This Never Happened
Polly's Brew Co. in Mold, Flintshire, Wales 🏴
IPA - Quadruple New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.86
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Pushing the boundaries as far as we possibly can, this is comfortably the biggest beer we've brewed to date - utilizing almost a tonne of malt, and with a 15kg addition of Mosaic in the whirlpool to offset the natural sweetness of this beer, we've gone with the biggest dry-hop charge we've ever commissioned into a beer to impart all manner of tropical punchbowl flavours into the mix. Another 25kg of Mosaic? Go on then. 15kg and 10kg of Citra and Idaho 7? Bring it on. 10 and 5kg of Simcoe and Idaho 7? You're just spoiling us now.
A soupy, pulpy, certified hop bomb of a beer, positively dripping with a medley of berries, pineapple, mango, passionfruit, and papaya, before just a whisper of pithy bitterness keeps everything in check.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
440ml can online from Trembling Madness, York. Pours opaque yellow orange with a creamy white cap. Aroma: sweet tropical fruits, papaya, mango, passion fruit. Taste: moderate to heavy sweet, syrupy, juicy, papaya, mango, pineapple, grapefruit pith, pine. Full body with fine carbonation. Decent balance considering the ABV, and not overly boozy.
Basementonline (12540) ticked This Never Happened from Polly's Brew Co. 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from The Fuss Club. Cloudy yellow pour with a white head. Dank aromas with tropical fruit, peach, sweet citrus. Big juicy flavours of tropical fruits, peach,nectarine, pear, pithy orange, pineapple. Soothing alcohol burn. Spicy hoppy sweet fruity action in the close. Right up my Rue de la Yum 😋!
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed This Never Happened from Polly's Brew Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
29th January 2022 Can. Hazy orange gold beer, decent pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth, airy even, buy still has a slight viscosity. Decent fine carbonation. Smooth malts, an obvious and lovely creamy sweetness that might be a bit too much for a lower abv hoppy beer but works perfectly here. Quite a crisp piney hop but quite spicy too. Then you have the hop fruits which are rich but cooling pine drenched along with a level of alcohol that plays a big part. And that part is to make the hop fruits feel like they are part of a very good fruit liqueur. Citrus fruit liqueur and tropical fruit liqueur. Finishes smooth with quite a notable spicy hop. Whoooo. This, to me, is quite the QIPA. Almost definitive. Coherent and hoppy but a natural transition into the bonkers quintuple IPAs. So. Basically more insane than most TIPAs but not as bonkers as the even higher abv hop fests. A charming and seductive fruit liqueur of a QIPA with great depths of hop spicy complex fruits along with fruit liqueurs.
LazyPyro (9998) reviewed This Never Happened from Polly's Brew Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
440ml can. Opaque yellow, small white head. Aroma of sweet tropical fruits, papaya, mango, passionfruit. Taste is sweet, syrupy, juicy, tropical, papaya, mango, passionfruit, pineapple, pithy grapefruit, pretty boozy obviously. Very thick, full bodied. QIPAs are pointless but this was actually very tasty.