Numbskull Imperial IPA - 8 - Tasman
Lighthouse Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.96
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Numbskull is our rotating Imperial IPA series, where we explore a new dominant hop bill with each batch. In this 8th edition, we throw-back to our now-retired Tasman Pale Ale. Using Ella, Vic Secret, and Moteuka hops from Tasmania and New Zealand’s Tasman Bay, this Numbskull has inviting tropical flavours of fresh lime and passionfruit, with a refreshing bitter finish.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
650 ml bottle. Pours a copper color with light head. Aromas of jammy fruit, pineapple, resin, and sweet bready malts. Flavors of dank piney resin, marmalade, bitter pineapple and biscuity malts. Bitter finish. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2020
at 23:59
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
650mL bottle, pours a clear copper with a small beige head. Nose is full of chewy resinous hops, lots of caramel and some pine. Flavour is very bitter, with lots of resinous and piney hops, caramel malt, and immense bitterness on the finish. Bitter as hell but tastefully so. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2020
at 02:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Legacy LRS, Vancouver
Golden to copper colour, with slight haze; medium sized compact head. It seems lighter coloured than the regular Numbskull, and this is good news. The hop profile is rather old school, with some resins and some orange peel; the malt is good, it's lightly sweet, a bit bready, light toast, caramel, fudge, not a crispy modern IIPA, but it's in the right direction; the bitterness is the Achille's heel of this beer, as it comes through really pithy. Strangely this beer took many weeks to be released in Vancouver, but I don't think that's the problem. Nicely conceived, but with a medium flaw in the bitterness delivery.
Golden to copper colour, with slight haze; medium sized compact head. It seems lighter coloured than the regular Numbskull, and this is good news. The hop profile is rather old school, with some resins and some orange peel; the malt is good, it's lightly sweet, a bit bready, light toast, caramel, fudge, not a crispy modern IIPA, but it's in the right direction; the bitterness is the Achille's heel of this beer, as it comes through really pithy. Strangely this beer took many weeks to be released in Vancouver, but I don't think that's the problem. Nicely conceived, but with a medium flaw in the bitterness delivery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2020
at 00:58