Zen Garden
Clown Shoes in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.66
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pint can pours with a murky opaque copper colored body that has thin golden hues and supports a thin white head of foam. The aroma offers up grapefruit, guava and a thin vague fresh citrus note. The taste delivers bitter grapefruit hoppiness with slim soft guava and mango in the background. It becomes a little more clementine like toward the finish as the grapefruit hop bitterness hangs on to the end. Decent IPA that feels a little thin on the palate from time to time.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Apr 2019
at 15:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Wood nose. Clear amber, medium head, nice lace. Oak, orange, grass. Medium body, easy carbonation. Not very juicy.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2019
at 21:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Cap Tap. Pours hazy orange tinged gold with a foamy white head. Aroma of mildly roasty malt (not very much!), tropicals and a touch of citrus pine. Med body or a bit better. Flavor is juicy, might have a touch of lactose, and is pine and tropicals. Malt is detectable (barely). Not quite dry (juicy), more than moderately hoppy, a little more than moderately bitter. As for tropicals I'm torn between passion fruit and pineapple. For me there's a slight acidity suggesting pineapple, but there's a fruit flavor I identify with passion fruit. Great can label. The flavor melange is different than anything else I can recall; the flavor pleases me. What else could be wished for? (tons of things, actually)
Tried
from Can
on 23 Mar 2019
at 00:26
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Perfunctory hazy IPA; haze is the rage, brewery puts out NEIPA to appease the masses, no thought is given into actually creating an interesting pint. Mild tropical notes mix with melon and peach, some bitterness, cracker and minerals on the underside, and a touch of diacetyl at the bottom of everything. At least they got the bad hazy IPA astringency right. Not good.
Tried
on 04 Mar 2019
at 00:55