(collab with) Erector NHVIPA (White)
Armada Brewing in New Haven, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.57
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can in a trade with tfontana, thank you Tom. Dated 2-1-19. Although the date is smudged a bit. Flavor has a lot of cracker, orange marmalade, and slight over ripe apricot-like hints. Shows a mild herbal astringent bitterness. This maybe turning in regards to freshness but still drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can pour into taster glass from the brewery. Appearance is deeply hazy yellow/light brown with tons of sparkle, ring of off-white head with decent lacing. Aroma is lightly smoky, cracker, grape and hint of laundry basket. Taste is a distinctly acrid yeasty quality--almost like vomit--with biscuit/cracker offset by mild bitterness. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with smooth, thin texture, with mostly soft carbonation with late lively zing and a malty/hoppy balanced finish. Overall, a rare miss for this brewer. Taste goes awry in a really weird way--this can't be what Jaryllo hops brings, can it? Maybe I got part of a bad batch...