Apricot Smoothie
Kings Brewing Company in Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.28
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Apricot Smoothie from Kings Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Fruit NEIPA, with apricot, from a local Californian craft brewer, sample from a can at Kantien in Ghent, thanks to the Gentse Biervereniging for sharing. Loose and large-bubbled, egg-white ‘head’ basically consisting of only these loose bubbles and disappearing quickly into thin air; milky egg-yolk yellow robe with peachy tinge, looking like a glass of passionfruit lemonade or home-made grapefruit juice. Expressive nose, with a weird and strong effect of camphor and paraffin attracting attention at first, next to apricot pulp, maracuja, lime, fruit yoghurt, raw cucumber, kiwi, marijuana, cumin seed. Sweetish and sourish onset, very fruity with obvious apricot pulp again but also lychee, passionfruit and some mango, very soft carb and very soft, creamy mouthfeel, powdery and ‘pulpy’, with a doughy malt soil drenched in ongoing apricot fruitiness which eventually gets fully absorbed by hop fruitiness, dank, very tropical and sultry (or indeed almost sexual, as Craftmember often describes this effect); lots of lemonade effects but noticeable hop bitterness in the tail as well. Very distinctive, different and somewhat challenging NEIPA, very interesting really.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Apricot Smoothie from Kings Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Kings Apricot Smoothie (by Kings Brewing Company):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
22/II/19 - 1Pt. can @ Kantien (Gent), BB: n/a, canned: n/a - (2019-259) Thanks to C'kes for sharing the beer!
Damn backlog, could've been first. ;-) Drank at the same time as Alengrin, though. ;-)
Cloudy yellowish beer, practically no head. Aroma: all lactose, vanilla, passion fruit, sweetish impression, pastry notes, sugary. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweetish, sugary, peach and apricots, candy, lactose. Aftertaste: pretty sweet, passion fruit, citrus, bit lemony, some grapefruit, soft bitterness, more fruit. Very nice!