Candlepin
Castle Island Brewing Company in Norwood, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.75
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From can. Tropical fruit and citrus aromas. Medium bodied with soft cracker and hay upfront turning to bitter peel in the lasting finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours an amber from the tap, nice lemony aroma, flavor is similar with a little biscuit thrown in there, not literally of course, ha ha ha. Ha. Where was I? Oh, the bottom of the beer. I’m a little drunk.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can shared tonight at the meeting. Slightly hazy small off white head. Light earthy resinous with a light astringent hop character to it . Session IPA’s I just don’t get it.
CLW (16859) reviewed Candlepin from Castle Island Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz. can spilt by Brian, thanks Willrunforbeer. Slightly hazy dirty golden color. Aroma is big mosaic influence. Weedy, Danky, and grassy.
< br> The flavor shows the hops is a grassy note upfront with marijuana and grassy notes coming in on the backend. Pale grain body with a crisp mouthfeel. Nice lively carbonation level. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised on how bright and clean this is. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured from can thanks Willrunforbeer hazy golden with a thin white head. Aromas of hoppy resin citrus and floral tones. Taste is sweet up front with a nice citrusy punch and has a lingering hop bitterness in the finish.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Candlepin from Castle Island Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Fort Point Market, undated, but newly in-stock, drunk 1/15/16.
Initially large, white head slowly fades to cover atop a clear, light-amber-golden body with plentiful carbonation.
Light leafy, herbal and softly citric hops greet the nose, with light bread, biscuits and just a pinch of honey behind it. Very light stone fruit, some sweatiness (not unpleasant) and a touch of melon. Clean, no alcohol and not just another cookie-cutter IPA. This one has some interesting/unique things going on and doesn’t just bombard with citrus or tropical fruit.
Flavor is equally clean with a healthy dose of carbonation. Not terribly tight and creamy and it doesn’t seem bottle conditioned, nor does it have that soft, supple, highly unfiltered mouthfeel. Texture aside, though, it has plentiful stone fruit, lemon, melon and herbal hop qualities that are all highly drinkable with no resin or obnoxious bitterness. Malts are well-attenuated. Very encouraging!!