Tall Poppy Syndrome
Cellarmaker Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Original Pattern Brewing CompanyIPA - West Coast Regular
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Score
6.87
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured from a 16 oz can dated May 19, 2025.
Aroma is a bit muted with medium light hop notes of grapefruit, passion fruit, stone fruit and oily resin. Light cracker malt and alcohol notes.
Pours a clear, brilliant, gold color with a medium large, fairly thick, pillowy white head that recedes slowly but steadily to the edges where it lingers. Light lacing and small legs.
Flavor is somewhat sweet with light cracker malt notes. Medium bitterness and light alcohol notes. Moderate notes of grapefruit and tropical citrus. Much lighter notes of passion fruit, stone fruit and some lingering oily resin.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth.
Overall, it's a clean IPA with balanced bitterness, malt sweetness and alcohol. The hop notes in both the aroma and flavor are lacking though. Not sure if it's just me, but the krush and cryo products just don't do it for me.