Meadowlark IPA
Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Buzzards Bay BrewingIPA - West Coast Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.35
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Meadowlark IPA is a new juicy and floral hoppy ale we brewed to celebrate the flavor and spirit of American craft brewing. This 7% alcohol beer has a sunny orange-gold colour, 60 International Bittering Units, a smooth mouthfeel and layers of soft flowery hops. We wove fragrant Citra and Bravo hops from the Pacific Northwest with intensely fruity Galaxy hops from Australia. The malts are English pale & crystal, flaked barley with malty highlights from Munich malt and Roast Barley. The resulting patchwork is as “American” tasting as short ribs and slaw, and provides an excellent accompaniment to that kind of food too!
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
650ml bottle. Clear orangey golden colour with average, firm, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Fruity and dry to bitter hoppy aroma has notes of grapefruit, bitter orange, tangerine. Taste is bitter hoppy with minimally sweet caramel malty undertones and a touch of citrus; extremely soft mouth feeling, flat carbonation. Very cautious due to flat carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2013
at 09:36
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel as well as lighter notes of hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, straw, and lemons, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2013
at 05:48
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
66 cl. bottle sampled / shared @ Tim’s De Molen & assorted beers tasting // purchased @ Hopduvel // bright golden with a white head // bottled in 08/2012 // love the design of the label // nose is full American citrus hops, zesty hops, lots of USA hops, grapefruit, tropical fruits,… // taste is bitter American citrus hops, sweet citrus, zest, flowers, nectar, touch floral, bitter wild flowers, light honey, floral in the back, sweet yeast, touch tropical fruits, light sweet malts in the front // lightly fluffy // the added sweetness & fruitiness makes me dig this // not bad / pretty :)
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2013
at 08:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Light amber colour, white head. Aroma of hops, citrus, tropical fruit, passion fruit, quite floral. Bitter flavour, hops, light sweetness. Bitter fruity sweet finish.
(From 66cL bottle at the DMT @ Tim’s living, Gent. Shared by 77ships. Thanks, Eugene!)
(From 66cL bottle at the DMT @ Tim’s living, Gent. Shared by 77ships. Thanks, Eugene!)
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2013
at 03:08
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
75cl bottle, shared with 77ships, Martinus and Tderoeck. Thanks Eugène. Bottled on 08/2012. Dorée-orangée, col blanc épais. Arôme est houblonné aspect renfermé, houblon fruité et fleuri le tout suivi d’un léger côté malté restant discret. Palais est agréablement houblonné, fruité-citronné avec une fin de bouche tirant vers l’aiguille de pin. Malt garde un caractère pils-cara-pâle. AJout de Galaxy et Citra donne ce profil fruité oscillant entre fruit passion-agrumes. Sur ce dernier, le Galaxy ressort plus mais la bière manque un peu de me combler et l’on oscille plus vers une pale ale. En rapport au citra, je n’ai pas vraiment pu y déceler le côté tropical si typique. Malt reste aussi en retrait laissant la part belle aux houblons.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2012
at 08:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Pretty Things Meadowlark IPA (by Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
30/XII/12 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home: De Molen & assorted beers tasting - bottled: VIII/12 (2012-1417) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Clear deep orange beer, aery irregular white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, sweet, passion fruit, pinapple, mango, some citrus. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, fruity, bit sweet, some grapefruit, piny hops. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, dry, citrus, little hay, bit peppery, very saison like, bitter ending.
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
30/XII/12 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home: De Molen & assorted beers tasting - bottled: VIII/12 (2012-1417) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Clear deep orange beer, aery irregular white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, sweet, passion fruit, pinapple, mango, some citrus. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, fruity, bit sweet, some grapefruit, piny hops. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, dry, citrus, little hay, bit peppery, very saison like, bitter ending.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2012
at 10:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours with a hazy yellow body with a very large and retentive white head that leaves good lace. Aromas are of medium malt, tropical fruit, gooseberry, mango, citrus, papaya, low pine, lightly grassy. Noticeably sweet malt aroma, but yet not strongly of crystal malt. Flavors are bitter with an overall bitter balance. Bitterness lasts and is quite assertive. Tangerine, guava and tropical fruit hop characters. Low malt. Good, but the bitterness is slightly too assertive for my tastes in IPA. Malt character is amicably a background note. Low esters, light sweet, some marmalade. Carbonic, very lively bubbles, dry. Carbonation is a bit distracting. Overall a pretty solid IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2012
at 10:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
22 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white and creamy head. Aroma is solid pine and grapefruity hops. Grapefruit, mandarine, pine and peachy. Pine and crisp grapefruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2012
at 07:06
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bomber from Nikki’s, Providence. Pours a hazy orange color with a large creamy off-white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of floral, herbal and faintly earthy hops, bready malts, faint butter and even mild hints of corn and sugar. The taste is bready malts, that same faint butter note, citrus and herbal hops. Medium bodied, well balanced and refreshing. I’m liking this!
Tried
on 06 Nov 2012
at 14:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber. Clear golden body with a frothy white head, slowly diminishing. Enticing aroma of fresh hops, citrus, toasted grain, resin, tropical fruits. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Fantastic balance. A sweet IPA — orange juice, sweet grapefruit, citrus — that works well with resin bitterness. The beer is clean, fresh. Just when you start to think it’s too sweet, the bitterness kicks in. Could drink lots of this beer.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2012
at 18:19