Sonar Bamboo
Polly's Brew Co. in Mold, Flintshire, Wales 🏴
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.94
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Given that it’s a hop combo that’s followed us all the way from those very early days of scooping up awards at the Chester Beer Awards before we’d even launched as a commercial brewery all the way up to the present day, Citra and Simcoe is a hop combo that is pretty difficult to beat. Sonar Bamboo takes our all time favourite pairing, matching the dry hop bill to that magical IPA we brewed for the Little Summer Beer Bash in 2018, and adds an extra element of high juice with the addition of Australian hype hop Vic Secret. A beer that shouts all things Polly’s, expect to find an absolute fruit salad of huge mango and papaya notes from Simcoe, with clean pineapple and passionfruit a-plenty brought to the table by Vic Secret, before rounding out with grapefruit bitterness from our old pal, Citra.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Draught Small, snowwhite head over fully hazy darker yellow beer. Dried pine branches, dried kitchen herbs, straw, citruspeel. Orangeconcentrate. Quite fruity onset with a dry, cardboard-y bitter finish. After some time, the dry straw flavour intensifies, making it bone dry. Medium carbonation at best; very slick, hopoily. Quite good!
Tried
from Draft
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 21 Jun 2025
at 07:49
7/10
A hazy bright deep golden beer with a white head. Aroma of oranges, juicy hops, yeast, oat. Taste of sweet stone fruits, oranges, grapefruit, tangerine.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 May 2025
at 21:18
7/10
Hoppy and fruity, a bit seeet. Tropical fruit with citrus, quite soft and light, some mild bitterness in the finish. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Apr 2025
at 13:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap@Taphouse, Copenhagen (22/10/2022) - Punchy juicy exotic and tropical fruity action, lots of papaya and mango, pink grapefruit, cantaloupe, citrus rind, sweet malty backing, piney balanced bitter hoppy finish. Lovely.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Nov 2022
at 20:58
7/10
Tried
on 15 Sep 2022
at 16:37
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Murky yellow. Diacetyl, buttered popcorn, some hops, sweetish, strong bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Aug 2021
at 16:58