Cambridge Brewing Company Flower Child IPA

Flower Child IPA

 

Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
7.16
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 44
Extensively hopped and dry hopped with a big roster of hops – Simcoe, Centennial, Cascade, Ahtanum, Chinook, and Amarillo – it’s big, bright, and floral, with just enough malt to balance. This American-style I.P.A. stands head and shoulders above its hoppy brethren, blending pale and honey malts to balance the palate without interfering in your herbal reverie, and creating a new American classic.
 

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6.5/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Sampled from a 12 oz can this beer poured a cloudy orange color with a huge soapy orange-white head that left great lacing. The aroma was very strong leafy, piney and herbal hops. The flavor was bitter and leafy with gritty floral hops. Very long hoppy finish. Medium body. Ok
Tried from Can on 11 Nov 2017 at 20:23

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce can. Honey gold pour. Large bubbly beige head. Fragrant, citrus hop aroma. Flavor is biscuit malt and dank bitter hops with notes of grapefruit and pine. Nice balance, medium body and dry peppery hops that show in finish. Very well done.
Tried from Can on 27 Sep 2017 at 21:13

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can. Pours a hazy gold with a very large and fluffy head. Kinda came bursting out of the can when I popped the tab. Aromas are delicious with lemon, pineapple and a bit of resin. Flavor is big and crisp... resin and pineapple seem to drive the bus with a pretty good malt presence that balances things out well. This is a pretty nice IPA.
Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2017 at 21:57

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Can from J’s. Pours a clear gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Malty nose with some pine. Lemony pine on the palate. Bitter and a touch of caramel.
Tried from Can on 27 Jun 2017 at 00:41

6/10
Tried from Can on 18 May 2017 at 19:27

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
A: Slightly hazy orange gold. Plenty of foam, and tilting my glass from side to side, plenty of lacing.

S: Pine and very flowery hops in the smell. Mostly pine, which I dig.

T: Pine again but with a mildly aggressive grainy malt character that adds a real plus to this IPA. There’s a subtle sweetness that I get within the flavourful profile that I can’t identify. Helps.

M: Medium bodied until the finish where it thins out some.

O: I reckon my palate likes this muchly. Who am I to argue?
Tried from Can on 10 Feb 2017 at 16:58

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Can. Hazy dark yellow with a white head. Nice hop aroma. tropical fruit, pine, juicy malts. The flavor isn’t as impressive as the aroma, but gives a good solid firm bitterness over a solid malt base. Long bitter finish.
Tried from Can on 09 Feb 2017 at 17:47

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can 12fl.oz. @ Craig’s - Edinburgh. [ As Cambridge Flower Child IPA ].Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, light caramel, moderate hoppy, citrus, herbs, grass, orange - citrus, dusty fruit. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, tropical fruit, hoppy, herbal hops, fruity, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160319] 7-3-7-3-14
Tried from Can on 13 Nov 2016 at 11:10

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Draught and cans since debut, most recently at Anchovies, Winter 2015.
Moderate amount of white head tops a bright, light-amber body with soft auburn-bronze hues and good clarity. Retention is moderately-strong.
Very fruity in the nose; cherry, strawberry, apple, lemon and with a touch of stronger, more austere pine, but not to the point of it being resinous. Light pepper is noted, along with a lightly sweet honey-like maltiness and touches of biscuit. No alcohol or flaw and the simcoe and amarillo definitely add more to it so that it’s not just another C-hop bomb.
Lightly to moderately malty with strong attenuation, but still a fair amount of malt sugar remaining, being needed to balance all of these high alpha hops. Black pepper, cherry, melon, orange and ruby red grapefruit all combine nicely with the base malts to produce a fairly juicy-sweet fruitiness. Spicy, lightly resinous pine lingers on the edges and there’s certainly plenty of bitterness to go around. Moderate carbonation helps disperse some of the acidity, however and it ends crisp enough, though with some light specialty grain character butting in. No alcohol or flaw. A good rendition of a West Coast IPA but with more malt character than those usually have.
Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2016 at 12:38

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Draught @ Albion. Slightly cloudy golden color with small creamy white head, faint hops aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter hoppy taste with some malt flavor, thin body, longish hoppy finish. Nice, not a bitter IPA.
Tried on 01 Jul 2016 at 13:15