Tuatara Brewing Company APA (2010-2016)

APA (2010-2016)

 

Tuatara Brewing Company in Paraparaumu, Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production
Score
6.96
ABV: 5.7% IBU: 50 Ticks: 37
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7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Old rating from 25-09-15 - 330ml bottle, 5.8 ABV, pours a golden colour with a white head. Aromas of fruit and floral hops. Tastes is of citrus, grapefruit & dry hops with malty sweetness. Overall a very decent APA

Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2025 at 15:33


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled. Golden colour with a small white head. Aroa is fruity, some grassy and quite bready and grainy notes. Flavour is grassy bitterness, some bready/grainy notes as well as some spruce and mild fruity and floral notes. Mild bitterness in the aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2023 at 19:14


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draught at Castle Pub. Amber with a solid head. Aroma of fruity pale ale. Flavour is watery soft fruit, malt and peach, fruity dry finish.

Tried on 25 Mar 2018 at 20:11


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle at home. A nice pour and it looked inviting in the glass. There wasn't much nose and the flavour was of subdued hops and some nice balancing malt. There was subtlety here and a pleasant mouthfeel. All very pleasant.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2017 at 02:34


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Slightly hazy copper and amber coloured body with a nice three to four centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of rich malts, with a lot of caramel and toffee notes along with some grasses and hop bitterness along with some alcohol around. Medium-bodied; Strong herbal flavour at first with some tea-like flavours with a touch of yeast and alcohol around. Aftertaste shows more of a toffee and caramelised sugar like sweetness and a dose of lighter alpha acid hops showing some more English and earthier flavours. Overall, a decent APA (assuming that A means American), but not too great and way more Earthy than a typical APA, and shows more to me of an EPA with some pungent notes. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from Jason’s Market Place at Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan on 24-July-2017 for NT$145 sampled in my hotel room here in central Taipei, Taiwan on 27-July-2017.

Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2017 at 04:37


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at Højbjerg tasting. Pours slightly hazy amber with a lasting bubbly off-white head. Aroma of hop, and citrus and tropical fruit. Light sweetness, medium to heavy bitterness. Medium body, slight oily texture, average carbonation. Finish is dry and increasingly bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 08:49


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @ Johns. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, grass, fruity hops. Flavor is light bitter, malt, grass, fruity hops, light pine. Medium body, average carbonation, light bitter finish. 7-4-7-3-15. 170617

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 08:44


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 08:44


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle, 5.8%. Clear golden with medium off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hops, citrus, caramel and a little grapefruit. Flavour is malt, caramel, medium sweet, hop, grapefruit, hop and medium bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 08:43


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @ Saxo tasting. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and moderate hoppy - fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 170617

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 08:41