Suborbital
Bent Water Brewing Company in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.38
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: semi-murky orange color with a one finger white foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: candied tangerines, and other tropical fruity tones, light dose of clean malts
Flavor: sweet initially then becomes more bittersweet as it opens up; mild aftertaste of the candied tangerines
Texture: light to medium bodied, some sessionability about it. Semi-smooth along tongue but also some hop bitterness; finishes semi-crisp and that candied tangerine sort of sugary-ness
Overall: the candied tangerines seem a bit overdone/somewhat distracting, so I'm not exactly sure if I would want to reach for this again, maybe if someone handed this to me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a hazy amber from a can. Somewhat anemic aroma and flavor, generic fruit, and a little green onion maybe? Good beer, but nothing great.
tfontana (7512) reviewed Suborbital from Bent Water Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Just when it seems every permutation of style has been covered, comes this. As a self-described New England Pale Ale, they are deliberately not calling it an NEIPA, so I guess it is some form of American Pale Ale. Can pour into pub glass from Andover Classic Wines. Appearance is cloudy light yellow-orange like watered down tangerine juice, tons of effervescent sparkle on some edges of the glass, none elsewhere, with finger-plus width foamy white head with fair retention and spots of soapy lacing. Aroma is mix of sweet and yeasty tart fruit (like a farmhouse) and bready malt. Taste is as aroma. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, lightly spicy, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, DEFINITELY NOT an NEIPA. New England perhaps in look only. Aroma and taste really don't seem right for a pale ale. It started confusing with the style, and pretty much stayed there.