Freestyle Series: Pampered Palate
O'Connor Brewing Company in Norfolk, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Series Out of Production|
Score
7.08
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An outrageously dry-hopped, juicy triple IPA with a super tropical nose and tons of peach ring and orange pith on the palate.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can pour. Super hazy pour, medium sized white head, foamy. Big tropical fruits, lots of citrus notes. Big and full-bodied. Definitely can tell there's alcohol in there, but it's not harsh at all. Orange juice, tangerine. Pleasant stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Oct 2020
at 17:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Super hazy deep orange and bronze coloured body witha nice raw honey glow and a fairly thick, two to three centimetre tall off-white head, that's microfoamed and nice. Aroma of oranges, tangerines, flowers, grass and a noticeable amount of alcohol and malt, but not overwhelming. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong juicy and orange flavours show nicely with a big malt backbone, some softer yeast and pepper flavours, but the more pungent and bitter floral and piney hop notes come through towards the end and a nice sweetness from caster sugar and a little bit of fructose from the citrus. Aftertaste is deep and robust with the bitter hops the strongest of course, but the flowers and yeast comes through towards the end and a juicy and citrusey sweetness is there as well, with less alcohol noticeable, say around eight per cent. Overall, a nice and flavourful IPA that has some juicy and light bitterness with smooth sugars, a good balance of malts and relatively smoothish alcohol bite, considering the punch. Good to sample and while not a show-stopper, a nice example of how to do a ten per cent alcohol IPA! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 12-September-2020 for US$4,99 sampled at my house here in Washington on 19-October-2020.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Oct 2020
at 05:59