Fastback Racer™
Bear Republic Brewing Company in Cloverdale, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Rotating|
Score
7.27
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle. Amber orange pour. Small creamy beige head. Toasted malt nose is redolent of dank citrus and caramel. Intense bittersweet grapefruit notes. Warming alcohol immediately noticeable. Dank and bitter. Intense peppery hop finish. This is a heavy duty hop bomb!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Hair of the Dog, Phrom Phong, Bangkok. Poured a hazy copper colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is light toffee caramel malt, pine needle, resin, big woody hop. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a malt, light fruit, warm alcohol, big woody hop bitter palate and a long bitter finish. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
32oz crowler pours with a clear copper body that supports a thin dirty white head of foam. The modest aroma offers up a blend of malts, pine hops and a bit of citrus. The taste delivers robust levels of malt blunted resiny pine hoppiness. The pine isn't sharp in bitterness but runs deep in flavor. To midway a mild bitter grapefruit note is noticed as well as malt sweetened floral hops and herbal shrubs. Nice big sipper with a fairly well hidden ABV.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 8/11/2018. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy golden orange/amber color with a 1 finger dense and rocky off white head with great retention that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, green pepper, pine, toasted bread, rye, honey, light caramel, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and rye/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, green pepper, pine, toasted bread, spicy rye, honey, light caramel, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, grassy peppery bitterness; and rye spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel/rind, green pepper, pine, toasted bread, spicy rye, honey, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy hop earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and rye/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness and rye spiciness balance; with no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitter/spiciness. Medium carbonation and medium/full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/sticky, and lightly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Mildly increasing warmth of 10.4% after the finish. Overall this is an awesome DIPA. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and rye/bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the ABV, with the modestly bitter/spicy/drying finish. No overly aggressive. Awesome Citra/Ekuanot hop showcase. Very juicy, vibrant, earthy, and dank balanced hop complexity; sizable bready malt backbone, but not overly sweet/heavy from lingering dryness. A really enjoyable offering, well made style example. Loved the hop profile as expected.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at RB Best Festival, 31/01/16. Golden orange with a decent off white covering. Nose is pine needle, pithy citrics, apricot jam, grapefruit. Taste comprises caramel, apricot, spice, toasted malts, grapefruit zest, pine resin. Medium plus body, fine carbonation, semi drying close splashed with a sticky hop load of tropical jizz. Decent boosty DIPA.
bb (18428) reviewed Fastback Racer™ from Bear Republic Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and tropical fruit aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor with tropical fruit and caramel. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and caramel linger with tropical fruit and light pine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours hazy gold into a shaker. White head with medium retention recedes leaving soapy spiders. Caramel and resin aromas. Sweet with caramel and resin front to back. Lasting hot caramel finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pour is a hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is a dank pine resin hop that I could smell as I was pouring this out of the bottle. I also get some honeycomb sweetness. Flavor is some melon and citrus hop. Not a huge sweetness comes out but this beer is bitter as all get out. After the swallow not a huge hop presence is felt but there is no alcohol felt as well. Flavorful impy IPA but 100 ibu’s is felt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at Ratebeer Best Beer Festival. 31/01/2016. A bright clear orange coloured pour with loose white head. Aroma is alcohol, caramel malts, sticky pine needles, toasted pine and strawberry. Flavour is composed of caramel base malts, sticky pine and hop resin, orange rind. Palate is sticky hop resinous, moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From bomber to tulip. Moderate spiciness and hops are restrained. Flavor includes malty sweetness and both flavor and aroma a have some harsh fusal aspects. Moderately cloying.