Virtuoso
Lord Hobo Brewing Company in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.25
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Seek Perfection! A Virtuoso is not satisfied with great; she seeks perfection. This beer was crafted to show you our journey to create the very best. As we grow and improve our craft it shines through in this beer. The aromas will capture you instantly and the fruit flavors will commandeer your taste buds. Each sip will beg the next. Seek perfection in everything you do and you too can be a Virtuoso.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can pour into shaker pint glass. Appearance is hazy dark yellow-light brown with light sparkle, finger-width off-white fizzy white head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is tropical fruit, herbal/arm pit, hint of resin, malty backbone. Taste is fruit, earthy bitter second half, underlying biscuity malt. Palate is medium bodied with smooth, thick texture, soft-to-average carbonation with late lively zip to the tip of the tongue, dry, bitter finish. Overall, too bad flavor didn't have the interest of the aroma. Still, aroma, taste and palate all change somewhat throughout, which makes it interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Aug 2018
at 02:29
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From tap at the brewpub. Hazy yellow orange color with white head. Malty and hoppy aroma, grass, floral, stone, tropical and citrus fruits, wheat, caramel. Sweet and bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Aug 2018
at 14:43
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ the Sampler. Cloudy bright yellow with large foamy off-white head, sweet citrus aroma, adequate carbonation, mildly bitter citrusy taste with a bit of mango, smooth body, long finish. Very smooth and balanced as I had expected.
Tried
on 18 Aug 2018
at 10:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Canned 6.6, drunk 6.24.18.
Maize-lime-bronze. Cloudy to soupy. White head to a ring. Lime, pine, nectarine and green hop are prominent in the nose. Tangerine juice shows lightly, but it's not super aromatic and is actually kind of yeasty. But not resinous or scalliony, at least.
Pineapple-heavy and also maltier than their others, with good honey-like notes and depth, as well as engaging carbonation. Typical lime-mango with lots of pine accents and light astringency but still not unbalanced. Very green hop still for 18 days. Must have been brutal fresh. Pineapple lingering with cantalouoe and bubble gum yeast. Spicy bitterness as well. Pretty good. Clean at least. Not thin like all of their other beers, thank god.
Maize-lime-bronze. Cloudy to soupy. White head to a ring. Lime, pine, nectarine and green hop are prominent in the nose. Tangerine juice shows lightly, but it's not super aromatic and is actually kind of yeasty. But not resinous or scalliony, at least.
Pineapple-heavy and also maltier than their others, with good honey-like notes and depth, as well as engaging carbonation. Typical lime-mango with lots of pine accents and light astringency but still not unbalanced. Very green hop still for 18 days. Must have been brutal fresh. Pineapple lingering with cantalouoe and bubble gum yeast. Spicy bitterness as well. Pretty good. Clean at least. Not thin like all of their other beers, thank god.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Aug 2018
at 13:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Stone Brewing - Liberty Station, San Diego. Pours hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma of light malt, grass, rich tropical fruit, peach, mango, citrus, grapefruit. Flavor is light bitter, malt, rich fruity hops, tropical fruit, citrus. Medium to full body, average carbonation, light bitter finish with a little warming alcohol. 290718
Tried
on 04 Aug 2018
at 11:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Pour Judgment, pours / cloudy bright orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out resinous hops, with chewy caramel malt and bready notes. Flavour is very chewy, with caramel malt and rich resinous hops. Chewy and malt, and a bit too sweet for my tastes, but it works well.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jul 2018
at 22:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
16 oz.'can thanks the Chalmeaux, thanks TJ! Hazy yellow with thin white lasting head. Earthy hops, bitter grassy with a slight astringent aftertaste. Actually, sampled this in a blind taste test. Scored a 3.3.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2018
at 23:39