7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at brewery. Pours clear yellow with white head. Aroma has tons of pine and cat piss. Flavour has cat piss, fresh grass, and hoppy bitterness underneath. Great hop expression.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2024
at 03:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at brewery. Pours clear pale gold with white head. Flavour has a ton of woody pine character, dry and sharp, excellent. Great Chinook expression.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2024
at 03:55
4/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4
On tap at brewery. Pours opaque dirty orange, bubbles like a bog, residual sludge. What the everloving fuck. Aroma has tons of fruit and leafy stems. Just smells and tastes like a thick fruit smoothie, no hops or malt that would indicate a relationship to beer. This would be a great smoothie, but I cannot comprehend how this would qualify as a beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2024
at 03:50
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at brewery. Pours clear yellow with white head. Aroma is dank, piney, and vinous. Flavour has dank and pine up front and a smooth vinous finish. Fantastic Nelson hop expression, clean and smooth.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2024
at 03:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at brewery. Pours clear yellow with white head. Aroma is clean with pine and light citrus. Flavour has crisp pine, a touch of dank oiliness, and bright stonefruit. Good carbonation. Great clean hop expression. Refreshing.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2024
at 03:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at APEX, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Nose has some sweaty hops, earthiness, and bready malt. Flavour is full of earthy hops, some sweatiness, and a touch of citrus. A bit too muffled and underwhelming for Ruse.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2024
at 07:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at APEX, pours a clear blonde with a small white bead. Aroma brings out gentle dank hops, pine, and biscuity malt. Flavour has a nice dry piney hop character and biscuity malt. Dry, woody, piney hops on the finish. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2024
at 07:35
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Ruse, pours a minimally hazy golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma is extremely dank for a Nelson bomb, with lots of piney hops, pot galore, and dry biscuity malt — not the usual Nelson expression, though as it warms I do pick up more white wine character. Flavour is much more standard Nelson, with tons of white wine hop expression, mega-dankness, light tropical notes, and a crisp biscuity malt. Dank, vinous and assertive. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2024
at 07:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Ruse, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is fairly dry and woody in the hop expression, with pine and some grapefruit rind. Flavour is also dry and woody in the hop expression — thank you, Chinook — with dry pine, some gentle oiliness, and crisp biscuity malt. Woody, dry and piney. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2024
at 07:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Ruse, pours a crystal clear yellow blonde with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of dank hops, some cat pee, and gentle tropical melon. Flavour is bright, with lots of tropical melon, dank hops, pine, and some cat pee. Dank, bright, and crisp. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2024
at 07:04