Short's Brewing Company It's About Thyme

It's About Thyme

 

Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production
Score
6.71
ABV: 7.6% IBU: 60 Ticks: 2
A golden orange colored American India Pale Ale brewed with orange blossom honey and fresh thyme. Pungent dank hop aromas blend perfectly with some herbal, bready and light sweet citrus complements. Definitive thyme and fruity apricot-like hops flavors, lead into a sticky hop finish, with an enhanced dryness brought on by the honey’s higher degree of fermentability. The overall bitterness builds as it lingers on the palate.
 

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7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 12/26/2017. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy deep golden amber/light orange color with a 1 finger dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big lemon, lime, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, thyme, mint, coconut, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, thyme, honey, and bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, lime, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, thyme, mint, coconut, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, lime, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, thyme, mint, coconut, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, thyme, honey, and bready malt flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero lingering hop/spicy astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitter/spiciness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 7.5%. Overall this is a delicious spiced IPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, thyme, honey, and bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish, never overly aggressive. Not overdone on the thyme spice. It fits in perfectly with the fruity, dank, and earthy hop profile; nice honey and bready malt backbone, with no residual sweetness. A very enjoyable, unique, and well made style example as expected.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Apr 2018 at 00:41

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
12oz bottle. Murky orange-tan body. Not really that good. The thick, sloppy malt base hardly lets the thyme shine. Herbal nonetheless, in a wintergreen piney way. Amateur hour stuff, limited finesse.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Apr 2018 at 06:23