Mastermind
Fiddlehead Brewing Company in Shelburne, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Rotating|
Score
7.81
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American Double IPA with tropical fruit notes. Straw colored with a hazy glow. Pineapple and Cantaloupe are dominant characteristics. This beer finishes with a slight tartness.
Every year we change the can design to signify a new fundraising year. 25% of all sales of Mastermind are donated to the University of Vermont Children's Hospital!
Every year we change the can design to signify a new fundraising year. 25% of all sales of Mastermind are donated to the University of Vermont Children's Hospital!
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours hazy light pear into a tulip. White head with excellent retention recedes leaving thin sheets. Lychee and melon aromas. Soft with lychee, melon and papaya front to back.
Tried
on 07 Oct 2022
at 14:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Canned 5/19/22 drunk 5/26/22. Almost turbid, lemon-maize. Small, white head steadily fades to ring. Lemon, juicy tangerine, smartees, sour patch kids, lovely white wine and light passion fruit with unobtrusive, crackery malts, clean yeast and no alcohol, flaw or resin. Very malty, a bit sharp/boozey at points with strong honey-like malts and lingering alcohol and hop acidity. Tangerine, melon, heavy honey again and lingering spice and very light white wine. Kinda heavy-handed with the malt and booze here, crowding out some of the more interesting, delicate hop notes. Still pretty nice, though, and it is only 7 days old.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2022
at 00:57
9/10
Juicy!!!! Fucking brilliant!
Tried
on 30 Jan 2019
at 20:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours from the can a cloudy golden color with a medium thick frothy white head that recedes gradually to a film. Partial rings of lace. Aroma of tropical fruit, herbal hops and malt. Medium body with flavors of citrusy hops, melon, pine and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a fruity hop aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2017
at 15:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Thnx to Kyle ! Drank from the Can to perserve the volotile hoparomatics, so no info on the pour. Can is collorfull, pink and greenblue seacollor, not much info about the hops used or anything. Yay, a canning date ! Canned 13-10 so a bit over a month old. Smell is piny, medium intensity, bit malty, but very hidden so underneath the piny notes. Taste is pretty bitter, to go over into a pine forward, mildly fruity aromatic taste. has a papaya-like sidenote in it's fruityness i'm not a big fan of. Otherwide, pretty solid IIPA. Average on most ends ( mouthfeel, carbo, maltyness ) . Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Nov 2017
at 03:29
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From can. Thanks George! Light hazy golden color with white head. Malty and hoppy aroma, citrusy fruit, tropical fruit, grass, pine, wheat, caramel. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation. 8-3-8-3-15
Tried
from Can
on 24 Aug 2017
at 07:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Can. 10/7. Pours lightly hazy golden, medium white head, good lacing. Aroma is perfume, pot, spruce, melon. Flavor follows, light plus sweet, light bitter. Tasty. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Nov 2016
at 17:25
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Hazy yellow, bit of white foam. Looks like pear juice. Aroma is orange, fresh and with some green weed. Tastes clean and green, grassy. Bitterness is constrained, feels like aojiru, green juice with orange juice mixed in. Some slight medical bitterness in the finish. Beautifully balanced, nice bitterness there. No way this is more than 8 %, too dangerous!
Tried
on 30 Oct 2016
at 07:57
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can shared. Thanks Jon and Kaori! Pours a clear gold with a small finger of foam that dissipates fairly quickly. Big citrus and juicy mikan notes on the nose. The nose just goes on and on. Average carbonation with a medium to light body. Alcohol is completely hidden. Very dangerous. Sweet mikan juice feel with very little bitterness on the finish, maybe a touch of orange zest. Fantastic.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Oct 2016
at 08:28
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz can with DCLawyer and radagast83. Courtesy of jc1762, thanks Jon! Very hazy yellow with off-white head. Aromas of peppery spice, citrus. Tastes of citrus, floral, malt, candied orange. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Oct 2016
at 19:19