Autumn IPA Simcoe
Mobberley Brewhouse (MBH) in Lower Peover, Cheshire, England 🏴
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Score
6.52
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DSG (25977) reviewed Autumn IPA Simcoe from Mobberley Brewhouse (MBH) 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Shmupi. Murky yellow. Oniony fruity hops, sweetish, green bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
440ml can. Murky, yellow-ish golden colour with average to huge, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Rather weak, somehow disguised or suppressed, tropical fruity, hoppy aroma, hints of orange, amngo, some passion fruit, oaty malty background. Taste is minimally tart, tropical fruity hoppy, diluted, minimally adulterated hints of orange, mango, passion fruit, dry, oaty, slightly papery, almost powdery malty basis; slightly watery passages. Rather weak and anaemic, scant fruit flavours with plastic aspects.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy IPA by this craft brewery in Cheshire, containing wheat and oats and hopped with Simcoe, intended as an autumn beer apparently (first time I see an IPA explicitly advertized as such, now that I come to think of it). Arty, indeed somewhat autumn-evoking label on a half year old 44 cl can (though the can itself mentions 44 ml - clearly this brewery is not yet used to the metric system...). Initially thick, frothy and very irregular, 'crenelated', yellowish egg-white, thickly 'papier maché'-like lacing head, thinning into flat islands in the middle but otherwise very stable; cloudy (even somewhat milky) peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge. Very brightly fruity-hoppy aroma of freshly squeezed lime and orange juice, papaja, ripe mango, granadilla, withering dill, freshly cut green onions, lemon cake, dried and ground basil leaves, pineapple, olive oil, dank touch of soggy marijuana but subtle - the sheer brightness and 'joyousness' of tropical and subtropical fruit clearly completely prevails here. Same in the mouth: a very citric character throughout, with bright and crisp mango, pineapple, mandarin, kiwi and maracuja impressions all blended into one 'ball' of refreshing fruitiness, though remaining relatively restrained in sweetness, with a lime juice-like sourish edge accentuated by lively, minerally carbonation (more so than usual for a hazy IPA); soft doughy base adds a malt sweet undertone to an overpowering, though predominantly citric fruitiness, as bright as Simcoe could ever be, bursting with lime, orange, papaja, pineapple and blood orange, but also adding a powdery, bit white-peppery bitterness to the finish - in fact creating the so-called 'hop burn' that plagues many hazy IPAs these days. This hop spiciness is positioned late in the flavour 'track' but appears quite tangy in the end, and even though I personally am not much bothered by it, I can imagine many consumers finding it a bit too sharp. It is, in any case, the sheer 'citrusiness' of the Simcoe that steals the show here - in fact leaving little room for anything else, though admittedly the malt profile is full and soft enough to carry such a heavy load of suspended, uncut, concentrated Simcoe hoppiness. In all, very bright, flawless apart from that 'hop burn' which is a classic mistake in NEIPAs but tolerable here, very much in-your-face with the Simcoe, which I have rarely encountered this fruity and exuberantly citric. Inviting to learn more about this brewery, which was frankly unknown to me before I stumbled upon this can.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can from Honest Brew. Murky golden body with a few clumps that settle to the bottom of the glass. Off-white head. Steady carbonation. Patchy lacing. Aroma of grain and peach. Flavour of dried grass and a hop spice finish. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. A decent IPA.