$UMO
Mad Squirrel in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.95
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Named after the two heavyweight hops that battle it out in this brew (Summit and Mosaic), $UMO will wrestle your taste buds with a flavour combo of tropical fruit, dank herbs and weighty bitterness. Other beers may enter the ring but $UMO will be the last brew standing.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at the Brewery shop Amersham. Poured a hazy straw colour with a frothy white head and some clingy lace. The aroma is malt, juicy citrus. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter with a fresh crisp fruity, dry pepper spice, hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Kick Off on 01 Jun 2025 at 22:04 - Score: Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7. Original review text: 440ml can from Mad Squirrel, Amersham. Poured a hazy yellow golden colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is grainy, tropical citrus, light dank. The flavour is moderate bitter, with a fresh, crisp, juicy tropical citrus, mango, pineapple, dank, light hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jun 2017
at 08:36
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at the Grain Barge, Bristol 8/4/2017. Hazy gold, with a small, off-white, head. Some tropical fruit, sweet, biscuity, malts, grassy hops and a lingering, dryish, finish. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 May 2017
at 01:38
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Falcon (JDW), High Wycombe. A pale straw pour with a thin white head; tropical fruit aroma, with pineapple to the fore; thin in th emouth with a pineapple squash taste; then vegetal bitterness before a clean dry finish. A pleasant English attempt at an APA, but not the best.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Aug 2016
at 08:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg tap at the Port Jackson (JDW), Bishopโs Stortford. Mid-gold, cloudy with a gentle white head. Orchard and tropical fruits in the aroma with some sweet candied malt notes. Bittersweet taste leaning toward the sweet. Apricot and shortbread with pronounced bitter hop in the long finish. A masterful APA.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jun 2016
at 11:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Bootlegger, High Wycombe, 12/09/15. Clear golden amber with a decent off white covering. Nose is caramel, light pine, bitter orange, straw, faint mango. Taste comprises bitter sweet tropicanic pulp, pine, Mandarin, orange pith, soft bread dough. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Decent cask pale, nice juicy hop ring.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Sep 2015
at 01:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Boot, st Albans. Clear deep golden light amber coloured pour with a thin fading off white head. Aroma is diesel_, caramel and pine, a bit dirty. A like it. Flavour is composed of semi sweet base grains, onion dank hop, tangy tangerine rind. Some pine needle hop resin. Palate is semi sweet, hop resin, moderate carbonation. Light caramel in the finish. Pretty good.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2015
at 15:18
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Gravity cask at the Bree Louise, London. Pours a rich, clear orange-amber with a mild cream head. Great hop aroma, tons of fresh grapefruit and pine, along with minor bread notes. Flavor is dominated by the hops, with a pronounced bitterness consisting of orange, grapefruit, dirt and pine. There are light malt undertones. Medium to full in body with fine to average carbonation. The finish is resinous and bitter, with very faint caramel sweetness. Superb beer. I almost feel like Iโm back in the States.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Oct 2010
at 14:36