Tangerine Express Hazy IPA
(has 2 batches)
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Rotating|
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7.02
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An India pale ale packed with whole tangerine & pineapple
Imagine the tropical haze of a lazy afternoon- into-evening. Your official duties for the day have been to maybe take a hike to a secluded waterfall, perhaps grill something, definitely chill with plenty of sand between your toes…and crack a phenomenal beer to complete the experience. Check, check, check again and…pfffft…check.
This ain’t no just-add-juice approach. This one is for adults. We use bountiful whole tangerine purée, which brings pithy, crisp bitterness to the citrus flavor. In addition to the complexities of the tangerine — the likes of which you can only get by using the whole fruit — we judiciously employ just a hint of whole pineapple for a backnote (you’d likely not even pick it out of the mix if we didn’t tell you it was there). We’re not looking for a sweet concoction to appease the “I want my beer to taste like fruit juice” crowd. This is Stone. We like our IPAs to taste like IPAs. Big, bold and not for kids.
Working with fruit can be amazing and so using amazing quality fruit is key to achieving that wonderful freshness. The high-end pureed fruit selected here blends exceptionally well with the aroma and flavors from the hops, creating a multi-layered IPA that also has fresh hoppy dankness and bitterness that superbly rounds out this beer.
Imagine the tropical haze of a lazy afternoon- into-evening. Your official duties for the day have been to maybe take a hike to a secluded waterfall, perhaps grill something, definitely chill with plenty of sand between your toes…and crack a phenomenal beer to complete the experience. Check, check, check again and…pfffft…check.
This ain’t no just-add-juice approach. This one is for adults. We use bountiful whole tangerine purée, which brings pithy, crisp bitterness to the citrus flavor. In addition to the complexities of the tangerine — the likes of which you can only get by using the whole fruit — we judiciously employ just a hint of whole pineapple for a backnote (you’d likely not even pick it out of the mix if we didn’t tell you it was there). We’re not looking for a sweet concoction to appease the “I want my beer to taste like fruit juice” crowd. This is Stone. We like our IPAs to taste like IPAs. Big, bold and not for kids.
Working with fruit can be amazing and so using amazing quality fruit is key to achieving that wonderful freshness. The high-end pureed fruit selected here blends exceptionally well with the aroma and flavors from the hops, creating a multi-layered IPA that also has fresh hoppy dankness and bitterness that superbly rounds out this beer.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle from Festival Northland, 7/1/20. Appears to me to be enough of a marketing and recipe change to warrant a new entry. Hazy orange, large creamy and foamy white head, good retention. Aroma of sweet citrus, dank, pale malt. Taste is tangerine, citrus, grapefruit, pineapple, resin, pale malt. Medium bodied, juicy, low to moderate bitterness.
Earlier Rating: 3/20/2017 Total Score: 3.9
Keg at Whole Foods Wauwatosa. Slightly hazy golden, thin creamy offwhite head, decent retention. Aroma of sharp tangerine, resin, dank, pine, pale malt. Taste is dank, resin, pine, pale malt, juicy tangerine, lime. Nice.
Earlier Rating: 3/20/2017 Total Score: 3.9
Keg at Whole Foods Wauwatosa. Slightly hazy golden, thin creamy offwhite head, decent retention. Aroma of sharp tangerine, resin, dank, pine, pale malt. Taste is dank, resin, pine, pale malt, juicy tangerine, lime. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2020
at 02:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Canned 355ml. -from Goblet Zagreb. Hazy golden coloured, medium sized white head, mild tangerine in the nose. Moderate malty, slightly perfumed tangerine, light citrus and sweet candy like touch in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2020
at 21:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Pivný raj Pours gold with off-white head. Lovely tangerines and pineapple on nose. Tastes surprisingly bitter, crisp, tangerines, hints of pineapple. Good, really surprised about the bitterness. I like it.
Tried
from Can
on 25 May 2020
at 16:53
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
[12oz can from Total Wines, Huntigton Beach, CA.] a hazy amber pour with a billowing, loose white head; tangerine aroma (of course); crisp citrusy taste with a very sharp grapefruit balanced by the sweet tangerines and a lingering citrus finish. Another good IPA from Stone.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Oct 2019
at 04:42
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Slightly hazy orange-gold color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Partial rings of lace. Aroma of herbal hops, citrus and malt. Medium body with flavors of tangerine and tropical fruits, herbal hops and bready malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a fruity hop aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2019
at 18:58