Pukwudgie Session IPA
Down the Road Brewery in Everett, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.36
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at GBBF'19 Day 1, 06/08/19. Hazed light amber with a good sized off white head. Nose is citric pith, grassy, light weed, tangerine. Taste comprises orange pith, pine nip, weed, melon, grapefruit zest. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with leafy hop bitterness. Solid hoppy cask affair.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at GBBF 2019 day 1 - London. Pours clear, dull gold with a fluffy, white head. Nice, with notes of light honey, bready malts, oranges. Light bodied with fine carbonation; decent condition. Balanced finish. Sound.
daniele (14510) reviewed Pukwudgie Session IPA from Down the Road Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
6th August 2019
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Light haze on this amber beer, small cream colour head. Light and semi dry palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Tangy hops, decent pine. Little marmalade. Thin malts. Okay quite drinkable.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Pukwudgie Session IPA from Down the Road Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2019, [ Great British Beer Festival 2019 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.
[ As Down the Road Pukwudgie Session IPA ].
ABV: 4.5%. Unclear light to medium amber colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, sweet malt, some fruit. Initial flavor is light to moderate sweet, finish flavor is light to moderate sweet and moderate bitter with a average duration, sweet malt, toffee, caramel, hop bitter, light woody hops. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. [20190806]
5-2-6-2-11
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery in Everett Boston. Clear gold colour lasting white head. oh yes that's hoppy. Some floral hop. Some peach some orange. Some building bitterness on the finish. Can't tell whether I like it or not.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Pours a somewhat hazy muddy amber from a can. Aroma is citrus and vaguely tropical, flavor is like sourdough bread, very sharp and not balanced with the malts, which tag along and miss the party. Okay beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Pours gold into a shaker. White head with good retention recedes leaving soapy lacing. Tropical fruit and aspergum aromas. Dry with sweet bready caramel upfront turning to sour earth in the lasting bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Draught at Deep Ellum, 5/3/15
I don’t know what’s worse, the beer or this brewer’s website. Probably the website...Here’s an excerpt pulled directly from it
"It’s simple really, I brew the kinds of beer I‘ve always enjoyed—English ales, German porters and Russian stouts—that don‘t need coffee or bacon rinds to truly stand out."
Yep, this guy is a big fan of German porters. I’d like to just do a mic drop here and end the review, as this joke of a brewer/brewery is well-reflected in the beer, but I suppose, in fairness, I shall expound.
The beer is a clear brass-golden with a small off-white head. The nose is initially moderately hoppy, with mainly citrus and floral aromatics. Bits of crystal malt toasted notes can be found, as the beer warms and the hops seem to lessen more and more, giving way to the malt. A bit of buttercream (not diacetyl) and just too much sugar eventually.
As such, the beer begins with a very basic c-hop flavor on top of a caramel and sourdough maltiness. Light earth and yeast notes are noted, and the sweetness builds up more and more on the palate, rather saccharin-like and quite off-putting.
Really surprised this is brewed at Ipswich, as their yeast usually ferments to very low FGs. I don’t know if the brewer specifically wanted something malty, or what happened. I guess, taken as an English Pale it’s more palateable, but the last half of the pint was just a sugary mess with much more bitterness/acidity than actual hop flavor. Kind of surprised Deep Ellum has this crap on tap.