West Coast Keller - Citra
Newbarns Brewery in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Cold Regular|
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6.83
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Inspired by our lager brewing contemporaries from the west coast of the US. A super hop-forward, aromatic and modrn take on the kellerbiers of Europe. A complete departure from tradition.
We built WCK with our favourite approach to a super sinkable light lager, an already lean beer with a handful of rice. We then fermented warmer, lagered shorter and left the beer ever so slightly cloudier than usual. We typically aim for a very restrained yeast expression in our lagers, but this time we’ve really accentuated the character of our house strain.
Many bags of Citra hops later and we’ve got one of the most archetypally Newbarns beers we’ve ever made. Thumbs up all round.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Clear golden colour nice crispy bitterness flavour of grass and hops nice fresh and good crispy and fresh taste note of pine and citrus well balanced and mild finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Can from Appellation Wines. Pale golden body with a light haze and a few flecks beneath a thin white head. Lively carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of grass, lemongrass and white bread. Flavour of lime jelly and a grassy finish. Medium body with a slick texture. Light fizz. This is crisp and bitter but a bit one dimensional.
Scopey (25115) reviewed West Coast Keller - Citra from Newbarns Brewery 9 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can direct from Newbarns. It pours clear pale yellow with a small dissipating white head. The aroma is fresh, quite green, grassy, herbal, melon, savoury, cracker, greengage, cucumber and pissy accents. The taste is super firm, dry, crispy, pleasing level of bitterness, green, grassy, herbal, fragrant, floral, straw, pissy and crackery malt with a drying finale. Average body and fine carbonation. Quite a green, grassy number. Enjoyable anyhow.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Can thanks to McCash. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of lime zest and resin. More resin on the taste, some green herbs. A little watery.
McCash (16021) ticked West Coast Keller - Citra from Newbarns Brewery 11 months ago
Can from Appellation Wines.
Appearance - golden and clear. White head.
Nose - green note like dill. Also, lime zest, resin and light bread note.
Taste - very resinous, green plant stalks and some citrus zest.
Palate - light bodied and bitter finish.
Overall - good, not the usual from Newbarns but still good.