Musk Of The Minotaur
Hoof Hearted Brewing in Marengo, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.19
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Your nose will do a double take on this buxom beauty. Pungent citrus, stone fruit, floral, and pine resin aromas high jump out of the glass. Complex malt flavors steady the wheel before the hops careen you into a bridge embankment. Get ready for one massive aroma-coma!
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8.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at home. Pale yellow color, white head. Aroma and flavor are nicely hoppy, fruity and decently bitter. Quite nice, I like it. Very solid IPA.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2024
at 19:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Slightly hazy golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of yellow stone fruits, sweet fruits, apricot, mango. Taste of mild sweet yellow stone fruits, apricot, mango, pineapple, moderate bitterness.
Tried
on 27 May 2024
at 11:56
7/10
Hazy golden body small foamy white head. Floral spicy aroma. Spicy herbal fruity flavor. Light body mod carb. 8/2/8/4/15 3.7
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2024
at 14:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
New England IPA from this microbrewery in Ohio, hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Nectaron (a still young New Zealand variety) and Nelson Sauvin. Thick and foamy, egg-white, audibly fizzing, cobweb-lacing, firm and pillowy head on a turbid yellow blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge. Fragrant bouquet of orange blossom, fresh lemongrass, lime zest, sweetly scenting lilies, tangerine, granadilla, ripe pepino, rambutan, meringue, chantilly, sweet red onion, green kiwi. Juicy onset, sweetish with tropical and mildly citrusy impressions of lychee, tangerine, granadilla and mango, the sweetness held in balance by this soft citric sourishness; active carbonation but fine-bubbled and acceptable for the style. Soft, mellow, fluffy but full mouthfeel, sweet meringue- and pastry dough-like core but nowhere sticky, again due to the citrusy and eventually somewhat oniony effects of the hops, with that sweet white grape effect of Nelson Sauvin and tangerine effect of Citra both very recognisable. The sweetness eventually overpowers the citrusiness - which is a shame, as it makes this entire beer end a bit too sweet and cloying, but of course this lack of zestiness and bitterness is a feature often seen in present-day NEIPAs and I guess this is what Hoof Hearted thinks their audience wants (they are probably right). Alcohol remains perfectly hidden and the general flavour profile will certainly please the young haze boys, so technically I have no comments at all - it is just that personally, as an older IPA drinker, I would have loved more citric effects and bitterness here. Typical contemporary NEIPA, in all.
Tried
on 04 Jan 2024
at 15:13
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Lots of green onion here. Tangerine peel and lemon. Murky yellow pour with decent head. Light caramel and some.hop tang, citrus tang in the finish. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jan 2024
at 00:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pour is a hazy blonde with a large white head. Aroma is a real nice peach and citrus combo. Flavor is more peach and pineapple with some oranges in there. One of the more flavorful hazy IPA's I've had in a while.
Tried
on 26 Sep 2020
at 20:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ MBCC'18 [ Red Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark.[ As Hoof Hearted Musk Of The Minotaur ].Murky medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate heavy hoppy, citrus, minerals, fruity hops, peach, light to moderate pine. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, fruity hops, fruity - fruity peel, citrus, peach - stone fruit, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180512] 8-3-7-4-15
Tried
on 03 Mar 2019
at 14:43
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
MBCC. Hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hops, citrus, fruit peel and pine. Flavour is malt, fruit, hops, citrus, fruit peel, pine, medium sweet and a little bitter.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2018
at 15:46
8/10
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Tried
on 24 Sep 2018
at 16:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
MBCC. Hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - fruity and citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 120518
Tried
on 23 Jul 2018
at 08:06