7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at the source. Pours hazy orange, relatively flat. Nice tropical fruits, NE wheat-yeasty feel and juicy overall character in the nose. Quite what I would expect from the style. Tastes similarly juicy, underlying grassy bitterness and tropical fruit flavours. Mango, papaya and melon, some citric juice, maybe grapefruit, there as well. Long dry and bitter linger in the finish. Pretty good execution of the style, well done!
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2017
at 05:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at the source, Mosaic / Equinox version. Pours quite clear amber, not very foam, more like flat. Nose has lots of salty kettle sour characteristics, some apple skin bitterness and light funk. Taste has tartness, quite at the level that I like, some more apple-skins and some different bitter notes - which are not in a great balance, leaving somewhat rough feel to the beer. Still drinks nice, I like the overall feel of this beer. Finish is simple, dry and with some apple tannins.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2017
at 04:59
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Very Hazy golden amber color with a tinge of red. Frothy white head. Extraordinarily dry nose with faint hints of strawberry, wheat and slight burnt character. The mouth is light somewhat fruit with modest strawberry presence. This beer isn’t a disaster. This is actually not a bad beer and could be cloying sweet strawberry weizen but it’s not. It’s restrained, perhaps too much so, but it’s not flawed. I dare say for what it’s trying to accomplish it’s... its....good. Wouldn’t particularly seek this out but gives me some faith that yyg has turned a bit of a corner.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2017
at 04:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Light amber color. Lots of lactic notes in the nose with stewed apricots, celery and corn, though weird and funky not bad. Light body, fairly sour with lots of lactic notes, actually not bad balance but i think the lactic becomes a bit too overwhelming (though nothing extreme) and distracts. This beer has potential and I am amazing yyg is not totally screwing up this beer. Apparently if they try to make a session IPA all hell breaks loose but give them a sour ale and they can do ok. I would like to see apricot or even ume with this beer.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jun 2017
at 04:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
hazy amber brown color. No head at all. The beer showed fairly hoppy nose, but initially was served so cold it was hard to pick up much character. The description is "berry, banana and caramel.." And that is pretty accurate for the nose. For 9.7% the mouth is pretty light and unnecessarily grinding bitterness for 50 ibu. As it warmed up I got a fair amount of citrus notes in the mouth. Quite a boozy bitter finish. Pretty unsophisticated.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2016
at 00:16
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
very dark golden color. The nose is slightly tart and citrusy. Light body, not as tart in the mouth but low bitterness. Very refreshing. Great summer beer but could be tweaked with more citrus character to add tartness. One issue is the IBUs are only 10, that is ridiculously low and more like weizen level.
Tried
on 05 Jun 2016
at 06:44
3.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 3
very murky amber brown color. That makes you very suspicious that something is wrong. Unlike every IPA I’ve ever had, this literally had no nose whatsoever. Like water is more interesting that this. I like the beer warm up and see if something might come out, but it didn’t. Just bitter. The brewer made a mistake and is pushing the beer out. Not impressed with that.
Tried
on 05 Jun 2016
at 06:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Medium dark amber color. Nice toffee and apricot nose. The mouth is a bit thin and not greatly balanced. Light bitter finish.
Tried
on 04 Jun 2016
at 05:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at YYG. Stinky, catpiss NZ nose with some light passion fruit notes. Clean and crisp on the palate. Almost like a blonde with NZ hops. Dry and not sweet at all. Slight pithy, lemony bitterness on the finish. Easy drinking and another decent to solid YYG beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of Wheat Ale on 12 May 2016 at 19:56 - Score: 7. Original review text: Nice stinky tropical NZ hop nose. Clean and crisp on the palate. Dry not cloying easy drinking.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 May 2016
at 09:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at YYG. Kind of underwhelming when cold, but once it sat for about 5 minutes out came a wonderful tropical fruit-forward nose with grapefruit. Medium body with some light caramel notes, but very hop driven beer. For the abv and being a new brewery the palate is well-done. Peppery bitterness on the finish (almost rye-like in a way). Really good and the best of the 4 for me. Really a lighter version of Modern Times Blazing World and Aurora mixed. Very nice beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of Yoyogi Amber Ale on 12 May 2016 at 21:12 - Score: 7. Original review text: Tropical notes, grapefruit. Modern times lite. Great!
Tried
from Draft
on 22 May 2016
at 09:06