Rico Sauvin
Against the Grain Brewery in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.26
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An India Pale Ale featuring Nelson Sauvin hops. Named after the Sauvignon Blanc grape, is a variety of hop developed and grown in New Zealand. It has a strong fruity flavor and aroma that is described as resembling white wine, or fresh crushed grapes or gooseberries. Some reviewers of this hop perceive the fruitiness as being very tropical with deScriptions including passion fruit, tangerines, and grapefruit.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can from Belmont. Pours a clear orange color with a small white head. A nice fresh hop nose, apricot and tangerine. Rich tropical fruit flavors, toast, marmalade, quite sweet. Solid beer.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Feb 2016
at 00:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours hazy amber with small off-white head. Complex aroma of fruit (mango, other tropical fruits) and malt, with hoppy and malty touches. Bitter, hoppy flavour with sweetish, round fruity and malty notes and touches of yeast. Hoppy and slightly fruity aftertaste. A decent thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2016
at 13:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cloudy golden, thick white froth. Fruity, hoppy aroma. Apricot, light caramel aroma. Slightly floral perhaps. Apricot, grapefruit and green grapes flavour, well balanced with light malty caramel. Quite powerful but well balanced and quite elegant.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2016
at 13:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 8.2%. Fruity and citric aroma. Almost clear golden colour. Small stable frothy white head. The flavour has some mango, a little sweetness. A subtle floral aroma hop. Medium to high bitterness. A mild hoppiness, but has some flavour, round and pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2016
at 13:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks! 650 ml. can sampled @ “Tim’s Christmas Tasting”. That label & text! Wowza! Hazy golden, little white bubbles. Nose is white grapes, dank hops, some yeast, light white sugar sweetness. Taste is yeast, some burned plastic, sugar, wild berries, juicy plastic white grape hops, light grain, yeast, lightly floral, floral passionfruit. Body is a touch yeast. Interesting, pleasant, hop profile is touch too odd to fully love (tad too plastic-like), yeast is a bit too present but wonderful overall.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2015
at 07:39
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Imported from my RateBeer account as Against the Grain Rico Sauvin (by Against the Grain Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
26/XII/15 - 1Pt. can @ Tim's 1st Second Christmas Day Tasting - BB: n/a (2015-1796) Thanks to omgrich for sharing the can!
Clear orange beer, creamy irregular yellow to beige head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, passion fruit, mango, sweet ripe exotic fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. taste: sweet start, very malty, fruity, passion fruit, mango, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: resinous bitterness, piny, pineapple, grapefruit, bit sweet, caramel malts. Lovely one, this one!
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
26/XII/15 - 1Pt. can @ Tim's 1st Second Christmas Day Tasting - BB: n/a (2015-1796) Thanks to omgrich for sharing the can!
Clear orange beer, creamy irregular yellow to beige head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, passion fruit, mango, sweet ripe exotic fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. taste: sweet start, very malty, fruity, passion fruit, mango, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: resinous bitterness, piny, pineapple, grapefruit, bit sweet, caramel malts. Lovely one, this one!
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2015
at 15:06
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 8
Can thanks to my Mom! Pours a clear gold with a slight amber hue with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a strong citrus note with a bit of a dryness with tropical fruits and light grains underlying. Flavor has sweet citrus and a bit of dry fruits with a light grain backbone.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Dec 2015
at 21:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 650ml @ Geokkjer
Pours clear deep golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, citrus, grape and hint of white wine. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long malty, caramel, citrus, grape and piney finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Seems a bit old would love to try this fresh.
Pours clear deep golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, citrus, grape and hint of white wine. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long malty, caramel, citrus, grape and piney finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Seems a bit old would love to try this fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2015
at 07:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap @ Fermentoren, Århus. Unclear orange body with a dense off-white head. Wonderful aroma, mild, pale malt, some caramel, citric fruit, mango, grapefruit, oranges, grapes and cat pee in a positive meaning with a nice, crisp bitterness. Fine balanced body with a pleasant, long lasting, rather bitter aftertaste. A well-made IPA for sure.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Nov 2015
at 13:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
27th October 2015
Hazy yellow - gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is light and mildy crisp. Thin malts, mildly sweet. Light orangey start to the hops but good Nelson grape and gooseberry develops. Trace of pine before a light finish. Nice.
Hazy yellow - gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is light and mildy crisp. Thin malts, mildly sweet. Light orangey start to the hops but good Nelson grape and gooseberry develops. Trace of pine before a light finish. Nice.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2015
at 10:27