Stache Bender
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.41
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Stache Bender is a bright orange Double American India Pale Ale with explosive aromas of tangerine, pineapple, and grapefruit. The taste is a celebration of citrus hop flavors and fruit zest fuse with a slight malty sweetness, before a building bitterness resonates into a dry and warming finish.
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flatmatt (2375) reviewed Stache Bender from Short's Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle. Pours a lightly hazy orange golden with a white head. Aroma is very citrusy (grapefruit and orange peel), pine, a bit of sweetness. Flavor incorporates the grapefruit citrus with a bit of pine and some tropical fruit (mango?), some biscuity malt as well, and a bit of a sharpness to the bitterness. Overall though, it's pretty good, though I like the aroma slightly better than the flavor.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft growler poured to pint glass. Beautiful appearance in the glass. Tastes great, too. Big fruity, grapefruit nose. Slightly sweet, nicely balanced with no dominating character on the palate. Definitely a "buy again."
superspak (10163) reviewed Stache Bender from Short's Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 10/24/2016. Pours fairly crystal clear medium orange/amber color with a 1-2 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 light amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, mango, lemon/orange peel, citrus rind, light pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of bright/juicy citrus/tropical/pine hops, grapefruit zest, and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of huge tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, mango, lemon/orange peel, citrus rind, light pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate pine/citrus rind/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, mango, lemon/orange rind, pepper, pine, honey, bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of bright/juicy citrus/tropical/pine hops, grapefruit zest, and moderate bready malt flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance. Moderate dryness from bitterness, increasing through the glass; leading to some lingering hop/fruit zest astringency near the end of the glass, but not overwhelming. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, sticky/resinous/rindy, and fairly creamy/grainy balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden, only a light warmth lingering after the finish for 10.4%. Overall this is an outstanding fruited DIPA! All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of bright/juicy citrus/tropical/pine hops, grapefruit zest, and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the big ABV, and despite the lingering bitter/astringent flavors. A highly enjoyable offering.