Tundra King
Wolverine State Brewing Co. in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - India Style Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.13
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The approach that WSBCo. usually takes towards IPLs is balancing out the hops with some malt backbone and maybe a little light caramel sweetness. Not with Tundra King. This beer is all hops. Big piney nose. Rich citrus flavors. Tongue curling bitterness. Just like the left-coasters like it!
Brewed with a simple Pilsner malt base for a mesmerizing sunset gold hue that you could find in SoCal or the Arctic, and then flooded with Simcoe, Centennial, and Columbus hops in the brewhouse and dry-hop to give Tundra King an aggressively dank West Coast hop profile.
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superspak (10160) reviewed Tundra King from Wolverine State Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 12/19/2017. Pours slightly hazy golden orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Great dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of tangerine, lemon, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, citrus peel/zest, light pepper, pine, toasted bread, light caramel, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big tangerine, lemon, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, citrus peel/zest, light pepper, pine, toasted bread, light caramel, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, lemon, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, toasted bread, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 7%. Overall this is a delicious IPL. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Not too aggressive. Great balanced juicy/dank hop complexity; clean bready malt backbone, with minimal residual sweetness. Columbus, Centennial, Simcoe hops. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example. Love the hop profile as expected.
deyholla (22727) reviewed Tundra King from Wolverine State Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear straw yellow with a white head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has a nice citrus and grass combination with light straw supporting. Flavor has crisp grass and light citrus with a bit of straw and grain underlying.