Lambda3
Melvin Brewing Company (Pure Madness Brewery Group) in Alpine, Wyoming, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Quadruple Regular|
Score
7.38
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft - Light sweet herbal and dank notes on the nose. Clear gold with a rich white head. Sticky sweet and big. Touch of booze and citrus oil.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
F: big, light tan, good retention. C: gold, bit hazy. A: tangerine, orange, mango, bit vinous, passion fruits. T: huge malty backbone, orange, tangerine, vinous, warming alcohol, mango, canned pineapple, decent bitterness, very good, fully enjoyed, sample @ BXLBeerFest in Brussels.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
BXLBeerfest. Pours golden. Aroma is sweet, stanky, piney, fruity. Flavor is sweet and bitter, caramel, sugar, booze, fruits. Overall: good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thank you for sharing Martinus! Sampled 355 ml. can @ BXLBeerFest 2017. Sparkling orange, white head. Nose is weird herbal grapefruit oil. Taste is heavy bitter herbal grapefruit oil, body is the same, strongly bitter, little else, interesting, intense, what you would expect from a TIPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Melvin Lambda3 (by Melvin Brewing Company):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
27/VIII/17 - sample @ BXL Beer Fest - BB: n/a (2017-1399) Thanks to the (Belgian) RB crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear orange beer, creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lovely stuff, malty touch, lots of tropical fruits, pineapple. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet malts, very fruity, tropical fruits, lots of canned pineapple, sweet mango, citrus, very sweet caramel malts. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, malty, grains, lots of tropical fruits, lovely stuff!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 fl oz can. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white hesd. Aroma is solid hoppy. Fruity. Dense hoppy. Grapefruity and peachy. Slight pine hops. Bitter and solid fruity finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
@ BXL Beer Fest. Hazy yellow colour, white foam. Very sweet fruity, lots of tropical fruit, syrup, peach, stone fruit, pine. Alcoholic, nice sipper.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can bought at BXL Beerfest. Imperial IPA with no less than ten different hop varieties, three of which I never even heard of... Thick, tightly ’membranous’ lacing, very stable, off-white, creamy head over a lightly hazy, warm and pure, lightly orangey ’old gold’ coloured beer. Dank and unsurprisingly thoroughly hoppy aroma of stale, fermenting orange juice, peaches soaked in ’jenever’, fresh grapefruit zest, marmelade, stewed shallot, ripe mango flesh, rainwater, withering green kitchen herbs, soggy biscuit, pink pepper, hints of Cointreau, ginger powder, dried wormwood leaves, fried tomatoes, honey liqueur, green olives, young cedar shoots, armpit sweat. Intense flavour, very sweet at first with a whole lot of candied orange and canned pineapple sweetness, concentrated, with a soft, dim passion fruit sourish edge thinly surrounding this core sweetness; residual sugariness keeps lingering over a biscuity malt sweet underground, in a softly carbonated, very oily, vinous physical environment. The ten hops provide a truckload of retronasal aromas, impossible to distinguish between them but generally coming across as very orangey and tropical, with lighter piney, peppery and floral notes. Hop bitterness is evidently long, spicy and resinous, but not as harsh as I have experienced in many other IIPAs, with biscuity malt ’sogginess’ still persisting; all of these finish factors are however drenched in a lot of heating, in the end even rather astringent, wodka-like alcohol, which should not come as a surprise from a 13% ABV beer - though it still could have been better hidden. The alcohol even tingles a bit on the lips. A dank, intense and very boozy, but in all relatively typical imperial IPA (rather than classically ’double’ - i.e. intense, heating, vinous and barleywine-ish), well-made with no discernible technical flaws - not that I was expecting any from this Wyoming brewery. Perhaps just a bit too boozy for me personally, but that is an issue I have with many other 10+% IIPAs - and in that context, this is among the better examples I encountered so far. Recommended to those who are into this particular style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can at BXL festival. Clear golden with white head. Some citrus hops and tropical fruits, very thick sweet malts, honey, pils malts, alcohol. Very sweet and quite bitter. Full bodied. Too much for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
5 3 6 2 10 Draft at BXL Beer Fest, Brussels ’17. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of sweat, damp clothes, caramel malt and fruity hops. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.