IPA No. 1: Nelson Sauvin, Simcoe & Citra
Collective Arts Brewing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - New England / Hazy Series Out of Production|
Score
7.11
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Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Collective Arts - Toronto, pours an opaque yellow with a small white head. Aroma has some tangy citrus, candied fruit, and chalk. Flavour has notes of candied stone fruits, some tangy citrus, but not much hop content. A bit murky and muddled but not terrible. Okay.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bringing back IPA No. 1 - since 2017, with Nelson Sauvin... ah yeah !! Hazy golden with orange highlights, a creamyish warm-white head, good retention and sticky lacing left. White grape aromas with a touch of pine, some raisin notes and some mild citrus. The mouthfeel is kind of creamy with a slow building dryness. Orange juice, lemon zest flavours with a tad raisins and grapes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Looks like they brought this one back for this mixed 6er at the LCBO. Hazy yellow, large white head. Loads of citrus zest, light stone fruit, zesty, and pithy. Medium bitter, slight dankness, grapefruit finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
473ml can. Pours a hazy pale gold with tiny particles floating around and a medium, fluffy, long lasting, white head that leaves plenty of lace. Dank, sweet fruity aroma of papaya, guava, mango, peach, melon, grapefruit, tangerine, pine and caramel malt. Sweet fruity flavour of biscuit malt, peach, mango, melon, papaya, pineapple, grapefruit, orange peel and pine resin with a dry, bitter grass finish. Medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Really juicy and slightly dank with some complexity. Delicious.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Canned 2/8/17, drunk 4/7/17.
Good clarity (light-to-minimal haze) in this bright, bronze-maize-golden body with a large white head showing moderate to moderately-strong retention.
A bit hesitant to buy this at two months old, but it was slim pickins’ at the store we were at and I have wanted to try these guys. Not disappointed at all upon first whiff which shows a juicy combination of mango, peach, papaya and light to moderate pine. There’s light ester to it and a touch of alcohol/resin but for two months old, this is pretty damned impressive. I think the more delicate character of the Nelson has fallen off quite significantly, leaving too much simcoe for my liking, but mitigated pretty nicely by the citra. Cracker and biscuit malts seem dry but supportive in the background and the beer is clean.
Juicy again in the mouth and, much to my delight, well-malted in spite of its dryness. Some sweet malt goes a long way to both providing a supple texture and also balancing the acidity. Melon, peach, pineapple, mango and papaya are all well-presented/expressed and though there’s some resin and heat on the finish, it’s mostly under-control. I think for two months old, not exactly peak condition for an IPA, this is pretty stellar and i’ll definitely be checking out more of their stuff.