8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can from the brewery, 3 days out from canning. Really nails it. Crackery, bready malt tone with a perfect, bright, zesty hop balance. Medium bodied, very drinkable. The foeder fermentation adds a touch of oaky vanilla perhaps? Really good.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2022
at 02:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can at the brewery. No Topaz in this batch presumably. Perhaps a little faded out at a month and a half out. Really does have that orange slice tone. Calypso adds some depth, citra and el dorado aren't quite booming. OK, least favorite of the visit.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Mar 2022
at 22:02
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at Hidden River about a month after canning. Drinks more like a regular juicy IIPA than typical, still right next door. Awesome hop depth, tangy neomexicanus juiciness. Has some chewy underlying bitterness. Delicious.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Mar 2022
at 21:41
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Two days out from canning at the brewery. Waimea brings some awesome delicate honeysuckle. Citra and Mosaic round it out. A really impressive display of all three hops. Creamy, oaty body.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Mar 2022
at 21:21
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
7.8% February 2022 version, hop bill inverted. Really attractive for the style, thick, opaque yellow-orange body. Creamy white head laces the glass. Motueka comes through big, adding some lime that sort of mute out the white grape of the Nelson Sauvin. Citra is just ever present in HR IPA at this point. Big and juicy, Motueka takes it in a unique direction. Good stuff.
Tried
on 26 Feb 2022
at 22:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can at the brewery. Pale filtered yellow-tan body. Creamy white head. All around very enjoyable, true, enjoyable. Very fresh.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2022
at 20:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
375ml bottle. Quite sour, bitingly so, in a more Lambic way than most US sours. Green strawberry tone, a little more red strawberry juiciness would have been quite nice here, but perhaps it got eaten away by the sour yeasts. Pretty legit, well done sour. A really brutal experience to drink a whole bottle though. Split this with three or more people and it works better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2022
at 06:44
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
16oz can. Roasty and sweet, dextrose or sugar lead. Doesn't really have a Porter tone of any sort. HR can nail a citra hazy IPA, but their strong dark beers are pretty lackluster. Sugar forward, no malt depth. A 6% all malt beer would have been a lot better. This wasn't good at all. Glad I didn't get a 4pack.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jan 2022
at 04:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can at HR. Thick, opaque, peach-tan body. Steady white head. Strata seems to dominate most beers it is in, it does here. Fresh, enjoyable hazy IPA, but not that big juicy hop tone that I have come to expect from HR. Still pretty good, sort of unique for the style.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jan 2022
at 04:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16oz can at the brewery. The first fruited beer I've had from HR. Early January, so doubtful this has real strawberries. Pretty good for the style, but not my kind of beer at all. Strawberry puree pretty much mutes out the hop tone. Hints of lactose. Glad I didn't get a 4pack.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jan 2022
at 04:43