Lil' Heaven
Two Roads Brewing Company in Stratford, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
7.01
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A session IPA in a can. Made with four exotic hops - Azacca, Calypso, Mosaic and Equinox. Taste is of tropical fruits, specifically passion fruit, grapefruit and apricots. Finishes with just enough toasted malt character to balance.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 6/5/2018. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy golden amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of grapefruit, orange, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, green pepper, pine, cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and moderate bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big grapefruit, orange, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, green pepper, pine, cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, orange, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and moderate bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and minimal lingering hop astringency after the finish. Moderate increasing dryness from bitterness and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, bready/grainy, and sticky/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a very nice session IPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the moderately bitter/resinous/drying finish, not overly aggressive. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Great hop profile as expected. Great mix of juicy, vibrant, dank, and earthy hop complexity; with a nice bready Munich malt backbone for the ABV. Minimal residual sweetness. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2018
at 21:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours orange from the bottle. A sudsy, frothy head lingers. An aroma full of citrus greets the nose. Hints of grapefruit and sweet, candied fruits. Taste is bitter with citric overtones. Dry and fruity at the finish. Body is medium, smooth, pleasing. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2018
at 16:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at home, Nivala. Color is slightly cloudy light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Pine, caramel, some hops and malts. Malty and musty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2018
at 17:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Positive Pie. Pours a hazy gold with medium white head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is pine and citrus. Slick body, dank, grapefruit pith, lingering bitterness, very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Aug 2018
at 20:21
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Würziger, herb holziger Beginn. Bitter, spritzig, hell, langer Nachhall. Gefällt. 11/11/9/10//11
Tried
on 15 Jun 2018
at 22:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ DØE - Ølfestival 2018 ] @ Lokomotivværkstedet, Otto Busses Vej 5A, 2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark. [ As Two Roads Lil' Heaven ].Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, fruity malt, pale malt, moderate hoppy, frutiy hops, old hops, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, pale malt, frutiy malt, citrus, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180531] 7-3-7-3-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2018
at 10:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at DØE 2018. Frothy white fair mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and heavy hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2018
at 13:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Very strong, powerful aroma that really drives home how wild the hops are in this particular beer. Really interesting, complex palate. Well-Crafted beer but not one that you can just knock back.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Mar 2018
at 01:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Oddbins Beer Shop, Blackheath. Nose of tangerine, orange peel, apricot, grapefruit which segues nicely into the flavour. Like this one.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Mar 2018
at 14:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pint can, Wine Warehouse. Pours clear golden with a small white head. Aromas of passion fruit, orange peel, light green hops. Flavor is green hops, passion fruit, orange rind, paper. As with most session IPAs, not enough flavor. What's there is good... wish there was more.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Mar 2018
at 02:26