Bearded Seal DDH Hazy IPA
Hop Nation Brewing Co in Footscray, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Collab with: LervigIPA - Flavoured Regular
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Score
6.46
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The Bearded Seal, found in Norway, is a heavy set creature with large whiskers. This collaboration needed a big beer.
Mike from Lervig came to Footscray and caused plenty of havoc in the brewery. Double dry-hopped with a punch-bowl of fruit-forward American hops, we then added pineapple, passionfruit and mango to the ferment.
Full haze, full juice.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Aromas of mango dominate other notes of pine, pineapple and orange. In the mouth, it's just a bit hard to get a grip on the flavours - you get some mango initially, but then it slips away, replaced by a pretty harsh bitterness. A pretty disappointing effort.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours hazy gold with a large fading sudsy head.Nose shows pine, resinous hops, grassy and spicy notes, straight-up hop resin, pineapple, mango, peppery hop notes, and some prominent clean malt behind.Flavours include more pineapple and resinous, piny hops, a bit of a herbal note and a hint of a soap-like note. The hops are super-full piny, resinous and efficacious. A fair whack of clean malt behind, and that along with the fruit number gives an impression of lasting sweetness to balance that lingering note of pure hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can at Mrs Parmas, Melbourne. Really hazy light yellow with a small head. Aroma of mango, passionfruit and some herbs. The same in the taste, also light sour notes. Well, a decent one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
From a 375ml can on 1/1/2020. Pours like thick fruit juice with pretty much no head. The nose is sharp, slightly spicy, and dank. The flavour features lots of pineapple and mango, but that's immediately smacked in the face by spicy, medicinal, and reasonably salty, hop burn. The palate is thick, the carbonation moderate. I'm surprised that these types of hop burn NEIPAs continue to be made and drunk. Salty, harsh and not particularly pleasant.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Can. A bucket of sand. Headless after 20 seconds. Aroma of mostly underripe tropical fruit (mango, pineapple) and oranges. Some light herbal notes. Very juicy with citrus, whipped mango, pineapple, then some menthol and herbal notes. A bit of throat burn at the end.