Pancaketown
Kent Falls Brewing in Kent, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.87
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Blueberry maple buckwheat IPA
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at Tip Tap Room, 8/17/17.
Light haziness in this drab, rust/copper-tinted golden beer. Moderate retention to the off-white head.
Very light blueberry mixes with a surprising amount of green, leafy, spicy hop character. Definite cereal grain character behind begins to shape a picture of a hoppy panacake? I mean, I can see the conception here and the nutty, cereal and biscuit character of the buckwheat certainly works well towards that end, while the hops show just a little bit more grapefruit and pine than I'd prefer, with warming. But it's not messy or overdone on anything.
The first thing I get is the "thick" texture. It's kind of like drinking a liquified, chewy pancake, again, the buckwheat really seeing to that. Strong bitterness enters the picture; lots of grapefruit and moderate pine forming more of a West Coast IPA impression. Blueberry is very moderate and there is some saccharine-like sweetness on the finish. Lime zest character lingers on alongside grainy, nutty and cereal-like buckwheat character. For a somewhat novelty beer, they did a very nice job executing it, regardless if it's your thing or not (can't say I loved it, personally).
Light haziness in this drab, rust/copper-tinted golden beer. Moderate retention to the off-white head.
Very light blueberry mixes with a surprising amount of green, leafy, spicy hop character. Definite cereal grain character behind begins to shape a picture of a hoppy panacake? I mean, I can see the conception here and the nutty, cereal and biscuit character of the buckwheat certainly works well towards that end, while the hops show just a little bit more grapefruit and pine than I'd prefer, with warming. But it's not messy or overdone on anything.
The first thing I get is the "thick" texture. It's kind of like drinking a liquified, chewy pancake, again, the buckwheat really seeing to that. Strong bitterness enters the picture; lots of grapefruit and moderate pine forming more of a West Coast IPA impression. Blueberry is very moderate and there is some saccharine-like sweetness on the finish. Lime zest character lingers on alongside grainy, nutty and cereal-like buckwheat character. For a somewhat novelty beer, they did a very nice job executing it, regardless if it's your thing or not (can't say I loved it, personally).
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jan 2018
at 14:57