Fracture IIPA
Amsterdam Brewing Company (Canada) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.94
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 17
Copper and gold body with a thick fluffy white head. A dank, grassy hop nose. Hops lead the taste profile with elements of grass, resin, and to a lesser extent, ripe tropical fruit. Understated sweet malts with a hint of spice underpin the hops. The malt blossoms slightly after 4 or 5 seconds creating a solid end balance. Strong hops with a nice clean, balanced finish. Excellent beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewpub.
dark amber pour, small off white head. Aroma of pine, and some solid citrus. The malts are upfront, and quite chewy. This is basically a double boneshaker, with a huge malt bill. The finish is sweet, and chewy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours an unfiltered, hazy golden-amber colour with a frothy off-white cap, decent stay and foamy-creamy lace. Hoppy aromas of pine, citrus zest and herbal notes. The taste is quite hoppy, but not overly dry in the finish. Goes down nicely with flavours of lemongrass oil and other citrus fruits. Hints of caramel malts. Great drinkability.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From tap. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is solid grapefruity. Sweet, solid hoppy. Fruity. Grapefruity and slight pine. Dry and hoppy finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12 oz bottle, undated. Pours a hazy orange amber with an off-white head. Grapefruit aroma, tropical, grassy hops, some caramelly malt. Grassy hops, biscuit flavor. Seems like an older bottle, unfortunately. Still drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
The smell of apricot is crazy, as my non-beer geek friend Chris exclaimed. Gold amber dense but short head. Pine apricots big in the nose. Taste similarly with a little perfume and a touch of resin. Little bitter in the aftertaste. Touch sweet. Damn good.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap @Amsterdam. Pours crystal clear orange, large off-white head, creamy with nice lacing. Aroma is herbal, spruce, citrus. Flavor is light sweet and medium bitter. Medium body, lots of lingering bitterness. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
330mL bottle, sent from wilco (thanks a lot, Mike), pours a hazy copper / golden with a small white head. Nose is super dank, with loads of herbal, pot-like hops, followed by some pine and resin. Flavour matches this pretty well, with loads of dank earthy, herbal hops, followed by secondary hop notes of pine and resin, and a sufficient dry woody bready malt backing. A strange one, with loads of pot and pine. There is also an unpleasant vegetal quality to this all. I'm surprised at the high ratings for this. It's drinkable, but this isn't so great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
On tap at the brewery - hoppy tasting flight. A deep copper gold. A good floral hop nose, medium bodied with a slightly sharp mouthfeel. The taste is bitter woodsy pine - kind of one dimensional. OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at the Amsterdam Brewhouse, on the Toronto waterfront. Golden amber with a tight cream head; sweet fruity aroma; syrupy texture with a pleasnt grainy body and a herbal bitterness; the finish is long and saitsfying with some warmth.