POG Basement IPA
Scofflaw Brewing Company in Atlanta, Georgia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.13
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Take a vacation from the Basement. Set that out-of-office reply (or don’t) and escape to a breezy tropical IPA paradise where Passionfruit, Orange and Guava Flow.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Quite hazy golden and light peach coloured body with a larger pure white head, about two centimetres tall that fades quickly and leaves just a lacing on top. Aroma of tropical fruits of course with a good deal of hop bite, but the guava and lilikoi (passionfruit) notes are the strongest along with some touches of alcohol and lighter malts noticeable throughout. Medium-bodied; Assertive bitterness from the lighter hops with a good balance of sweetness and stronger malt backbones with a good dose of alcohol, some bitterness from the grassy and fruity hops but also leaving things nice and complex for the fruity finish. Aftertaste shows the passionfruit, guava, banana, mango and tropical fruit notes but the hops are nice as well leaving a light biterness and robust body and complexity for the style. Overall, a nice and rich IPA with a lot of fruity and complex flavours that aren't obtusely bitter or pungent, but flavourful and quite dank. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased as a six pack from Publix in Buckhead/Lenox/Atlanta, Georgia a few minutes ago on 29-May-2018 for US$11,99/six pack, sampled in my hotel room a few minutes later here in Buckhead/Atlanta, Georgia on 29-May-2018.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2018
at 03:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Shrewdly balanced fruit IPA, offering up tons of tropical punch notes without ever losing sight of the base brew. Strong passionfruit-orange-guava backbone never grows sweet, instead offering a solid fruity base that transitions into citric hoppiness before leading to a tropical-pine fade. Grainy malts add a subtle toasted sweetness to offset the POG front. Loses the true, well-crafted IPA sheen of regular Basement, but still a very good beer.
Tried
on 11 Oct 2017
at 22:16