Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Märzen from New Park Brewing 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned 9/2/25, drunk 10/1/25.
Clear auburn with copper tints. Big, butter-beige head fades slowly to cover.
Classic caramel and toffee flanked by herbaceous hops. Earth, light toast and mineral round out the clean, fairly crisp finish. Not sweet or over-toasted and not over-hopped. Lots of honey-like character from base malt.
Spicy hops with a bit more toast in the flavor than the nose lets on. But it keeps it quite dry and there's rich malt depth with big toffee flavors. Blackberries, plums, maple candies...but nicely balancing bitterness from hop and melanoidin-like malt qualities. Clean and crisp on the finish. Maybe just a smidge too much toast overall.
CLW (17000) reviewed Cortex from New Park Brewing 7 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
16 oz can. Aroma is oranges, papaya, house yeast. Flavor follows with the addition of pineapple notes. Mouth feel is soft with a pillow-like texture. Plenty of juice. This is an old can (5 months old) and it still taste great! No sugary sweetness is found.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Tasman from New Park Brewing 7 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned 8/12/25, drunk 9/1/25.
Heavily hazy bronze. Big, well-retained, white head.
Fruity and lightly juicy with lots of white grape and mineral/earth. Light spruce/pine/resin. Cracker and biscuit from the sparse malt.
Very flavorful with mango, orange juice, white wine and minimal contribution from the Motueka. Zesty with big mineral, light sulfur, light grape and a dry, biscuity, crackery, earthy finish. Pretty impressive amount of flavor for 6%.
Jow (8450) reviewed Hopiary from New Park Brewing 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from Clark many thanks. Peachy orange and foamy head nose is honey and citrus. Tastes of nice floral honey, peach, apricot, grass, pineapple, hint of cheesiness. Medium bodied. Lingering fruit finish
Jow (8450) reviewed Tasman from New Park Brewing 7 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Can at home thanks Clark. Peachy yellow colored brew with foamy white head. Nose is white grape and tart berry. Tastes of white grapes, apricots, honey dew, gooseberry, wheat, star fruit. Milky palate. Fruity finish.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Steppe from New Park Brewing 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750mL bottle drunk 8/26/25.
Clear, bright brass-pineapple-bronze. Small, off-white head slowly to ring.
Mild Brett and moderate lactic character in the nose with pineapple and lemon and a healthy dose of oak. Fairly rich with lots of unripe stone fruit and citrus pith. Biscuity, rustic grains seem supportive.
Rich and malty with a soft, chewy wheat and oak tannin component. Lots of oak but it's not too buttery or acidic. Rich citrus and light tropical fruit with more fruit rind and a lingering juiciness. Pleasingly tart, a fair bit so, but I think it keeps itself from getting too acidic.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Schwarzbier from New Park Brewing 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Canned 12/16/24, drunk 8/26/25.
Dark, clear. Big, beige head, slowly to cover.
Rich base malt accented with chocolate and hazelnut and very low roast. Warm chocolate and toffee with light honey and mild, herbal hop notes. Clean.
Soft, very malty, big base malt tones with low dark malts. Possibly even more tmavy/dunkel than schwarzbier, but whatever. Definitely a strong hazelnut character with nutty, bready, sweet, honey-like malts and great attenuation. Really like the reliance on base malt, as with all great lagers.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Don Gato from New Park Brewing 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
4 pack from the brewery, drunk over the course of a month and a half, last one on 8/26/25. Canned 4/2825.
Definitely can still smell the dry hop, loud and clear even after 4 months in the can. Moderate lactic acidity, not punchy, with strong pineapple-like notes. Light celery salt, wheat, earth, mineral.
Does feel like this has lactose in it, as it's not wholly agreeable and has a slick, slightly sweet, earthy, mousey, dirty character. 't would be sad if so. But it would be really weird to use lactose here in a kettle soured beer that already contains lactic acid. Maybe just a bit punchy from the lactic acid-hop combo.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Hopiary from New Park Brewing 7 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Canned 6/24/25, purchased from the brewery mid-August, drunk 8/26/25.
Heavily hazy, near turbid, bronze-maize-golden, with a large, off-white head showing strong retention.
Juicy peach notes with bits of spice and floral character. Almost a leathery note with unripe and moderately ripe tropical fruit and stone fruit. Malts seem rich with white bread, honey, biscuit and good attenuation. Clean and polished with no residual sugar or syrupiness, nor resin or alcohol noted.
Soft, juicy, getting lots of peach and other stone fruit with a bit of unripe guava, juicy citrus and rich honey-like malt that are deep and well-attenuated. Been a bit of a slump for New Park IPAs for me (none have been bad or anything, just nothing stunning) but this breaks that streak.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Wavelength from New Park Brewing 8 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brewery draught, 8/16/25.
Moderately hazy, beeswax-bronze with a small, off-white, fleeting head.
Bright pineapple and mango in the nose without any big acid from the Galaxy. Not piney or sprucey, which is impressive. I didn't even pick out that this was Galaxy. Rich wheat and malt keeps the hops at bay and it's vibrant and tropical without twang.
Juicy and pineapple-forward with, again, a lack of any austere Galaxy. No chalk, burnt earth or intense Spruce acidity. Tropical, fruity, with decent, but not overdone bitterness and a chewy, biscuity wheatiness that helps balance.