Refuge IPA - Mandarin
Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company in Gilbert, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Special|
Score
7.25
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Our West Coast IPA brewed with Centennial, Cascade, Columbus and Mandarin Barvaria Hops and 100lbs of Mandarins from Steadfast Farm and 8lbs of zest.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits a slightly hazed copper body that supports a tan head that leaves behind some sheet lacing. The aroma offers up grapefruit, mandarin, some spicy onion and then a modest malt base. The taste delivers bitter grapefruit, a modest spicy onion note and then a firmly mild level of bitter and juicy mandarin citrus. The bitterness grows midway and into the finish. Pretty solid but it seemed the citrus treatment could have been bigger. Still a damn tasty IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Apr 2016
at 22:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at the brewpub in Gilbert, Arizona. The pour is a slight haze golden orange with a smaliish foamy white head. The aroma is bright citrus hop right away, touch of resin, fresh mandarin fruit and a biscuit malt to balance out the hop and fruit punch. The taste is the citrus hops, paired with the semi sweet mandarin orange fruit, finishes with some of the resin grass. The malt is present and like the nose balances out the hop. The palate is medium bodied with active carbonation and a dry clean finish. Fun version of an excellent IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Mar 2016
at 09:47