Galway Bay Brewery Hearts & Feints

Hearts & Feints

 

Galway Bay Brewery in Oranmore, Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪

  IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
7.56
ABV: 8.5% IBU: - Ticks: 18
The DIPA version of our session IPA, Weights + Measures.This beauty got the royal treatment! The most hops we've used in any beer to date - Hopped throughout the boil, whirlpool, fermentation & dry hop but low IBU. Hearts & Feints is 8.5% of pure Citra juice!
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is fruity hops with citrus, orange, grapefruit, weedy and grassy notes, onion, tropical tones, some further NE characteristics. Flavour is moderate sweet with a medium bitterness. Body is medium. Lovely juicy fruits with some weedy dankness, another tasty IIPA from dependable Galway Bay.

Tried from Can on 07 Feb 2025 at 12:18


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can at home, from drinkstore.ie, 28/12/18. Lightly hazed golden orange with a decent off white covering. Nose is orange pith, melon, light pine, grass, caramel malts, floral notes. Taste comprises orange pith, tangerine, papaya, pine resin, cantaloupe melon, toasted malts, light grapefruit. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close peppered with juicy hop bitterness. Solid DIPA ... easy drinking and grew on me.

Tried from Can on 28 Dec 2018 at 23:04


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

440ml can at home. Pours a slightly hazy yellow gold, decent white head. Aroma of tropical fruit, pineapple, some biscuit malt. Flavour is pineapple, apricot, mango. Nice bitter finish.

Tried from Can on 14 Oct 2018 at 21:27


8.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can shared with Dutchdrebus and Joes. Hazy yellow color, medium sized white head. Aroma is lovely hoppy, fruity, citrussy. Taste lightly malts, again fully hoppy, fruity hoppy. Nice fruit hoppy bitter. Very nice, absolutely enjoyed this one. No weird things but just a good Double IPA. Thank you for that Galway Bay!

Tried from Can on 24 Jun 2018 at 18:41


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can. Aroma of orange, citrus, bready malt and hops. Taste has juicy citrus, bready malt, oat, orange and grapefruit. This is good.

Tried from Can on 03 Jun 2018 at 17:06


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Small white head; (cold) hazed orangey-golden beer. Pure Citra; catty, valerian, blackcurrant leaf, citrus, passion fruit, grapefruit. Catty, bit cheesy hops, fruit (mainly citrus, bitter lychee, bitter peach). Quite slick, oily. Wry, nearly astringent from the hopoils. A tad heavy on the Citra, IMHO. 7/4/7/3/14

Tried on 26 May 2018 at 06:10


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can @ benzai. Hazy yellow with a large white head. Smells hops, fresh, slightly sweaty. Tastes some onion, sweet, hops, fresh. Very nice. Medium to full body, nice carbo.

Tried from Can on 17 May 2018 at 20:57


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

F: thin, off-white, not long lasting. C: yellow to pale gold, hazy. A: tangerine, orange, a lot of different tropical fruits, mango, pineapple. T: orange, fresh tropical fruits, tangerine, light body, easy drinkable, higher carbonation, very good balanced, tasty, enjoyed, sample @ LIBF 2018, thank you tderoeck and 77ships for sharing.

Tried on 20 Apr 2018 at 05:24


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Thank you for sharing tderoeck & Rubin77. Large can sampled twice @ LIBF 2017. Orange hazy golden, small white head. Nose is massive cheese, doughy, haze. Tasty huge cheese, oily, dough, more cheese haze, low tropical fruit. Thick hazy body. Very neat. By far my favourite so far from these guys.

Tried from Can on 16 Apr 2018 at 20:45


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Galway Bay Hearts & Feints (by Galway Bay Brewery):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5

15/IV/18 - 50cl can @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-399) Thanks to 77ships and Rubin77 for sharing today's beers!

Pretty clear bright yellow to orange beer, unstable, non adhesive. aroma: very dank, cheesy, lots of tropical fruits, super hoppy, some fresh hops. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very dank, cheesy, super hoppy, some tropical fruits, lovely stuff! Aftertaste: bitter, some grapefruit, hoppy, dry, cheesy, some dank hops, nice stuff!

Tried from Can on 15 Apr 2018 at 19:11