daniele (14510) reviewed Icon 2IPA from Murray's Craft Brewing Co. 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
At GBBF 2011. Bottle. Clear copper colour. Hoppy pale ale. Some peach flavour. Its decent. A touch empty in the mouth but god fruot and hop
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours ruby-tinted black, with a large, light tan head.Nose shows lots of fruity hops, with passion-fruit and peach very noticeable, along with some soft resinous pine. Later on some cocoa and roasted malt become apparent. Very nice.Very aggressive flavours, lots of pine, roasted malt, coffee and alcohol. Ends with a brutal hoppy and roasty bitterness.Carbonation seems a little high to me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig ’11. It pours dark red-amber, with a decent off-white head and moderate carbonation. The nose is polish, fig, prune, sweet liquorice, toffee and sweet caramel. The taste is caramel, toffee, treacle, raisin, currant, fig, weak coffee, chocolate, nut, solid bitterness and alcohol warmth, with a dry finish. Sticky mouth-feel. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
At Chriso Pre Gbbf 2011. Bottle thanks to nick. its a big barrel aged whisky style beer. Good aged beer. Good malts.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 13C. Black with a coat of light tan head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, plums, vanilla, alcohol, licorice, pine. Texture is a bit oily - surprisingly light. Remaining carbonation is slight and really nice: this has bottled well. Taste has cocoa, roasted bitterness, coffee, vanilla, white pepper, dark rum. Not very sweet at first - the roasted character is not aggressive, but is persistent and there all the way through. About half way through the glass the sweetness and alcohol start to creep up as it warms - I’d start cooler next time. The fruit in the nose doesn’t really show up much in the mouth. A little boozy at the end, along with the chocolate, roasted malt and some pine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Clear mid brown with a large lasting beige head. Low remaining carbonation. Aroma of pine, citrus, grapes, gooseberries, cut grass, a hint of chocolate and roast. Taste is dry with deeper roasted flavours and more pine than suggested by the smell. Lingering pine bitterness. I liked the way the roasty side and the IPA are brought together but left just slightly dissonant.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Papsø’s
Cloudy brownish color; generous head. Very nice aroma of malt and hops, a bit cheesy, sharp, phenolic, but interesting. Strong body, with a good full malt flavor and caramel, some vanilla oak, and a strong hopping too. Very good American styled Barley Wine, powerful.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap. Hazy amber with an inch of thick off-white head. Complex hoppy aroma with nectarines, lychees, gooseberries, kumquats, pine. Maybe some biscuit lurking there too. Only brooding hop aromas, nothing heady - but nice all the same.Taste has modest sweetness, alcohol, light biscuit, lots of stone fruits, passionfruit, lychees. Bitter finish is fruity with some pine, but falls away quickly. Some heat from the alcohol at the end. The Icon is much more my sort of thing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap. Gold with a medium white head. Delicate floral aroma with a some bready grain, a little pepper and lemon. Slightly creamy mouthfeel. Light grainy malt is moderately sweet with a little lager sourness. Modest bitterness. Neither particularly bold or crisp, but OK.