Critical Talent
The Veil Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.41
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Critical Talent is the West Coast version of our house Double IPA, Crucial Taunt. Brewed with the same base and hop bill, but fermented with an American strain of yeast yielding a crisper, drier, slightly more resinous result. Awesome notes of grapefruit pith, pleasant resin, and a clean hoppy goodness.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home, 16th January 2026. Pours clear and golden, aroma is resinous pine and pith. Taste is assertive, hop leaf and pithy citrus, some resin, bittersweet - very enjoyable
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jan 2026
at 13:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
21st December 2025
Panda thanks to Wingman. Near clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Airy palate, mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light bodied pale malts, a very mild and natural grain and a modest sweetness. Light cooling pine, slightly resinous but bright citrus. A little citrus peel. A fair amount of hop spice ramping up on the back end. Long hop spicy linger. A better West Coast style for me.
Panda thanks to Wingman. Near clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Airy palate, mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light bodied pale malts, a very mild and natural grain and a modest sweetness. Light cooling pine, slightly resinous but bright citrus. A little citrus peel. A fair amount of hop spice ramping up on the back end. Long hop spicy linger. A better West Coast style for me.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2025
at 19:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Panda at home, thanks to the Wingmane, 18/12/2025.
Clear golden to light copper topped with a just off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is bitter orange, grass, pine needle, grapefruit, crisp malts.
Taste comprises bitter orange, grass, pine needle, old skool bite, hop spice, grapefruit.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctuated with juicy come leafy hop bitterness.
Solid WC DIPA.
Clear golden to light copper topped with a just off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is bitter orange, grass, pine needle, grapefruit, crisp malts.
Taste comprises bitter orange, grass, pine needle, old skool bite, hop spice, grapefruit.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctuated with juicy come leafy hop bitterness.
Solid WC DIPA.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2025
at 18:35
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
from Can
from Brew Export UK
on 09 Dec 2025
at 23:05
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
47cl Blik van Beer Republic. Mistig diepgouden kleur, witte kraag. Sinaasappel, grapefruit, caramel, bloemig, tropisch fruit, licht harsig, citrusschil, verbena, goed bitter. Medium body. Lekker.
Tried
on 27 May 2022
at 21:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can, 0.473l. Aroma is mild tropical fruity, citrusy and resinous. Pours cloudy dark golden color with medium sized frothy off-white head, fair lacing and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts ripe tropical fruity and resinous, following is medicinal and herbal, mouthfeel is astringent, while finish is heavy bitter. Medium to full body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. I almost can’t bear the bitterness…
Tried
from Can
on 03 Apr 2022
at 20:31
7.5/10
Hoppy bitterness, clean juicy.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2021
at 23:27