Bonus Life
Mystic Brewery in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.08
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Mansquito (19309) reviewed Bonus Life from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Beer Table To Go, GCT NYC: tap: pours hazy golden yellow with a whote head. Aroma is floral, perfume, pineapple, and tropical fruit. Not too bitter. Kind of sharp at times. Not too heavy and fairly easy to drink for a large beer. Not too sweet. Malt is sufficient to give it good body. I liked it fine.
CLW (17000) reviewed Bonus Life from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at Sunset Grill and Tap. Looks like grapefruit juice in the glass. Aroma is mild pine, juicy citrus of tangerine or grapefruit.
I got to say the center of this.brew had a juicy character with plenty of citrus. The pine makes an appearance with some flashes of grass. The bitterness is heavy and lasting, no mistake that this an Imperial / DIPA. Simply no if’s, and’s, or but’s about it. This will slap your palate down. Hard core slap in the face.
I starting to think ClarkVV only likes pilsners and lagers because this is awesome and exactly what the Brewer intended it to be. Real nice!
Amarillo (2548) reviewed Bonus Life from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
på Ingefärsmannen. Gingerman Manhattan Ljus å ganska grumlig. Doftar Woow mycket ananas lite persika . Smakar? Annans och vingummin därefter kommer en grapeaktig beska. Riktigt mjuk å krämig i munnen. Denna Dipa dööö!!!! 9% otroligt kunde inte ana. Så ja Köööp
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Bonus Life from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draught at Sunset Grill, 2/13/16.
Kicked right as we got to Mystic, but thankfully and coincidentally, our next stop randomly had it on.
Deep yellow-bronze body is topped by a sizable white head with moderate retention and a strong haziness.
Floral, perfume-like hop notes, with herbs, light sprucey-pine and dry pineapple. Citrus and more easygoing tropical fruit qualities are here, but the finish, especially with warming and as the glass gets lower, gets a little bit resinous. Didn’t realize this was 9% abv. Doesn’t show through tremendously, but it’s certainly notable. Light breadiness from the malts in the background.
Starts out with juicy, moderately citric qualities, with a grassy-floral character not usually seen in the NE IPA. Malts add light toasted character and bitterness picks up significantly from start to finish, to the point of being fatiguing, unfortunately. Would be really nice if they cut the bittering hop in half and reduced the alcohol a bit. Not a big Equinox hop fan, so maybe that’s more the problem here? Not sure. Really want to try Orange Dinosaur.