8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Paul’s Liquors in Cayucos. Nose is molasses, vanilla, golden raisins, and a light grog (rum) note. Hazy brown with a medium lightly lacing beige head. Flavor is sweet, molassesy raisins a hint of bitter and a charred bit.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2016
at 14:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours with a slightly hazy deep gold body that supports an off white head. The aroma offers up flowery floral hops, pine hops and candy like malts. The taste delivers a big load of floral and pine like hops that hover above a modest degree of sweet maltiness. The malts grow and become somewhat distracting from the hoppy experience.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2016
at 22:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
650ml bottle. Clear, orangey golden colour with average to huge, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Citrusy and piney, fruity hoppy aroma, grapefruit notes, hints of apricot. a slightly perfumed herbal touch, liquorice-like spiciness. Taste is initially piney and minimally soapy, herbal bitter hoppy, slightly citrusy, before space-taking rye spiciness relegates those flavours to the fringe. Very clean, a little incongruity between hops and rye.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2016
at 15:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Ambery orange colour with a mediumsized off-white fluffy head. Aroma is fruity, floral, herbal and mild pine and resin as well. Flavour is quite similar, with a nice mellow toasted and ryebready edge to it. Not overdoing the rye, which makes this a quite enjoyable rye ipa.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2016
at 12:22
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Hazy goldeny orange colour with a creamy slightly off-white head. Aroma is floral, some pine, spruce and mild bready notes to it. Flavour is fruity, floral, herbal and some mild zesty and toffeeish notes to it. Mild herbal notes in the aftertaste as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2016
at 12:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
6th December 2015
The Pigs Ear wrap up tasting at ChrisO’s. Hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and smooth, decent fine carbonation. Light malts, mild creamy sweetness. Spicy pine hops, a little floral orange and tropical fruits underneath. Light semi dry finish. Nicely hopped.
The Pigs Ear wrap up tasting at ChrisO’s. Hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and smooth, decent fine carbonation. Light malts, mild creamy sweetness. Spicy pine hops, a little floral orange and tropical fruits underneath. Light semi dry finish. Nicely hopped.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2016
at 04:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled (AbM). Black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is chocolate, some roast, mild burnt sugar and some syrup. Flavour is being quite similar in a rather sweet way, as the alcohol also gives it a slight kick. Ok, but then again quite simplistic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2015
at 13:37
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at ChrisO’s Pre-Xmas Tasting. It pours clear amber with a thick white head. The nose is fresh, lemon – lime, peach, toasty, some grass, light herbal accents and a hint of fennel. The taste is crisp, clean, bitter, toasty, straw, lemon – lime, peach, lemongrass, spice and pepper with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Pretty clean and drinkable. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2015
at 08:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle split at Chriso pre Xmas tasting, 06/12/15. Orange amber with a decent off white covering. Nose is citric sherbets, tangerine, light pine needle, toasted bread, airy malts. Taste comprises mellow tropicana, tangerine, straw, toasted malt, light pine, orange pith. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close peppered with a juicy hop rinse. Decent enough IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2015
at 11:00
8/10
Tried
on 09 Dec 2015
at 15:43