5.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Pours an orange-y amber from a bottle. Big citrus aroma. Flavor is a mix of grapefruit and tangerine, as promised. Implied sweetness up front is bulldozed by bitterness and a dry finish lasting long after the swallow. Okay beer.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

4 oz pour on draft at Spacebar. Clear golden orange with off-white head. Aromas of orange citrus, light floral, candied citrus. Tastes of citrus, tropical fruit, candied orange, malt, light floral. Medium body with a dry finish.

6

Dangerous.

5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Thanks Brian for the 12 ounce bottle share. Fresh bottle of 9/19/2016. Clear yellow color, little bit of settlement floating around. Aroma is lots of perfumey or... Fruity "old lady’s perfume" if you will. Wow... Not tempting at all.

The flavor is just like the aroma; again perfume mixed with fruit. Bitterness is moderately strong. Well, if you want to drink your grandmother’s perfume, this is a great option. Maybe this recipe needs to be reworked

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a sly burnt orange to amber color. Light transparency about it. Carbonation rising at a decent pace. One ring of lace sticks to the side after a finger’s worth of white foamy head dissipates.
The aroma takes in some grapefruit rind bitterness. Sugary malts start off with the grapefruit rind bitterness but do have some components that don’t seem to come together. It wavers a bit, doesn’t seem to hold the bitterness in there. Apricot is there.
The flavor leans sweet with the sugars, citrus pulp, and apricot. Malt residue aftertaste with a quick sweet finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability about it. Carbonation feels very light allowing the sweetness to almost become cloying.
Overall, I like regular Limbo better. The malt backbone in that seems to embrace the body better, this is borderline cloying in the feel and leans to the sweet side and doesn’t keep the bitterness to embrace the aroma. I like the idea, though I don’t see this as a failure, it’s just not as balanced as I believe most hopheads would want.