Feral: Mosaic
Night Shift Brewing in Everett, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.81
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Jow (8309) reviewed Feral: Mosaic from Night Shift Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Can at home. Orange beer with a sudsy head. Nose is vegetal, strawberry, citrus and resin. Tastes similar strawberry, cantaloupe, scallion, resin, herbal, light pine and grapefruit. Lighter bodied. Easy drinking semi bitter. Lasting finish.
Chalumeaux (4962) ticked Feral: Mosaic from Night Shift Brewing 7 years ago
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Feral: Mosaic from Night Shift Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Canned 10/5/18, drunk 10/17/18.
Very bright, cantaloupe-brass-peach. Moderately hazy, not soupy or anything. Off-white head atop is small but shows modest retention.
Light, typical Mosaic notes of vegetal, grassy hop and scallion are somewhat timid. Not exactly an explosive aroma. Some very light, honey-like malt notes add in to the aroma, deepening and balancing it gently, but I'm not really getting much of anything. Certainly no tropical fruit or any real juiciness. No alcohol or flaw. Yeast is fairly reserved, adding gentle fruit esters and little/no bubble gum.
Flavor-wise it's on-par with the aroma, though at least does manage a reasonably soft texture, some lightly sweet malt and low bitterness. Still, the Mosaic character is pretty inelegant; showing pine, light earth, vegetal, grass and scallion notes and not much of any good notes. Good attenuation, tight carbonation. Gains a bit of lightly juicy character, with warming, mostly on account of the malt sweetness augmenting the hop character. Pretty mediocre and underwhelming. By no means is it chalk-full of scallion or resin, but it just doesn't have many positive attributes other than the soft, lightly sweet malt.