Blood Orange IPA With Agave
Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Rotating Out of Production|
Score
5.90
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
keg at ushers... Golden amber.. thin white lacing.. soft peach.. grassy hay fruits nose.. Soft dry grassy herbal fruit
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Keg at ushers. Pours golden, nose is sweaty, toffee, cheesy, taste is citrus, toffee, sweet.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft @ Aces & Ales (Tenaya Way), Las Vegas, NV. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy hoppy blood orange aroma. Fruity malty sweetish agave hoppy blood orange flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy sweetish agave finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 5/13/2018. Pours slightly hazy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of juicy blood oranges, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, pineapple, peach, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, light pepper/pine, honey, agave, white bread dough, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity hops, blood oranges, and moderate pale malt/agave notes; with solid strength. Taste of juicy blood oranges, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, pineapple, peach, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, light pepper/pine, honey, agave, white bread dough, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel, herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness; and slight fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of blood oranges, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, pineapple, peach, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, light pepper/pine, honey, agave, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity hops, blood oranges, and moderate pale malt/agave flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero astringent hop/fruit flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, bready/grainy, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 7%. Overall this is a nice fruited IPA. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity hops, blood oranges, and moderate pale malt/agave flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the tame bitter/drying finish. This was definitely on the sweet side, but not overwhelming. Nice balance of juicy hops/fruit; with balanced agave/pale malt flavors. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Quite light golden coloured body with a copper glow and a thinnish pure white head that fades quickly. Aroma of sweat socks, light grass, funk, agave (perhaps), honey, grain and a ton of nasty, just plain bad scents. Light-bodied; Strong grassy and very funky flavour with a lot of the agave and sweat sock flavours with a good grassy and assertively bad and off-flavoured finish. Aftertaste shows a very light sweetness, a bit more malt and grain and somehow way more funk and grassy qualities than anything else, but this is quite bad with no citrus nor pungent orange notes and only some bad and pungent agave and pure funk (in a bad way) flavours. Overall, a pretty bad beer that doesn't show any Blood Oranges, no real hoppiness and definitely not anything recongnisable from any beer category. Definitely NOT worth trying, unless you get it for free, and even then, it's best to dedicate any room in your stomach for something WORTH drinking. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Manassas, Virginia on 31-January-2018 for US$2,69, sampled just four days later at home in Washington after the Philadelphia Eagles won Super BowlLII (pronounced Bowl-ee) on 04-February-2018 as this was one of the closest beer that I had to Philly.