Missouri Lean
Gilman Brewing Company in Berkeley, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Regular|
Score
6.95
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A tremendously unbalanced example of the Imperial IPA, released once yearly for SF Beer Week. Massive light malt bill produces a shockingly light bodied and crisp base upon which we unapologetically dumped an ungodly amount of unsuspecting Mosaic, Simcoe, Cascade and Amarillo hops. Poor hops. At least they were drunk by the time they hit the bottom of the tank… Sit back and savor the massive tropical hop aroma. Enjoy the crisp, light malt backbone that can’t possibly balance out the assertive, clean bitterness and the hop flavor explosion of sharp tropical fruit, juicy citrus, and some dank, dank, dank. Just remember to pace yourself or you might end up at the Missouri Lounge with John, Sean and Tim watching a guy perform card tricks at 2AM…
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bb (18337) reviewed Missouri Lean from Gilman Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Summer fruit and grapefruit aroma. Summer fruit and citrus flavor with backing malt. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Summer fruit and citrus linger with backing malt.
Ibrew2or3 (10793) reviewed Missouri Lean from Gilman Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft pours up with a crystal clear copper body that supports a thin white head of foam. The modest aroma offers up grassy, pine, grapefruit and a mild sense of the base malts. The taste delivers smooth yet bitter pine, grassy herbs and bitter grapefruit hoppiness. To midway it picks up floral hop bitterness as the malts well up to a near caramel sweet level. Not a perfect beer but fun sipper.