IPA - Ruby Red Grapefruit
Spellbound Brewing in Mount Holly, New Jersey, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.82
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught at the brewery, 10/9/16 with KBHess.
Soft haziness to this peach-golden beer. White head atop is small but firm.
The nose has light grapefruit but it’s quite different than the "grapefruit" you get from PNW hops and it’s quite mild and fruity here. The IPA itself adds a moderate suggestion of bitterness, no resin and is backed by soft, biscuity and vanilla-honey tinged base malts. No alcohol or flaw with a huge fruitiness and only light pine/grapefruit hop notes.
In the mouth it’s dry, with cracker and biscuit-like malts coming late and adding a gentle sweetness. Thankfully, it doesnt take much to balance the beer, as it’s not overly bitter and certainly nowhere near overdone on the grapefruit addition. Low but somewhat prickly carbonation. Very easy drinking and drinks lighter even than its actual size. Very clean.