Heart of Darkness Brewery Loose Rivet New England IPA

Loose Rivet New England IPA

 

Heart of Darkness Brewery in Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast, Vietnam 🇻🇳

  IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
Score
7.05
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 59 Ticks: 38
Pale and hazy in true “New England” fashion. Big pineapple, tangerine and stone fruit on the nose. Rich and creamy mouthfeel. Finishes with a tropical kick of lime, guava and pomelo.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from Alko, Helsinki. Pours very hazy golden with a medium sized, white head. Fruity aroma with pineapple and citrus, other tropical fruits and hints of grass. Moderate to medium sweet with medium flavour intensity and bitterness on the lighter side. Quite drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2022 at 14:04


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Made in Vietnam. A wiec craft z pooludniowej Azji. Dobre, ladnie wygladajace, piana kremowa trwala czerwonawa- do jasno brazowej barwy. Pachnace mandarynkami. w smaku tresciwe slodkawe, raczej slodowe, cytrusy, jasne sliwki, agrest, troche zywicy, troche tez wyczuwalny alkohol, ale spoko jak na Wietnam bardzo dobra i jakosc.

Tried on 29 Aug 2022 at 18:15


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottled 330ml (Alko web, bottled 020422)
Hazy orange colour, small white head. Aroma has some fruits, dull cardboard. Medium-bodied. Sweet riped tropical fruits, some lime. Sweet and bready. 5 months age shows.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2022 at 18:10


7

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jul 2022 at 13:48


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Turbid golden white color. Frothy white head. Interesting palate of mandarin oranges, lemon and peaches. This is not something I’ve got before in a NEIPA. It’s a very odd hop character that I actually like once I get my head wrapped around it. Medium low carbonation and bitterness pretty interesting. Somewhat dank. I m not in love but I am enticed . Good stuff

Tried on 23 Jul 2022 at 17:03


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Very nice NEIPA. Very fresh, and hits all the right buttons. Mango and tangerine, lychee even. Pours murky yellow with ok head and lacing. Tangy finish. Bottle at Embargo thanks to the guy from Riel.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2019 at 09:18


8

Во воемя пути, биргика могло развезти. Поехал я спать

Tried on 19 Oct 2019 at 19:41


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Heart of Darkness - Singapore, pours a hazy yellowish blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out dank hops, with some yeast, and pithy stone fruits. Flavour is quite dank and pithy, with pot-like hops, pithy stone fruits, and biscuity malt. Pithy and dank. Good stuff.

Tried from Draft on 16 Aug 2019 at 10:19


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Fairly hazy golden and peach coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall pure white head that fades quickly and leaves an ugly lace on the side of the glass. Aroma of grass and tropical fruits with a lot of bitterness noticeable from the hops with some dry grain, full oranges and more tropical fruits like guava and even a dose of passionfruit at the tail end. Medium-bodied; Assertive bitterness up front with a healthy hand of tropical fruit-showing hops and a lot of alcohol showing through with a moderate and balanced amount of biscuity malts that even show a touch of a wheatie side of things and smoothness. Aftertaste is robust and rich with the tropical fruits, hop bitterness and strong malt all coming through. Overall, a strong and pungent NE IPA that shows the fruit sides first and foremost, but also a great malt balance and smooth light sweetness on the end - this is great to have a beer like this on the other side of the world than New England. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased a few hours ago from the Brewery here in Saigon, Vietnam on 10-August-2019 for 115,000VND sampled a few hours later here in my hotel room while packing for the next leg of my vacation on 10-August-2019.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Aug 2019 at 20:53


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle shared at Cotteridge Convention 23/06/18. Many thanks! A dirty orange coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is dank , grassy orange, petrol notes. Flavour is composed of oily, dirty wheat, wheat orange, dank notes. Palate is oily, resinous, m,oderate carbonation, grassy. Good.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jul 2019 at 20:22