Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Average looks with a heavily carbonated body and a small darker-than-usual white head on top. Aroma is a lot of hops, softer than an IPA or something similar and very sweet hops at that. Flavour is sweet hoppiness with just a hint of malty goodness underneath. Good for sessioning, good thing I bought a six pack.
Deanf (9781) reviewed Smashbomb Atomic IPA from Flying Monkeys 13 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
I don’t know why I do this to myself.... I start rating with a bunch of similar strong lagers and pale lagers and other forgetable stuff in the morass of the mess of the beer world, and then dig deeper into the interesting stuff later on. Maybe it’s that old rule about starting with the lighter stuff first... well, to valhalla with it! I wanna try the one with the funky label! So there it is. When poured aggressively it has a solid head and a foggy copper body, perfect for an IPA if you’d ask moi. The aroma is all hops, fresh hops that smell like 30-minute and 0-minute varieties. The flavour, however, is rather subtle - not overpowering hops and a bit of a watery finish. Still good, still refreshing, but this stuff should have been in-your-face with its qualities. Instead it backs off at the end, leaving it to be "good" instead of "great". Shame.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottled at Bishop’s Arms Folkungagatan, Stockholm. Black, creamy off white head. Licorice, cocoa and grapefruit. Dryish with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Coffee with salt and cream. Mid bitter finish. More hoppy porter than IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
kind of tasteless but not that bad I guess. Especially since I drank this piss warm in a movie theatre parking lot while working some carny job in Blue Mountain. There is a taste of honeyed barley and a good dose of floating sediment at least that demonstrates its better than the average lager, though.
Lubiere (24459) reviewed Phantom of the Hopera from Flying Monkeys 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A hazed amber IPA with a thin off white head. In aroma, a roasted grainy malt with grassy hops, pungent and funky notes. In mouth, a nice oily malt, with funky and herbal hops, citrus pulp, oily mouthfeel. Cask at Ontario Cask IPA Challenge, April 21, 2012.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(on tap at Grad Club, Kingston ON) Poured cold, a dark hazy amber with a briefly-lived rocky off-white head. Aroma mostly sweet honey and caramel malts, a little hint of the flowery, fruity Amarillo hops peeks through but not much. Flavour of sweetish crystal and roasted malts with a tinny bitterness, not particularly flavourful or hoppy. Mouthfeel relatively moderate, flavours not too concentrated. Disappointing pale ale, seems to be stranded between styles and not great at any.
neongolden (4416) reviewed SuperCollider from Flying Monkeys 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(650mL bottle from LCBO) Pours a deep brownish amber with miniscule off-white head. Aroma a mess, sweet toffee malts, booze, hop resin and something like rotting fruit or a mix of ketchup and soya sauce. Not to be smelled. Flavour is a little better, very sweet malts at the start with some green hops, roast kicks in mid-palate and then the finish dries down like classic cough syrup with booze, resin and alcohol and sweet red fruit all mixed up. Long dry medicinal finish. Mouthfeel surprisingly watery with prickly carbonation. Brash, out of balance and with too many off flavours, like a DIPA that got lost and became a bad American barleywine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle, Bishop’s Arms Folkungagatan, Stockholm, 5 April 2012) Dark brown colour, almost black, with brief beige head. Roasted, malty nose with notes of chocolate, dark bread and hints of ashes. Roasted, malty taste with chocolate, dark bread, hints of ashes and a slightly piney bitterness in the finish. Medium body, fairly dry. Well balanced and very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle, Bishop’s Arms Folkungagatan, Stockholm, 12 March 2012) Dark amber colour with brief, beige head. Malty nose with caramel, red fruit, orange and citric hops. Malty, fruity taste with notes of caramel, chocolate, dried fruit and a mild citric bitterness. Medium body, with some sweetness. Tasty and well balanced but nothing extraordinary. Quite nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Has a hoppy smell with some earthiness. Smells a little of caramel as well, though I can’t detect any sweetness in the taste.Actually promises more in the smell than the taste delivers, though the taste isn’t bad by any means. Hoppy and bitter. Bottle.