Machu Beechu
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Rare Bird BrewpubIPA - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production
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Score
7.10
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Machu Beechu is a Double India Pale Ale brewed with passion fruit and honey in collaboration with Rare Bird Brewpub. At first sniff this beer is an explosion of tropical fruit scents from mango to pineapple. Brewed with Vic Secret, El Dorado, and Mandarina hops, this beer is super dank and juicy. Initial tart and fruity flavors are followed by a dry and slightly bitter finish. With final flavors of mouth-coating honey, this IPA is a must taste.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Medium orange-brown, slightly hazy body, thin off-white head. Bitter, muddled nose with tropical fruit notes. Body tart (citrus, tropical fruit, peach) and catty with vegetal bitterness. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2018
at 18:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 1/11/2018. Pours slightly hazy deep golden amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big juicy and lightly tart/tangy passion fruit, papaya, lemon, orange, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, guava, berry, citrus peel/zest, light pepper/pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, passion fruit, honey, and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big juicy and lightly tart/tangy passion fruit, papaya, lemon, orange, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, guava, berry, citrus peel/zest, pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel, herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness; and light fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of passion fruit, papaya, lemon, orange, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, guava, berry, citrus peel/zest, pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, passion fruit, honey, and moderate bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness and fruit tartness balance; with zero lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/sticky, and lightly resinous/tangy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 8%. Overall this is an excellent fruited DIPA! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops, passion fruit, honey, and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish, never aggressive. Great mix of juicy, dank, and earthy hops/fruit complexity; nice bready malt backbone, with minimal residual sweetness. The hops complement the fruit extremely well. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2018
at 00:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz bottle. Pours a slightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is a mix of hops with the passion fruit, hinting at pine and spicy hops especially. Flavor is a pretty nice spicy and citrus hop and passion fruit blend, with an overall toastiness to it. Some black pepper even. It works very well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2018
at 09:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at EBF, Boston. Color is slightly cloudy light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Some sweetness, some honey, fruits, hops and malts. Not so honeyish I was expecting, which was good.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Feb 2018
at 20:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at GTMW 2017. Pours a hazy gold with a bubbly white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has notes of tropical fruits, light grains and a bit of grass backing. Flavor has some earthy citrus, a bit of tropical fruits and a light grain backbone.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2017
at 17:10