Pompeii Beach
Toppling Goliath Brewing Company in Decorah, Iowa, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.12
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Popped, but somehow not exploded can that needed to be drunk as soon as possible. Ridiculously hazy golden and peach coloured glowing body that shows about 90 per cent opacity with a thick two to three centimetre tall off-white head that stays afloat for a while. Aroma of super rich and pungent pineapple, guava, mango, orange and passionfruit tropical fruits with a little dose of bitterness, a lot of malts, lactose and wheat also here, but the sweetness and pure fruitiness really shines through in the nose. Medium to Full-bodied; Rich malt and lactose flavours show a lot at first with a big sweetness from the residual sugars and some light hoppiness coming through, but not from the alpha acids or bitterness, but purely from the tropical fruits with some guava and especially mango notes. Aftertaste is very rich still, with the sugars and light wheat coming through and a good chunk of lactose still here, as evident from the plentiful sweetness on the end and of course the chunky opacity here. Overall, a very rich and potent beer with a ton of fruit flavours that hit their mark relatively nicely, but a bit too pineappley and mangoey with no real notes of bitterness or what an 'IPA' should even be - this easily hits more as a Fruit Beer than anything else. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Hy-Vee in Madison, Wisconsin on 04-August-2021 for US$3,49 that popped up a bit, but was sampled a few days after noticing it, on 01-November-2021 at my house here in Washington.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
1 pint can. Pours a dull amber with moderate head. Aromas of mashed pineapple, soft mango, candied orange and a little dank hops. Fruity sharp flavors follow same but without the hops. Most emphasis on pineapple. Really nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours hazy gold with a huge foamy white head. Aroma of pineapple, mango and orange. Med body. Fruity and a bit sweet. Flavor matches the aroma. A little tart; a little bitter. Refreshing - beach beer for sure.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Pours hazy golden, small off white head, minimal lacing. Aroma is full of pineapple and mango. Flavor is medium sweet, fruity. No real ipa character left. Merlin body, low carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can (6/16/21) from The Beer Store, Nashua. It's an opaque light brown with trace sparkle, finger-width off-white foamy head with poor retention and trace lacing. Aroma is surprising mix of sweet and tart fruit. Taste is strong overripe pineapple (like pineapple glaze for a pound cake) with some tart rind, mango, late malt. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth, thick texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, the pineapple is too sweet but tartness doesn't really fit. As noted below, seems like has gone over to a fruit beer than a NEIPA. TG went too far with this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pint can from Woodman's Appleton, 8/25/21. Murky orange, large foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of lemon and pineapple, pale malt. Taste is pineapple, mango, pale malt. More tropical fruit. Juicy, no bitterness. Not really an IPA in any way, even an NEIPA But its an AWESOME fruit beer!