The Hophead's Guide To The Galaxy (DIPA)
Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.31
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Draught at the brewery, 10/21/17.
Lightly-to-moderately hazy, "lime"-tinted bronze-golden with a medium-sized white head atop showing moderate retention.
The nose doesn't give off much either in the way of Galaxy or any real bright, spicy, tropical, mineral-laden hop. Some citrus, papaya, melon and a whole lot of base malt honey-like character with a bit of pine and grapefruit on the finish. A bit of resin, as well.
While I don't think it's as a disastrous mess of trainwreck as Josh, I do see his point; this thing is VERY malty with few and far between interesting hop notes. Light spice, some floral character, a bit of lightly dank greenery and mostly just orange rind, lightly resinous pine and a mouthful of vague acidity on the finish. Even despite the proper carbonation, it still comes off too sluggishly malty. Otherwise, no alcohol character or flaw.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
Draught @ the brewery. Looks a mess - murky dull amber with no head. I smell a big whack of galaxy...why is this not appetizing? The malts are clunky, muddled so they don't provide the necessary base for the hops. Sticky, muddled malts, and way too much alcohol. Just not happy that all those beautiful galaxy hops are wasted in sloppy, messy, unstructured beer. I just got increasingly angry trying to finish my glass.
