Solar Flare
Beavertown Brewery in Tottenham, Greater London, England 🏴
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.72
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Solar Flare, the hottest of hot, huge hazy Double IPA’s, bursting with powerful, radiant, tropical flavours of sticky mango, warm lychees, papaya and fresh melon. This double IPA is sun ripe and mesmerizingly delicious.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at home from Tesco. A translucent golden yellow coloured pour with a fine a fine white head. Aroma is semi sweet, creamy wheat, tangerine, some alcohol, orange cream, pear, spicy citrus. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, orange and tangerine, floury creamy wheat, tangerine, vanilla, alcohol bite. Light harsh. Palate is semi sweet, light tang, fine carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2022
at 21:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Tesco. Hazed gold. Decent creamy with head. Oaty and milky but with enough hoppage to balance. Fairly sweet with a firm pithy bitterness. Easy going at the ABV. Good but couldn’t do more than the one can.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jul 2022
at 15:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can from a supermarket. Hazy golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are grapefruit and tropical fruit. Crisp bit light body.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jul 2022
at 21:17
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can at home, from Tossco Online, 03/07/22. Moderately hazed orange golden with a decent white cap. Nose is orange pith, melon, grass, pineapple, soft malts, grapefruit. Taste comprises soft malts, light breads, grass, pine nip, ripe melon, tangerine, light stoned fruits. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with balanced light juicy come grassy hop bitterness. Has 'super market beer' written all over it in terms of dumbed down ingredients, I remember the days when a Beavertown DIPA's SP was 3.8 and would likely rise into the 4's. That said it's not terrible or deserving of 3.0 and sub 3 rates IMHO.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2022
at 10:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Can shared by Cloin: Poured a bright yellow with a white head. Aroma is melon rinds, fruity, light citrus, tropical. Taste is fruity, hint coconut, tropical, citrus, wet, hoppy.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2022
at 10:39
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from Tesco. Pours hazy yellow with a thin white head. Aromas of sweet malt, bubblegum, faint coconut, custard. Taste is light sweet rhubarb and custard, coconut again, almost hazelnut. Faint passionfruit yoghurt. Lemon curd finish. Interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jun 2022
at 18:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Tesco. It pours hazy yellow - gold with a medium fluffy white head. The aroma is sweet, perfumed, lychee, bubblegum, mango, yellow plum, nectarine and apricot. The taste is fairly crisp and dry initially, soft, bitter - sweet, touch green, bit of booze kicks in after a while, rawness, pithy, zesty, ripe stone fruit, yellow plum, persimmon and some grainy vibes with a dry finish. Medium body and average. Nice aroma, but perhaps a bit subdued and a little harsh on the taste almost. Ok.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jun 2022
at 13:50
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Can. Nose is pineapple, lychee, slight herbal and hedgerow. Taste is herbal, lychee, slight pineapple, wheat, hint of lemon, sour citrus note, hint of resin. Thin body for the style. There's not much taste and what there is, is very jumbled. Surprisingly poor
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jun 2022
at 19:42
6/10
Tried
on 17 Jun 2022
at 21:26