5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a thin lazing orangey head. The aroma has notes of peaches and citrus fruits on a caramel back drop. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and over ripe fruits, leading to a bitter finish. Not a lot of hops for an IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2011
at 06:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 64 cl. Courtesy of bluebetty. Pours a hazy golden with a lacing off-white head. Sweet citrusy hop aroma. Medium body, sweet fruitiness, dry citrusy hoppiness and an almost astringent finish. Well made - clearly not an American or a British IPA - this is something different, but in a good way. 180911
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2011
at 05:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Clear orangish amber with a white head. Aroma of citrus, berries/ coffee, peach, caramel. Taste has rather plain caramel sweetness with berries, lightly roasted coffee, bitter finish with some citrus, pine and a whiff of grinds. The coffee in the aroma works nicely but this didn’t quite hang together for me, perhaps because the caramel has subtler aromatics to hide behind.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2011
at 06:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Growler, 7.2% ABV. 13C. Clear very dark brown with a modest tan head that lasts well. Aroma of treacle, chocolate, plums. Silky mouthfeel, low carbonation. Mouthfilling but dangerously easy drinking at 7.2%. Taste has toffee sweetness, roasted and hop bitterness, chocolate and plums. Finishes quite bitter, but no taste dominates. Very good and that lovely house texture is a big plus for me.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2011
at 06:30
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from BevMo in Vacaville, CA. Pours very dark amber, almost brown, with a slight, transient beige head. Fresh evergreen aroma, a bit floral, and a hint of caramel. Med body. Flavor is quite floral, a bit pine, and finally some significant malt shows up. This is very flavorful. Probably a bit more so than many English versions. I’m thinking this approaches Fuller’s 1845. Approaches.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2011
at 17:59
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
[5/11] Tap. Amber with an inch of light beige head that lasts well. Aroma has fat caramel, grass, passionfruit, a little pine and citrus. Slightly oily body. Tastes pretty much as smells with some stone fruit and wood too. Sweetish with struggling bitterness despite the punchy hop aromatics. OKish. If this is Hightail without constraints, I look forward to their Prometheus ale. [3.1] [4/14] Can. Previous pretentious smug bastard remarks reiterated.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 May 2011
at 08:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours ruby tinted dark brown with a small, lasting head.Nose shows masses of hops: resinous, earthy, pinapple. Underneath is chocolate and caramel malt. Luscious!First up in the flavours is chocolate and coffee followed by a huge resinous hoppy hit. Tastes like how freshly picked hops smell! Massively long finish with a strong, bold hoppy bitterness.Carbonation could be a bit higher honestly.
Tried
on 12 Apr 2011
at 04:05
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours brown, looks black in the glass with red-brown edges, modest beige head. Aroma is just hops - grapefruit, pine, nectarines, a little window-cleaner. Light-bodied and quite bubbly. Taste is of those hop aromatics, a little coffee and chocolate, even less roasted malt. Finishes bitter with citrus and pine. Very similar to others I’ve liked in this style: there’s no sense that it’s a hoppy porter, just a US IPA with a different root malt note. [3.8] Delightful yes, but a bagatelle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2011
at 05:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle at home tasting ... copper brown ... thin lacing ... soft toffee malts ... light over fizzy ... small ovaltine malts ... juicy fruits
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2011
at 04:29
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From the tap at the Local Taphouse, St Kilda on 27/1/2011 (part of a five beer tasting paddle). Light straw in colour. Has a powerful, fantastic aroma of passionfruit, mango and grapes. There’s more tropical fruit in the flavour, though the sweetness is quite muted. Finishes with a quite tart, and even slightly salty, lemony tang, along with some vinous notes. A really interesting, very different and lovely summer ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jan 2011
at 22:47