Rad Arcade
Buttonwoods Brewery in Providence, Rhode Island, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.97
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tfontana (7277) reviewed Rad Arcade from Buttonwoods Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can (8/2/21) pour from Andover Classic Wines. It's a lightly hazy bright yellow with light sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is light sweet/tart citrus, Munich malts. Taste is sweet/tart citrus and white grape with mild cracker and late bitterness. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth, slick texture, no sign of alcohol, average-to-lively carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, no sign of alcohol and a little thin for the style. Neither particularly sweet nor bitter. Some Kolsch-like or saison qualities.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Rad Arcade from Buttonwoods Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned 11/12/18, purchased from the brewery 1/5/19 and drunk 1/8/19. Not gonna lie, very nervous about this being two months old. Not like the IBUs are going to hang around and keep it balanced, AMIRITE?! Anyways, if they're confident though, I'm buying.
Pours well enough. Nice and light lemon-brass-golden. Good haziness, quite heavy though not soupy. White head quickly fizzles to a ring.
And it smells pretty nice too! Lemon, apricot, biscuit, cereal, moderately fruity yeast with a healthy dose of bubble gum. All giving the fruity, creamy, rather juicy NE IPA character. There's a bit of light acidity that must be the apricot. No alcohol or flaw.
In the mouth it's soft, malty, well-attenuated with low but tight carbonation and plentiful acidity from the apricot. Seems balanced enough. Honey and biscuit emanate from the malt and it remains juicy and heavily fruity with ample bitterness on the end from the fruit. There's a bit of chalkiness, not exactly sure where from, but this is pretty god damned nice for two months old. No alcohol or flaw. Juicy, soft, balanced and with a pleasant apricot and good hop character. No resin, of course.