Tumbleroot Honey Double IPA
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery in Sante Fe, New Mexico, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.55
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Tumbleroot, pours an opaque bright yellow with a small white head. Aroma is chalky, with muddled earthy hops and stone fruit pulp - ugh. Flavour is muddled and chalky, with fermented out honey, earthy hops, and bready malt. Way too muddled, with poor hop expression; the honey doesn't help. Not good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
One of a handful of beers to come home with me after a recent visit to Santa Fe, a brewer I am unfamiliar with as is the brew, obviously. A 500 ml bottle, 8.9% abv on the label, now opened and pouring into my Great Heights snifter. I see a semi-opaque, gold-red liquid finished by a small head of silvery white foam. The nose is enticing, lightly hoppy, input from the honey and some alfalfa. The taste is moderately hoppy for a dipa, malt, varnish and just a hint of mango sweetness and the same with a bitterness. Interesting.