The Fiend Australian IPA
Hop Nation Brewing Co in Footscray, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA Regular|
Score
6.73
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at the Alehouse Project, Melbourne. Poured a hazy straw colour with a frothy white head. The aroma is malt, grassy woody, light resin hop. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a light, crisp, malt, dry pepper spice, light metallic, big woody hop bitter palate and a long bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 330ml. Hazy, dark-golden colour. White, frothy head. Poor lacing. Aroma is poor, delicate hoppy, fruity, malty but nothing special. Malty with low bitterness in taste. Light and drinkable but that is all about this beer and additionally beer seems to be old because there is bad note in aroma like from hospital so the rating could be undervalued.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From a 330ml bottle on 29/1/2016. Pours a medium golden with a medium head. Has a light floral, tropical, citrussy aroma. Starts with some biscuity malt, followed by sweet tropical and stone fruit (peach and pineapple). The bitterness is firm and dry, with a hint of harshness. Medium bodies with average carbonation. All up, a bit rough but not too bad at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours amber with a small head.Noose shows biscuity malt alongside massive spicy, floral and herbal hops. Very clean.More Marris Otter-like biscuity malt as a flavour along with heaps of spicy, piny and herbal hops.Could use higher carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pale amber with a white head. Aroma of kumquats, passionfruit, gooseberry, a little honeyed hay. Fairly light bodied, slightly creamy with lowish carbonation. A little caramel and plenty of citrus and tropical flavours - grapefruit as well as kumquat, lime leaf, more passionfruit than gooseberry, some honeydew melon. Fairly bitter at the end. Seems as much NZ as Australian - that Sauv Blanc-y thing comes though in spite of what is presumably mostly Galaxy. Pretty good, certainly one of the hoppier Australian beers I’ve tried.