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Old Wives Ales in Thornbury, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.13
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 375ml can on 5/3/2021. Am a little cautious approaching this as the only other beers I've tried from this brewer were the hideous Old Man Yells At Cloud NEIPAs, which introduced me to the hell that is bad hop burn. But onto this one! Pours an opaque deep golden with a medium head. Has a quite strong dank, stewed and citrus fruit aroma with a good dash pine and resin. It's actually pretty tasty on the sip, with some sweet orange and peach set off against a bread and caramel malt background, which is met by a quite firm, dry and lingering pine, resin and citris rind hop finish, with a hint of warming booze at the back. The mouthfeel slick and a touch syrupy, the carbonation moderate. This is actually rather good - bold and well balanced. A very enjoyable and unashamedly big (non-hazy) IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2021
at 04:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Clear amber with a white head that lasts pretty well. Aroma of grapefruit, kumquat, pine, breadcrust. Only medium bodied. Sweetish with some boiled sweets then citrus and pine towards a finish that’s bitter but not thuddingly so. Fair enough- does remind of those IIPAs where sweetness fought bitterness to a standstill.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2021
at 13:31
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Pours amber with a large fading head.Nose shows pine and resinous hops, a fair bit of sweet smelling malt with a hint of caramel, some spicy hops and a faint petrol-like note, and finally some tropical fruit behind all that.Flavours include heavy resinous pine by the truckload, a fair whack of clean sweet malt, a bit of grapefruit, some soft booze, and then a long lasting punchy bitterness in the clean finish.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2020
at 11:43