Barrel House Z Bamboozled by Hops

Bamboozled by Hops

 

Barrel House Z in Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
Score
5.85
ABV: - IBU: - Ticks: 3
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6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

16oz can at home. Pours a slightly deep amber gold almost orange tinted, medium off white head. Nose is some citrus, red fruit, caramel. Flavour is bready malts, floral hops, grapefruit citrus, orange pith.

Tried from Can on 29 Jul 2019 at 02:33


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Canned 10/23/17, drunk 11/13/17.
Orange-copper color seems a bit darker than usual for a NE IPA (or a WC IPA, for that matter). Small, off-white head recedes to ring fairly steadily.
Melon, potpourri, other random floral and perfume notes baffle the senses. What the hell is going on here? I get the melon and/or watermelon must be the yeast strain they've chosen, but this smells almost as if they've added lavender, grains of paradise and elderflower.
In the mouth it's lightly spicy with quite a bit of caramel-like specialty malt character. This leads to a dull, bland, watery finish. Undermalted, thin, no softness/depth of malt. Even with more warming/breathing, the extent of flavors I get is mild melon, mild bitterness and light butter. Some light astringency, as well. Yikes.

Tried from Can on 22 Mar 2018 at 19:49


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Pours a slightly cloudy dark straw from a tap. Floral in the nose, flavor is oddly like vomit. Not my thing.

Tried from Draft on 26 Jan 2018 at 18:49