white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of big orange zest, tangerine, lemon zest, pineapple, green tea, bread, light caramel, floral, grass, light pine, and herbal earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity of hop, tea, and malt notes; with good strength. Taste of tangerine, lemon zest, orange zest, green tea, floral, grass, bread, light caramel, light pine, and herbal earthiness. Light pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of citrus, citrus zest, green tea, bread, light caramel, floral, grass, light pine, and herbal earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance and complexity of hop, malt, and tea flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, lightly creamy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice spiced IPA. All around nice balance and complexity of malt, hop, and tea flavors; and very smooth to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours cloudy orange with white head. Nose and taste of citrus, grapefruit, green tea, caramel malt, spicy malt and light toasted bread. Lighter medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
tap - This bubbly golden brew is light and bitter with a certain dryness that I associate more with rye though I don’t see any mention of that as an ingredient. I don’t specifically taste the green tea. The beer goes down easily enough but was just alright to me.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 14
Draft. Golden body. Fizzy, off-white head. Strong earthy, raw plant, vegetable aroma. Notes of raw grain, tea. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Tastes better than the aroma. Tea and tannic leaf taste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sampling at the brewery. I talked to one of the guys who came up with this, and he agreed it’s hard to say what green tea should taste like in beer. Poured from a jockey box, it’s pretty cloudy, with an amber-to-orange body and a thin head. Smell has some citrusy hops; I was told it involves Zythos from Australia. A lot more fruitiness in the first couple of sips. Really nice tropical fruit hops that help mitigate any astringency from the green tea. Makines it nice and sweet and malty, with a good fruit overtone. Only slightly bitter toward the end. I ended up rating the taste an "8" because it does grow on you.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Purchased at Evolution Liquors in Chicago, IL, enjoyed on a nice Saturday before Blackhawks game 5. The label art for this is awesome, laughing drunk panda. Appearance is a clear moderate gold with a rich white head. Aroma is light on hops with a delicate floral smell. Taste goes down dry, the green tea is subtle and has a nice balance to counteract the hop bitterness. Nothing too crazy about this one, its good and solid.