Grandmaster Fresh Hop MPA
Renaissance Brewing in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand 🇳🇿
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.93
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 500ml bottle on 24/8/2015. Pours a dark golden with a small head. Has a sharp sligtly pungent fruity nose. Take a sip, and it starts with big, syrupy apricot, orange and peach sweetness, with some pine and herbs, followed by a firm, quite astringent, sticky bitterness with some lingering booze. The texture is syrupy and the carbonation soft. While it has some interesting qualities, it’s a little too blunt to really charm.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2015
at 04:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle. Coppery orange amber colour, with a creamy off-white foam head leaving alittle lacing and aroma of toffee, orange, hoppy resins. Taste is sweet, bready malt, molasses, toffee, fruity with mango, orange, spicey hop and woody pine bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry malty tangy bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2015
at 13:05
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pours amber with a white head.Nose shows resinous and spicy hops along with truckloads of sweet-smelling caramel and fruit confectionery notes.Flavours includes loads of sweet clean malt and herbal, resinous hops. Perfectly balanced, very easy to drink.Could do with a bit more carbonation.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2015
at 08:43
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle at home ... hazy copper ... thin white lacing ... soft passsion ... dry zezt ... light sweet toffee malt nose ... soft juicy fruits ... soft sweet orange and tropical fruits
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2014
at 11:39