Mandarina IPA

Pour is a murky orange with a small white head. Aroma is a big sweet malt with some orange peel. Flavor is fruity with some mango and orange but then everything is overtaken by a big hit of sweet caramel malt. A bit too much malt presence to get the alcohol up to 8%. This is a beer that could have benefited from a less heavy malt bill, the fruit addition would have been more pronounced and this would have gotten a better score.

bottle. very balance, easy to drink ipa. excellent hop to fruit mixture - smelled awesome. nice beer

12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 6/14/2016. Pours lightly hazy deep orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big tangerine, mango, peach, passion fruit, grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange peel, light pine, light caramel, toasted bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of juicy citrus/tropical hops, mango/citrus fruit, and moderate bready malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big tangerine, mango, peach, passion fruit, grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange peel, pine, light caramel, toasted bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate pine/citrus peel bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of tangerine, mango, peach, passion fruit, grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange peel, pine, toasted bread, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of juicy citrus/tropical hops, mango/citrus fruit, and moderate bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero astringent hop flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from bitterness, increasing through thew glass. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, moderately sticky/resinous, and creamy/bready balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice fruited DIPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of juicy citrus/tropical hops, mango/citrus fruit, and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.

355ml bottle. Clear, reddish, dark amber colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Slightly artificial mandarine aroma, a sugary touch of jelly, jelly bears. Taste is bitter hoppy, slightly fruity, hints of mandarine, mandarine zest. Not my cup of tea.

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