Sophisticuffs IPA
Funk Estate in Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand 🇳🇿
IPA Regular|
Score
6.54
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The result of ongoing flirtations between an aggressively fierce serving of kiwi hops and a solid distinguished malt character is this love child. So’phisticuffs. As the names suggests she is beautiful, bold balanced and banging, bringing together the quintessential elements of a funkalicious IPA.
Give her a go, she’s a badass lass with a lot of class.
Give her a go, she’s a badass lass with a lot of class.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can @ Cambridge Blue, Cambridge. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are fruits, flowers, bitter hops, citrus, pine and malt. Nice bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Oct 2018
at 20:16
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can @ Cambridge Blue, Cambridge. Clear golden with a head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 151018
Tried
from Can
on 15 Oct 2018
at 20:14
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml can. Pours gold, light mist, medium white head. Aroma assorted tropical rind, citric leanings, grassy, malt. Taste continues along similar lines, with strong grapefruit and pithy moments. Generally seems a bit lost and a little sloppy.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2018
at 06:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can shared at Craft Beer Co Islington, 29/08/2018. Many thanks! A mostly clear golden yellow coloured pour with a fading white head. Aroma is milky wheat, lemon, rind, pear, light apple, Flavour is composed of semi sweet, light base grains, pear, grass, wheat. Palate si semi sweet, simple, moderate carbaotnion. Pretty straight forward stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2018
at 22:24
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Can split at CBC Holborn, picked up online, 29/08/18. Lightly hazed golden orange with a decent off white cap. Nose is grassy, bitter orange, light plastic, straw, lemon drizzle. Taste comprises orange pith, grass, toasted grains, melon, straw. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with lightly astringent hop bitterness. Mediocre stuff and comes across tired.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2018
at 07:55
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can shared in London - cheers to Cloin. Pours clear gold with a frothy white head. Not the best, some grassy hops, husky pale grains, stare. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Soft resin in the finish, more grassy bitterness. Eh.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Aug 2018
at 20:17
6/10
Earlier Rating: 8/29/2018 Total Score: 3.1
Tried
on 29 Aug 2018
at 18:17
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
7th July 2018
Can. Light haze on this gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is light, fairly dry, reasonable fine minerally carbonation. Smooth malts, a touch of creamy sweetness. Tangy and sharply bitter hops dominate the malts. Floral orange in there somewhere. Smooth dry finish leaves a long harsh bitter linger. Brutal and a little hard to drink.
Can. Light haze on this gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is light, fairly dry, reasonable fine minerally carbonation. Smooth malts, a touch of creamy sweetness. Tangy and sharply bitter hops dominate the malts. Floral orange in there somewhere. Smooth dry finish leaves a long harsh bitter linger. Brutal and a little hard to drink.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jul 2018
at 22:55
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
330ml can. Aroma is hay, herbs and a ton of malts. Taste is a little better, with some grapefruit and lemon over all those malts. Aftertaste is a bit rough. Really quite disappointing.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Sep 2016
at 06:08