6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A hazy dark golden beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of hops, over ripe fruits, straw, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, straw. and hops, leading to a bitter finish. The body is light.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2011
at 08:55
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
clear light brown, small white head. Flowery aroma, mild malts. Flavor is flowery malty. A bit watery
Tried
on 16 Jan 2011
at 08:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Fruity, peachy and slight tea like aroma. Fruity, slight citrusy and mild peachy. Bitter and fruity into the finish. Smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2011
at 08:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours amber with a huge head.Nose shows lots of grapefruit and pine alongside earthy and resinous hops. Also shows some sweet bready malt. Very English, but in a full-on hoppy way.Similarly hoppy flavours with little in the way of malt backing, just a faint sweet bready note. Pleasant enough.Moderate carbonation could really be higher.
Tried
on 04 Jan 2011
at 16:28
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 500ml. @ [ The Pool Tabel Tasting in Rome ].Clear medium to dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark chocolate, smoke - peat, light sweet licorice. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20101219]
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2010
at 01:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 500ml bottle on 21/12/2010. Pours golden, with just a tiny bit of sediment evident. Has a pleasant and quite strong aroma of floral and citrus hops, and a little honey. Starts off with sweet fruit (apricots), along with some biscuity malt and some honey. Has a very solid and quite dry hop finish, with a lingering grapefruit like aftertaste. A very nice APA, and impressive for something which is only 4.5%. Classy packaging too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2010
at 00:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg. Hazy pale amber with a small off-white head.Gentle fruity and floral aroma with bubblegum, gooseberry, nectarine and a little pine. Taste has that NZ gooseberry bite with some stone fruit and a little pine. Subtle, balanced hybrid IPA. It’s pretty good but it didn’t quite work for me: it’s a bit insubstantial and is neither very bitter nor brashly aromatic where it needed to be at least one of the three.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2010
at 04:44
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Dirty orange/ brown with a small white head. Very high bead. Modest passionfruit and kumquat aroma with some pears and bread. Thin mouthfeel borders on watery. Taste of light bread, pears with bright lemon sourness and a little bitterness. Nice floral note floats around the finish. Better - fruitier - as it warmed to about 10C rather than the recommended 6-8, but nothing special.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2010
at 04:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear amber with a tiny beige head. Hoppy aroma with pine, grapefruits, lemons and caramel. Flavor was sweet and hoppy with plenty of grapefruit, pine and bitternes from the hops.
Tried
on 08 Sep 2010
at 02:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Amber with a light beige head. Hoppy aroma is not huge and has tropical fruits, grilled peaches and resin. Slightly sickly caramel underneath. Taste has lots of caramel and stone fruit sweetness with fruity bitterness. Some alcohol vapours. Smooth malty mouthfeel. Fruity bitter finish. Good bitterness with interesting flavours, but the malt was a bit oversweet for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2010
at 07:34