Pine In The Neck
Blue Moon Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.44
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Smooth bitterness with caramel malt and citrus notes - Graffiti Collection
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4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 2
22oz (picked up at the Pacific Beach single Vons location (used to be a double Vons here)) custom blue moon bomber with twist off cap (oh, that’s classy) that pours with a crystal clear copper body that supports a weak tan head. The mild aroma offers up berry fruitiness, vague sugary sweetness and a faint note of cherry nuanced molasses mixed with faint pine like hops. The taste begins with sweet malts, sweet and a bit tart berry juice and some pine hops that slide into a hop astringent sort of bitter tartness or this also could be a fruit skin sort of tart astringency. It stays pretty much that way into the disappointing finish. Wow, not redeeming in any way I can see and this fruity berry sort of note is not working. Let’s see, endless deep pockets (compared to 99.9% of the other breweries), decade upon decade of experience and they want to make a hoppy brew and this is what results? This is a shameful combination of sad pathetic and wasteful. Here’s an idea, how about just make a kick ass clean straight forward IPA or IIPA that will leave customers begging for more. Nah, make this garbage instead.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Oct 2013
at 08:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
An amber ale with a thin off white head. In aroma, restrained floral hops over biscuit malt, oily. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with grassy floral hops well balanced, decent. On tap at Downtown Brew fest LV 2013.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Sep 2013
at 21:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a hazy copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out loads of pine, some metallic notes, and some crackery malt. Flavour brings out loads of piney hops, a little resin, and dry caramely crackery malt. Nice and piney, with a dry piney and crackery finish. Not the most sophisticated IIPA, but nicely balanced and easily drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2013
at 19:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 8
Sample bottle poured into a shaker. Medium bitter and medium sweet. The malt really balances out the resinous pine hops. Very enjoyable beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2013
at 18:30
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours clear copper with a creamy/foamy off-white head. Aroma of mild caramel with some light hop. Might be pine. Med body. Flavor is juniper with light caramel and arguably piney/resin hop. Flavors are mild, except for the juniper. Interesting. Drinkable. But not top end/high ingredient ale. Finishing lightly juniper and bitter.
Tried
on 31 May 2013
at 20:20
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bomber. Pours clear copper with a medium to large cream-colored head with great retention; leaves some near-perfect sheeting lacework. Aroma is catty, doughy, piney, cotton candy. Taste is mostly bitter with some sweet maltiness rounding things out. Has a slight mineral quality in flavor. Mouthfeel is creamy, body medium to full. Wow, I am impressed. A big brewer made a beer and didn’t even seem to attempt to please their mindless core audience with watered down imitation. In a blind tasting, this would never ever be suspected as being a Coors product. This tastes as craft as the one-room brewer down the street. There’s a part of me that rejoices when the big guys get things right and make a good beer. It makes me think the tides are turning in favor of real flavorful beer. There’s an equal part of me that is a little disgusted that a giant company like this is infringing on much smaller brewers’ turf, taking money right out of their hands with their giant ad campaigns and endless amounts of cash. At the moment, though, I’d like to ignore all that and just enjoy this well-made beer.
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2013
at 02:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Rich amber beer with a cream head. Pine and grapefruit aroma. Pine and grapefruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with some earthiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2013
at 14:16
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap in Denver at GABF 2012. A new IIPA from Blue Moon! Hahaha. Pours a clear copper color with a medium white head. A nice sweet hoppy nose with some berries. A smooth easygoing brew with light hops, some bitterness, citrus, light piny juniper. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2012
at 22:04