Pulp Fusion Blood Orange IPA
Boulder Beer Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.03
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle to Shaker Pint at Old Chicago in Overland Park, Kansas. The pour is clear golden with a well formed 1 inch white head. The aroma is earth, grain malt along with a bit of the resin orange fruit. The taste is primarily the grain malt, with a bit of bitter blood orange behind the malt. The palate is medium bodied, soft carbonation, a bit mouth coating and a lingering grain malt finish. Didn’t taste super fresh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. I wonder if this is a beer that is bear very fresh. Hops are mild. There is citrus and it is is sweet. Simple and easy to drink, I am surprised it is rated so poorly.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Boulder Beer at Denver International Airport, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out very subdued oranges, with a hint of piney hops. Flavour is along the same lines, with slightly more assertive oranges, light piney hops and sweet cereal malt on the underside. Decently balanced, with a lightly orangey sweet finish. Okay.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pour is a hazy yellow with a large white head. Aroma is orange juice with some caramel apple. Flavor is kind of a muddled mess of caramel malt, bitter orange and marmalade. Nothing was bad about the flavor it just all did not really go together all that well. No hops made a presence so that was a problem. While not horrible I could not recommend this fruit IPA.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
What the hell, Boulder? Pretty dreadful in every regard; pours a decent clear amber but gives up no head whatsoever, and the nose comes closer to a bad macro pilsner than a fruit IPA, grainy with a soured mildew backdrop. Taste has barely any blood orange; should be called a corn IPA. Grainy and sweet, with nary a hop or citrus to be found, keeping its cereal sugariness throughout and finishing with the slightest inkling of an orange tartness, although this could be wishful thinking. Even the texture feels off, slack and undercarbonated. Bad. Very, very bad.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Tangerine, pencil shavings, and passionfruit aroma. Significant DMS on the nose. Clear amber, huge sticky yellow head. Tart and bitter orange, badly vegetal. Medium body, moderate carbonation, resinous. Serious infection. Probably would have been pretty good otherwise.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Minnesota Trip Beer #245. Keg at Rock Bottom Minneapolis Airport, 5/14/16. Clear golden, thin fizzy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of pale malt and muddled orange. The taste is orange zest, orange, pale malt. Medium bodied, mild lingering bitterness, kinda flat.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at Daily Growler UA. Pours a slightly hazy yellow-gold color with a medium thin white head that burns away quickly to a wispy film. Spotty lacing. Citrus, hops and malt in the nose. Light to medium body with flavors of blood orange, grassy hop and malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a short citrusy hop aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Smokin Joe’s, Pittsburgh tap: pours orange with a white head. Aroma is orange and hefty malt. Taste is not very bitter. Crappy aftertaste. Not good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 11/10/2016. Pours fairly crystal clear golden orange color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of blood orange, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, lemon/orange peel, citrus rind, pine, lightly toasted bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/pine hops, blood orange, and light-moderate bready malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big blood orange, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, lemon/orange peel, citrus rind, pine, lightly toasted bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate pine/grassy/citrus peel bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of blood orange, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, lemon/orange peel, citrus rind, pine, lightly toasted bread, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops, blood orange, and light-moderate bready malt flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero lingering hop astringency after the finish. Moderate dryness from bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp/sticky/resinous, and fairly creamy/grainy balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6.5%. Overall this is a very good fruited IPA. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops, blood orange, and light-moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and quite refreshing to drink. A very enjoyable offering.