Mood: Flourish
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company in Elmsford, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.52
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Super hazy golden and straw coloured body with a decent three centimetre all off-white head with rather large-bubbles that fades quickly above the 90 per cent opaque raw honey body. Aroma of grass, perfume, light grapefruit, lemons, yeast, dough and some rather strong white wine (like Sauvignon Blanc) grapes. Medium-bodied; Rich perfumey and dry, grassy, herbal and especially floral notes dominate and are quite pungent with a lot of hop bitterness along with a pretty noticeable pepper and floral maltiness here that ends with a dry finish and NO sweetness. Aftertaste shows a lot of dry, grassy and perfumey notes with some grapefruit and lemony pungency and astringency without much malt support and absolutely no sweetness. Overall, a rather one-sided, pungent, dank, dry, bitter and extremely peppery, astringent beer with tons of hops, some citrus fruit notes, but no sweetness, not much malts and a big dose of pepper, white wine grapes and especially flowers. I was hoping for a much better beer, with one other from this series VERY good, but this was much worse and not exciting at all, it will make me re-evaluate buying any more from this series after this one, sadly! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Altamonte Springs, Florida on 01-January-2023 for US$4,99, canned on 17-May-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 26-February-2023.