Unknown Seas
Track Brewing Co. in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England 🏴
Collab with: Garage ProjectIPA - New England / Hazy Series
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Score
7.47
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Our Digital NZ series concludes with us collabing with another hop grower-brewery duo from New Zealand - and what a duo!
Freestyle Hops, from their two farms in Nelson, grow some of the finest hops this planet has to offer.
The double dry-hopping of this DDH IPA is spearheaded by Freestyle's Mega Terps - a terpene-optimised Phantasm blend which presents itself as juicy pineapple and passionfruit. Riwaka, Motueka and Peacharine bring up the stern with sweet citrus, fleshy apricot and dank herbaceousness.
Freestyle's cutting edge hop breeding programme is run in partnership with Garage Project, based in Aro Valley, Wellington. Since 2011, Pete and Ian Gillespie & Jos Ruffell have grown the brewery from 50 litre batches to the institution it is today, and we think this beer echoes their innovation, creativity and adventure.
Freestyle Hops, from their two farms in Nelson, grow some of the finest hops this planet has to offer.
The double dry-hopping of this DDH IPA is spearheaded by Freestyle's Mega Terps - a terpene-optimised Phantasm blend which presents itself as juicy pineapple and passionfruit. Riwaka, Motueka and Peacharine bring up the stern with sweet citrus, fleshy apricot and dank herbaceousness.
Freestyle's cutting edge hop breeding programme is run in partnership with Garage Project, based in Aro Valley, Wellington. Since 2011, Pete and Ian Gillespie & Jos Ruffell have grown the brewery from 50 litre batches to the institution it is today, and we think this beer echoes their innovation, creativity and adventure.
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7/10
Smooth, herbal and piney with hints of dankness, sweaty hoppiness, floral notes and citrus, some grapefruit and sweetness in the finish but lacking bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Mar 2025
at 16:59
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
440ml can online from Cork & Cask, Edinburgh. Pours murky yellow gold with white foam. Aroma: peach, lime, gooseberry, grapefruit. Taste: towards moderate sweet & bitter, over-ripe tropical & stone fruits, nicely dank. Medium+ body with fine carbonation. Another NZ hopped beaut from Track.
Tried
from Can
from
Cork & Cask
on 28 Feb 2025
at 22:05
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2025
at 16:57
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
440ml can. Murky yellow gold, white head. Aroma of papaya, peach, lime, grapefruit. Taste of ripe tropical fruits, peach, passionfruit, papaya, lime, grapefruit, some gooseberry and dank notes to round it out. Medium-full bodied. Another banger.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Feb 2025
at 22:50
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Eltham Wines. Nose is pineapple, sweetcorn, lime, gooseberry jam, passionfruit, grapefruit. Taste is an amalgamation of the above with some sweet citrus coming through in the back end. Full on fruit laden hoppy finish. Rather nice.
Tried
from Can
from
Eltham Wines
on 21 Feb 2025
at 21:08
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours milky murky pale yellow gold with a head that vanishes to lacing. Aroma is gooseberry, pissy, skunky hop, loads of fresh citrus fruit. Taste is gooseberry, loads of juicy tropical fruit, pissy skunky hop adds bitterness to a huge juicy finish. Lovely stuff
Tried
from Draft
at
Track
on 15 Feb 2025
at 13:33
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 14 Feb 2025
at 17:29