Funk Estate
Microbrewery in Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand 🇳🇿
saxo (29721) reviewed B-Boy from Funk Estate 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can @ Højbjerg tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are mango fruits, flowers, tea, hops and malt. Light mango sour finish.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Afrogato from Funk Estate 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
330ml can. Darkest brown colour with average, thick, creamy, slowly diminishing, moderately lacing, beige to tan head. Roasty and chocolately, dark malty aroma, notes of coffee, mocha, roasted coffee beans, dark chocolate, a touch of amaretto, tiramisu, coffee-soaked biscuit. Taste is dry, roasty and slightly chocolately dark malty, notes of dark chocolate, coffee, a touch of tiramisu, amaretto, mocha; lingering bitter, roasty finish. Slightly creamy texture, dry, slightly creamy, minimally cloying palate, fine carbonation. Very roasty, coffee-dominated; but neither boozy nor Imperial. Good.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Dr. Funk from Funk Estate 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330ml can. Minimally cloudy, orangey golden colour with small to average, frothy, fading, white head. Citrusy and slightly tropical fruity, as well as tart-ish, lactic aroma, notes of sauerkraut, yuzu, kumquat, lime. Taste is sour, citrusy fruity, slightly dry, lactic, notes of lime, hints of kumquat, yuzu. Watery texture, dry, minimally astringent palate, partially minimally prickly, overall rather flat carbonation.
wyzzywyz22 (5889) ticked Super Afro-Disiac from Funk Estate 5 years ago
BarleyAndBeyond (1997) reviewed Soul Train from Funk Estate 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
Review based on the BJCP2015 guidelines (style 29B: peach tea / 21A). Can 33 cl - Batch unknown (BBF 23/09/2020). AROMA: initial medium peach notes, followed by medium cereal husk notes. low oxidized hop background with a dried grass character. APPEARANCE: orangeish gold color and hazy. medium-low white head with low retention. TASTE: medium-high cereal husk flavor followed by medium peach background. low oxidized hops (dried grass). medium bitterness with a very dry and bitter finish. PALATE: medium-low body with medium carbonation. astringency present. OVERALL: an IPA with execution problems and already overdue.
LazyPyro (9998) reviewed Super Afro-Disiac from Funk Estate 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml can. Black with a small tan head. Aroma of chocolate, vanilla, honey, roast malts. Taste of chocolate, honey, figs, vanilla, roast malts, quite earthy, with a very bitter finish. Medium body, quite fizzy, a little too much carbonation in this. This one sounded a lot better than it tasted.
Parmenion777 (1984) reviewed Rock Steady from Funk Estate 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330ml can - Pours a pale golden colour, slight haze, with a smallish white head. Aroma is fruit and malt, tropical and sweet citrus fruits with some light toasted malt notes. A moderately sweet taste, light sweet malt and citrus flavours with a short citrus peel bitterness. Carbonated, oily in the mouth and a bit watery.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Sophisticuffs IPA from Funk Estate 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can from the Made Inn Ashford and drunk at home. Clear amber colour lasting cream head. Fruit and caramel on the aroma. Some pink grapefruit. Some pine. Some caramel. Some bitterness on the finish. Decent enough.
Marduk (26467) ticked Rock Steady from Funk Estate 5 years ago
Random paale ale poorly done