7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Legacy LRS, Vancouver
Golden to copper colour, with slight haze; medium sized compact head. It seems lighter coloured than the regular Numbskull, and this is good news. The hop profile is rather old school, with some resins and some orange peel; the malt is good, it's lightly sweet, a bit bready, light toast, caramel, fudge, not a crispy modern IIPA, but it's in the right direction; the bitterness is the Achille's heel of this beer, as it comes through really pithy. Strangely this beer took many weeks to be released in Vancouver, but I don't think that's the problem. Nicely conceived, but with a medium flaw in the bitterness delivery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2020
at 00:58