Head Banger - Galaxy & Mosaic
Strathcona Beer Company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Triple Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.91
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(Editor's note: this should be the 16th Head Banger)
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
473mL can, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out plenty of dank hops, stone fruit pith, some booze, and citrus zest. Flavour is bold, with lots of citrus peel bitterness, dank hops, and booze. This one is a bit harsh, finishing boozy and a bit unpleasantly bitter. Not one of the better HB's.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2023-02-28, can from The Gull, 8-4-7-2-14=35
The aroma offers strong notes of melon; the flavour too, melon, and citrus, but also some pith, bitter orange peel, it lacks of freshness, and it's definitively past its prime
2023-01-01, can from The Gull, 8-4-8-4-16=40
It's a hazy to cloudy blond, even pale maybe, looks fine. Aroma of fruits, tropical, lychee, and very light dankness. On the palate it's dry, with nice, delicate malt base; there's some powerful hopping here, some more dankness than in the nose, bitter citrus peel, light pith, and light stone fruits; strong bitterness. Could get one more point if there were no pith.
Bold but not hot, very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy and pale. Medium head. Boozy, as these sometimes are, with piney, bitter orange hop character and a thick, bready malt note. Solid effort but it's one of those Headbangers where the hops aren't as bright, and those always end up tasting a touch too boozy for me.