Citra Face Off
Garage Beer Co in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 🇪🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.45
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It’s been a while since we brewed up some single hop beers but we felt we had the tools to brew up our best single hop DIPA’s ever so we thought, why wait? To get the fullest expression of these varieties we have used 4 different formats of each hop and dry hopped at 3 distinct stages. The formats are Spectrum, Cryo, T90 and BBC pellets. All offer different profiles which come together to create a harmonious, juicy character. Spectrum is a new liquified dry hop developed by Barth Haas which cuts down on the polyphenol contribution from the hops, therefore resulting in a smoother beer for the same level of hop intensity. Added at different stages it can present different characteristics. We have added it during active fermentation to induce biotransformation to get more overripe fruity notes and then again post fermentation for the more classic notes from these hops. Heavy doses of Cryo pellets post fermentation produces impactful top notes while two distinct types of pellets, T90 and BBC provide the deeper and softer fruit characteristics. We have pushed the oat content to higher levels than we typically do on these beers to really acentuate a soft, creamy body providing a delightfully moreish hoppy experience. The Citra version screams notes of peach ring jellies, pineapple, tropical fruit salad and zesty citrus fruit
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7/10
Tried
from Can
on 24 Sep 2021
at 22:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
21st August 2021
Can. Hazy orange beer, decent pale cream colour head. Airy palate, reasonable fine carbonation. The malts are soft and airy and have a very light creamy sweetness. I love Citra. If you look at some of the other hops that came to the fore at roughly the same time and have since (for me) on average, become pale shadows of what they were (hello Mosaic, hello Nelson Sauvin) the Citra remains standing tall. Still vibrant, still layered and most importantly, still as good ( well 95%) as it was when it was launched. Smooth and slightly ripe orange and tangerine, little mandarin. Smooth but decent pink grapefruit. Traces of peach and mango. Soft hop spice on the back end. Smooth finish. Hail Citra! Retains its core character despite its massive expansion in growing
Can. Hazy orange beer, decent pale cream colour head. Airy palate, reasonable fine carbonation. The malts are soft and airy and have a very light creamy sweetness. I love Citra. If you look at some of the other hops that came to the fore at roughly the same time and have since (for me) on average, become pale shadows of what they were (hello Mosaic, hello Nelson Sauvin) the Citra remains standing tall. Still vibrant, still layered and most importantly, still as good ( well 95%) as it was when it was launched. Smooth and slightly ripe orange and tangerine, little mandarin. Smooth but decent pink grapefruit. Traces of peach and mango. Soft hop spice on the back end. Smooth finish. Hail Citra! Retains its core character despite its massive expansion in growing
Tried
from Can
on 21 Aug 2021
at 18:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
4/VIII/21 - 44cl can from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 12/XI/21, canned: 12/V/21 (2021-726)
Little cloudy orange beer, creamy dense off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, citrus notes, tropical fruits, juicy, bit lemony, sweet, caramel malts. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit sweet, good bitterness, juicy, grapefruit, very bitter, lovely, little herbal, some green cardamom, oranges and orange peel. Aftertaste: sweet touch, caramel malts, bit sugary, hoppy, som citrus, nice bitterness in the end.
Little cloudy orange beer, creamy dense off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, citrus notes, tropical fruits, juicy, bit lemony, sweet, caramel malts. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit sweet, good bitterness, juicy, grapefruit, very bitter, lovely, little herbal, some green cardamom, oranges and orange peel. Aftertaste: sweet touch, caramel malts, bit sugary, hoppy, som citrus, nice bitterness in the end.
Tried
from Can
from
Bierhalle Deconinck
on 04 Aug 2021
at 20:00
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jul 2021
at 19:38
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Lata 44 CL de taxman Leon tomada en Belmonte 1.. 07..2021. Enlatado 19..05..21 fcprf 12..11..21 Color amarillento velado con espuma blanca. Sabores intensos frescos herbales y ligeramente afrutados con toques de lupulinas verdes. Suave amargo final. Cuerpo medio con buena densidad, fina y espumosa. Bastante buena para repetir sin duda.
Tried
on 05 Jul 2021
at 11:19
7/10
Lata de @Club Garage, Online. 27/06/2021. Color amarillo opaco corona de espuma blanca aromas tropicales, frutal, sabor frutal, tropical, cuerpo medio.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2021
at 19:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
440ml can. Sweet, juicy tropical fruity with some citrus and floral notes. Quite sweet and heavy.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jun 2021
at 12:23