Ground Control
Hop Nation Brewing Co in Footscray, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA Regular|
Score
6.86
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LesArgen (1206) reviewed Ground Control from Hop Nation Brewing Co 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A pleasant enough aroma of mandarin, lemon and pine, with a little bread and honey. Again, a nice pleasant bitterness in the mouth with that mandarin taste. It's good, not great, and at $12 a can, I'm grading on a curve.
Davros (5246) reviewed Ground Control from Hop Nation Brewing Co 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours amber with a large lasting head.Nose shows tropical fruit, woody notes, caramel, lychee, pine, and, oddly enough, fresh cut timber.Flavours include more pine and resinous notes, a bit of a woody note, sweet clean malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. Not a hazy but a bit cloudy amber with a fading white head. Peachy aroma with spiced citrus and a woody note that's a bit cedar as well as pine. Moderately sweet with hints of pale malt richness before it dries out towards a fairly bitter finish tinged with citrus, wood and spices. Very nicely put together. --- Beer merged from original tick of Ground Control (Fresh Hop 2021) on 29 May 2021 at 14:06 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Can. Clear amber with a cm of white head. 3+ Yes, grassy aroma with newly cut pine, nectarines, kumquats, bread. That cedar note in last year's version is there too and reminds me of the Hitachino Nest JCA. There's almost not enough room on the palate for all of the hop flavours and then they kind of burst through as it dries out with moderate bitterness. It used to seem to me that fresh/ wet hop beers were disappointing 80% of the time but that no longer seems true. I wonder why. Different from and just a little better than the (fine) original.