Calyptra
Jack's Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - India Style Regular|
Score
7.32
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This hoppy lager is brewed with two intense and aromatic hops, Calypso and Citra. It’s an easy drinking brew that balances dominating fruity, citrusy, and tropical aromas with a sessionable malt body.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. It pours a clear golden yellow color with a white head. The aroma is strong with flowery hops and grapefruit. The flavor is light and flowery. Hop forward with very light pale malts. Low bitterness and a little citrusy in the finish. Very crushable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2016
at 18:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Associates Cityfresh, Brooklyn cans: pours golden with a white head. Aroma is very aromatic with the fruity flavors. Taste is pretty nice. Light bitterness. Large fruit flavors. Excellent body. Pretty dank.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jul 2016
at 18:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can. Cloudy yellow with off-white foamy head, citrus aroma, medium carbonation, slightly sweet lemon peel taste (like Meyer lemons), smooth body, lightly bitter long finish. Very smooth and tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2016
at 15:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Nice purple can on a Saturday afternoon while trying to get my son to eat. Golden pour puffy white head. Nose is tropical fruit and bitter pine. Trees of pine, grapefruit, orange rind, sweet tangerine, some grainy notes. Light bodied but it’s a session after all. Very nice could see grabbing a bunch of this if I was hosting a cookout.
Tried
from Can
on 21 May 2016
at 18:03
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cloudy, dull tan with a big head. Has a light, fruity aroma. Light melony fruit with lemony accents.
Tried
on 17 May 2016
at 11:53
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Sampler at the brewery. Hoppy aroma, mildly carbonated. Yeasty flavor and medium body with a nutty aftertaste. Great tasting beer.
Tried
on 25 Dec 2015
at 18:43
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle pour into pint glass from Redstone’s Liquors, Stoneham, MA. Aroma is strong resin, pine, citrus hops with a little bid of bread, basement. Appearance is hazy orange-yellow with trace sparkle, quickly dissipating head and mild lacing. Taste is same as aroma with definite bitter bent to it but there is balance with sweet malts. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin texture and quite lively carbonation (maybe a little too lively as it dominates the palate and overrides some taste). Overall, there is a good amount going on here. Appearance could be a little nicer and a little too carbonated but am looking forward to my next one!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2015
at 19:33
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
100th MA rating. Pours a hazy amber from a bottle, medium off-white head, some lacing. Aroma of grapefruit, flavor the same, some resin-y quality as well, slightly bitter throughout. Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2015
at 22:14
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from Sample 12 pack as "Calyptra" drunk March 2015
Pale golden body with a tinge of copper and a moderate amount of white head that is well-retained. High clarity.
Lush, floral hop notes are dotted with black pepper, moderate pine and a fair amount of red grapefruit-like fruitiness. The fruitiness is welcome and playful, but there’s still an overarching pine/resin note that I was really hoping would be absent. Malt is lightly bready (dry caramel, biscuits) with no alcohol or flaws in the nose.
Again, in the flavor, it initially gets my hopes up with marmalade, strawberry, grapefruit and heavy floral flavors, but the citrus gives way to pine and a bready, borderline grainy malt texture further discomforts the palate. The normally tight carbonation here works against the balance, really pronouncing the acids and after having one bottle, I’m not too excited to go back for another one. Really can’t stand these punchy/resiny-hopped beers at all. This one is far from one of the top offenders and it’s certainly clean but I just don’t see much balance in these beers. To each their own, though, as I can appreciate many people not liking heavily sour beers the way I do.
Pale golden body with a tinge of copper and a moderate amount of white head that is well-retained. High clarity.
Lush, floral hop notes are dotted with black pepper, moderate pine and a fair amount of red grapefruit-like fruitiness. The fruitiness is welcome and playful, but there’s still an overarching pine/resin note that I was really hoping would be absent. Malt is lightly bready (dry caramel, biscuits) with no alcohol or flaws in the nose.
Again, in the flavor, it initially gets my hopes up with marmalade, strawberry, grapefruit and heavy floral flavors, but the citrus gives way to pine and a bready, borderline grainy malt texture further discomforts the palate. The normally tight carbonation here works against the balance, really pronouncing the acids and after having one bottle, I’m not too excited to go back for another one. Really can’t stand these punchy/resiny-hopped beers at all. This one is far from one of the top offenders and it’s certainly clean but I just don’t see much balance in these beers. To each their own, though, as I can appreciate many people not liking heavily sour beers the way I do.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2015
at 11:13
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Poured from bottle cloudy gold with one finger head. Aromas of floral hops and citrus. Taste is dry pine resin and citrus a nice drinking beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2015
at 22:05