India Pale Ale
FIRST The Craft Beer Co. in Budapest, Capital City of Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺
IPA Regular|
Score
6.75
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 5
0.5 l can. Nose is strong, raw, pellet-like hops, just like the taste. Not too sophisticated, quite one dimensional. Closes with this hars bitterness too. Light body, average carbo.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Mar 2025
at 09:15
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From tap at First Craft Beer & BBQ, Budapest. Aroma is biscuity with sweetish caramel malt, soft hops and fruits. Flavour is sweetish with a pretty firm bitterness. Body is medium. Malty old world IPA, lacks fruits, doesn't convince as an IPA but not a bad beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:35
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Feb 2022
at 18:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at First Local, Budapest. Lightly cloudy, deep gold colored. AROMA- candies, mix of fruit, spicy. FLAVOR- neutral, moderately bitter, mix of fruit, caramel, spicy. Medium bodied. Average.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2021
at 14:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
IPA from a Budapest brewing company referring to itself as First, though founded only in 2017 and therefore hardly the first Hungarian craft brewery. From a 50 cl can bought at Geers in Oostakker near Ghent. Towering high, foamy, pillowy, egg-white, heavily cobweb-lacing, very frothy and stable head on a near-clear, warm 'old gold' coloured beer with apricot tinge and lively visible sparkling throughout. Aroma of guava, freshly steamed laundry, lime flesh, mango juice, bath foam, lychee, freshly cut celery, dough, sweetclover flowers, mandarin peel, fresh lavender leaves, green banana. Sweetish onset, hinting at unripe melon, light banana, starfruit and halfripe mango, lively carbonation but nowhere harshly stinging, soft and fluffy body; doughy, white-bready maltiness soaked in citric hoppiness, a bit tropical with hints of lychee, guava and mango, adding not only a luscious retronasal flavour experience but also a powdery, leafy bitterness that stretches all over the finish and lingers for quite a while, even if avoiding a truly quinine-like bitterness. Very accessible, supple, 'international' IPA, easily drinkable and refreshing, ticking all the boxes without wanting to adhere to a specific U.S. substyle, somewhere in between clear old bitter West Coast IPA and tropical-fruity hazy IPA. Likeable enough.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2019
at 23:50
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
On tap at First Draft. Cloudy golden, white head. Malty, some fruity notes, sourish. Seems infected.
Tried
from Draft
at
First Craft Beer & BBQ
on 05 Dec 2019
at 21:12
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
17/X/19 - 50cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 31/VII/20 - (2019-1738)
Clear orange beer, big creamy bit irregular off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice and fruity,b it resinous, citrus notes, tropical fruits, some caramel malts. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, little soapy, citrus, some grapefruit, bit resinous, good! Aftertaste: tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, pretty bitter, bit piny, nice old school west-coast ipa, love it!
Clear orange beer, big creamy bit irregular off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice and fruity,b it resinous, citrus notes, tropical fruits, some caramel malts. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, little soapy, citrus, some grapefruit, bit resinous, good! Aftertaste: tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, pretty bitter, bit piny, nice old school west-coast ipa, love it!
Tried
from Can
from
Dranken Geers
on 17 Oct 2019
at 22:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy golden color with high white head. Aroma: caramel, tangerine, pine. Taste: caramel, grapefruit, resin. Medium body, high carbonation, moderate to higher bitterness. Good one, however higher carbonation od impacting drinkability.
Tried
on 02 Oct 2019
at 19:03
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Na salone. Vona chmelova cyrazna. Bledsia medova farba. Chut horka neskor kyslasta.
Tried
on 19 Sep 2019
at 15:48
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Na salóne piva september 2019. Vona: citrusová korenistá Farba: zlatista Chut: korenistá citrusová
Tried
on 18 Sep 2019
at 20:14