Desert Kaleidoscope
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Bosque Brewing (NM)IPA Special
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Score
6.77
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jcwattsrugger (14787) reviewed Desert Kaleidoscope from Samuel Adams 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tight ow-g. A-pine, some lt/med m. T-pine/some floral hops, sweet lt/med malt-caramel. 847414-3.7
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Desert Kaleidoscope from Samuel Adams 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bronze color with a large fluffy orange-white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was bitter with dank resinous hops and a metallic note. The flavor was rough, metallic and earthy with piney and floral hops. Long piney finish. Medium body. Not good.
patrick767 (7169) reviewed Desert Kaleidoscope from Samuel Adams 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
tap at Ted's wine bar / beer hall, rated in June 2017 - Pours clear copper with an off-white head that laces nicely. It has a hop led aroma with pine and citrus. The flavor is similar. It's crisp and bitter with pine and citrus, a medium bodied beer with a long bitter finish. Excellent IPA.
Quick3Beers (3145) reviewed Desert Kaleidoscope from Samuel Adams 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours a dark amber, near copper from a tap. Big tropical fruit aroma, similar flavor along with some onion but not a lot of malt backbone. Good beer.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Desert Kaleidoscope from Samuel Adams 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample during the "Collaboration Beers On Deck 2!" event on 08/13/2017. Clear bronze color with a medium off-white head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Sticky strings of lacing. Aroma of piney hops, citrus and malt. Medium body with flavors of grapefruit, resiny hops and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a short citrusy hop aftertaste. Decent overall.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Desert Kaleidoscope from Samuel Adams 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Clingy little IPA, bitter but not oppressively so, with a formidable sweet malt front leading to a lingering piney back end. Starts with an unexpectedly deep honey-caramel sweetness, then quickly dries out, pinecones and citrus cranking up the IBUs before leading to a resinous, oily finish. Nice pine-n-caramel nose, and the pour's a lovely clear orange-gold with a moderate head and loads of lace. Smooth, quaffable texture, but not a great IPA.
tfontana (7277) reviewed Desert Kaleidoscope from Samuel Adams 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour into shaker pint glass from Signal Variety. Appearance is gorgeous clear copper with nice sparkle, finger-width off-white foamy head with good retention and nice soapy lacing. Aroma is dank earth, floral, light citrus over malt backbone. Taste is sweet tropical fruit, earthy resin bitterness, lighter bready caramel malts. Palate is light bodied with thin foamy texture, soft-to-average carbonation with mix of sweet fruit and earthy resin bitter finish. Overall, great qualities all around. Palate is light but taste/aroma borders on a DIPA so there's a little disconnect, not necessarily in a bad way.