Nelson Universe
Makemake Brewing Co. in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England 🏴
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Series|
Score
7.58
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All Nelson DIPA
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8.5/10
Tried
on 08 Nov 2025
at 16:30
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
keg at the big swally 2025 ...hazy amber ...thin white lacing ..soft sweet cheese floral fruit nose ..big soft green sweet chalky green hop
Tried
on 25 Oct 2025
at 14:43
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Can at home from Fuss Club. Hazy to cloudy orange with a thick tight whitehead. Aroma and taste are fruity slight topical and dank balanced bittersweet. Smooth rich body.
Tried
from Can
from The Fuss Club
on 05 Sep 2025
at 18:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml can online from HoTM. Pours hazed orange with white foam. Aroma: gooseberries, stone fruits, white grape, dank. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, guava, lychee, gooseberries, white grape, pine resin. Medium body with fine carbonation. Solid Nelson gear.
Tried
from Can
from Trembling Madness Online Shop
on 22 Aug 2025
at 21:58
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can at home in Barbados, 17th August 24. Pours a straw hazy yellow. Aroma is dank, skunky, grass, grapes. Taste is skunky, earthy, spice, grapes, dank, lovely stuff
Tried
from Can
on 17 Aug 2024
at 20:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sweetish, creamy and dankish with loads of vinous grapey Nelson hoppiness, tropical fruits, citrus and grapefruit, hints of pine and grass. Quite intensely hoppy but a bit unbalanced
Tried
on 07 Jul 2024
at 20:55
7/10
Tried
on 24 Jun 2024
at 20:15
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Panda at home, thanks to Kenneth, 15/06/24. Hazed orange with a well presented lasting white crown. Nose is gooseberries, dank chimes, solid Nelson streak of piss rip, green berry must, guava, stoned fruits. Taste comprises guava, lychee, gooseberries, hop spice, pine resin, dank chimes, grass, soft malts. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with punchy Nelson laden resinous hop bitterness. Solid Nelson fayre.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2024
at 17:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
8th June 2024
Can. Hazy orange gold beer, small and fairly short lived pale cream colour head. Palate is light and mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light smooth pale malts, a reasonable creamy sweetness but there is a fair amount of hop skunk to do battle with here, along with mild hop spice. Soft pine into a decent winey gooseberry. Almost as good as it gets these days. More hop spice on the smooth and semi dry finish. If the skunk could be dialled down to let the unique NS flavours shine a bit more, this would be a top notch brew. But given the faded intensity of NS these days, that maybe an impossible ask.
Can. Hazy orange gold beer, small and fairly short lived pale cream colour head. Palate is light and mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light smooth pale malts, a reasonable creamy sweetness but there is a fair amount of hop skunk to do battle with here, along with mild hop spice. Soft pine into a decent winey gooseberry. Almost as good as it gets these days. More hop spice on the smooth and semi dry finish. If the skunk could be dialled down to let the unique NS flavours shine a bit more, this would be a top notch brew. But given the faded intensity of NS these days, that maybe an impossible ask.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jun 2024
at 17:03
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml can. Murky yellow, white head. Aroma is vinous, white wine, grape, gooseberry and some earthy notes. Taste is very vinous, white wine, grape, very dank, gooseberry, some citrus, herbal. Full bodied, soft, smooth. As good as this is the Citra one seems unbeatable right now.
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2024
at 16:30