Whirlpool
Night Shift Brewing in Everett, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.28
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Explosively juicy, Whirlpool is Night Shift's flagship New England pale ale. It pours hazy blonde with a nose of ripe peach and clementine, and sips citrusy and vibrant. With minimal bitterness on the finish, it's a remarkably crushable sipper.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap at Night Shift Brewery, Boston. Color is slightly cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, citrus, hops and malts. Easy citric apa with nice drinkability.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jan 2018
at 18:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Orange and a little pine like north of the treeline. A hint of green onions. Some hay. Smooth and easy drinking. Can thanks to Chalumeaux.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jan 2018
at 02:52
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from the brewery, about 2 months old. Grapefruit, minerals, sweat in the nose. Pale yellow, pastel, hazy. Light, crisp, mild. On the way down, but still nice and fruity.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Nov 2017
at 21:40
8/10
Tried
on 13 Oct 2017
at 21:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Night Shift Whirlpool (by Night Shift Brewing):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
15/VIII/17 - 1Pt. can from a trade, shared @ Help-Me-Get-to-10K-In-Time-Tasting 2 (home) - BB: n/a, canned: IV/27/17 (2017-1220) Thanks to Ryan for the trade!
Clear pale yellow beer, big irregular creamy white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving lots of lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of citrus, very fruity, pineapple, passion fruit, some lychee. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very fruity, bit watery, grapefruit, more tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, some pineapple. Aftertaste: nice bitterness, hoppy, bit grassy, citrus, grapefruit, bit resinous.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
15/VIII/17 - 1Pt. can from a trade, shared @ Help-Me-Get-to-10K-In-Time-Tasting 2 (home) - BB: n/a, canned: IV/27/17 (2017-1220) Thanks to Ryan for the trade!
Clear pale yellow beer, big irregular creamy white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving lots of lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of citrus, very fruity, pineapple, passion fruit, some lychee. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very fruity, bit watery, grapefruit, more tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, some pineapple. Aftertaste: nice bitterness, hoppy, bit grassy, citrus, grapefruit, bit resinous.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Aug 2017
at 18:03
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Canned on 02/15/17.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a soft thick golden juicy non-filtered looking yellow color encased with a thick finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated fairly quickly. Mild foamy rings of fairly thick lace.
The aroma splits the bitter to the sweet by melding notes of mango, pineapple, lemon, and peach to a super mellow malt base extremely smooth.
The flavor blends the bittersweet tranquility of the hops to the malts just extremely nice, as if there isn’t any separation whatsoever. Just amazingly combined. Aftertaste leans towards the bitter side of the hops bringing in a slight rind-like contour to evenly flow on into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a superb sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine and so did the ABV. IBU’s seem to be almost leaning towards an IPA, but somehow an ever so slightly smoothness like an APA seems to scale this one down to size for it’s suggested style.
Overall, first time with this delicate beast of a flavored APA and it won’t be my last time with this handsome gem.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a soft thick golden juicy non-filtered looking yellow color encased with a thick finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated fairly quickly. Mild foamy rings of fairly thick lace.
The aroma splits the bitter to the sweet by melding notes of mango, pineapple, lemon, and peach to a super mellow malt base extremely smooth.
The flavor blends the bittersweet tranquility of the hops to the malts just extremely nice, as if there isn’t any separation whatsoever. Just amazingly combined. Aftertaste leans towards the bitter side of the hops bringing in a slight rind-like contour to evenly flow on into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a superb sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine and so did the ABV. IBU’s seem to be almost leaning towards an IPA, but somehow an ever so slightly smoothness like an APA seems to scale this one down to size for it’s suggested style.
Overall, first time with this delicate beast of a flavored APA and it won’t be my last time with this handsome gem.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2017
at 15:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[2/1/17] Draught at Night Shift Brewing in Everett. Murky pale yellow lemonade color. Fruity and slightly oniony hops, dry, mildly bitterish. Nice and refreshing.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2017
at 07:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is crisp fruity, citrusy to peachy. Smooth fruity. Crisp hoppy, peachy and citrusy ligering fruity far finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jan 2017
at 15:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Can at home that should have been saved for tomorrow but alas....lovely milky yellowish pour big electric white head. Nose is great fruity bouquet. Tastes of melon, tangerine, peach, grassy, touch of cotton candy. Smooth palate not very bitter at all.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jan 2017
at 23:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft a Ginger Man. Hazy yellow pour with a small head. Lemon, pineapple, and some cracker. Soft, clean aroma. Mid-dry. Easy drinking. Light. A little fizzy.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Dec 2016
at 13:30