Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can from Colonial Hazy murky lemon straw color with a huge frothy bone white head that persists. Big citrus and earthy pine with a solid bready malt to back it up. Light chunk and alcohol in the feel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the EBF: pours light haze with white head. Aroma is citrus and herbal. Taste is similar, herbal, sort of bitter.
jtclockwork (20063) reviewed XP #20 from Vanished Valley Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can - pours gold white head - nose and taste of grapefruit, green onion, lemon and orange peel - medium body
jtclockwork (20063) reviewed Pomona from Vanished Valley Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can - pours gold white head - nose and taste of grapefruit, tangerine, citrus, biscuit malt - medium body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can - pours gold white head - nose and taste of citrus and orange peel, lemon, biscuit malt - medium body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can - pours gold white head - nose and taste of citrus, grass, biscuit malt, orange peel - medium body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can - pours gold with a white head - nose and taste of bread malt, lemon, biscuit - medium body
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed XP #16 from Vanished Valley Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Undated can drunk 5/9/18.
Clear, normal, WC IPA look. Brass-blonde with a small white head showing low retention.
Smells like pine and grapefruit. Tastes like pine and grapefruit. High bitterness robs any enjoyment from me and while not every IPA needs to be NE style, I will never understand palate-fatiguing, unbalanced bitterness with no accompanying strong, supple, moderately sweet malt. This is otherwise, well-constructed, but I can't even take more than a few sips. Engaging carbonation, dry, somewhat malty, no booze. All pine and raw citrus finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Canned 3/19, drunk 3/30/18.
Glowing bronze-to-copper with more of a strong cloudiness than soupiness. Large white head shows moderately-strong retention.
Smells like honey and graham cracker-like malt character, initially. Tangerine and marmalade are woven in, as caramel mixes in and increases the malt presence. It's not so much sweet and rich of malts as it is bready and grainy, with a bit stronger a focus than I'd prefer. Some "traditional" (for a NE IPA) mango-lime juice notes are very light and it ends with light pine, as well.
In the mouth it's a bit dry and grainy, certainly well-attenuated with a continuing (from the nose) focus on the malt. As it warms and breathes, it does soften considerably, adding a bit more juiciness in to the mix. Bubble gum-like yeast adds lots of perceived fruitiness while lime, tangerine and marmalade sit on the finish, a mix of lightly bitter and spicy. Alcohol is well-concealed, carbonation is engaging.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz. can. Date of 4-22-18. Thank you Chalumeaux! Aroma shows me light pine, bold mango pulp, and maybe orange bits. The flavor is a mango cocktail with a splash of resin in the backend. Bitterness is subdued by a mildly "juicy" texture. Pretty reasonable.