9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
(Can - nitro) Pours (after several vigorous shakes and upending into glass!) hazy golden amber with big dense creamy white head. Awesome aroma - intense mango, coconut, cream, pineapple (reminded me of an ice cream) with some hops. So smooth through the nitro head. Creamy with some pleasant bright carbonation. Taste starts with mango milkshake with pineapple and coconut. Then some nice caramel sweetness rolls in, followed by some perfectly balanced hop bitterness. Dangerously drinkable. Really different. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Apr 2020
at 12:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can. Amber. A little unclear with an off-white head that rapidly fades to less than a coat. Aroma of grapefruit, breadcrust, pine needles. 7+ lowish carbonation - I would have liked just a bit higher. Moderately sweet with sweet breadcrust, as much pine as citrus and a little lower bitterness than you'd have expected with these flavours 5-10 years ago. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Mar 2020
at 13:10
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle (no. 6 / 50) - enormous thanks to Fil for bringing this from Australia to share with me and the Raven crew! Stupidly, didn't note the color, but I seem to remember a misty yellow-orange and some white head. Sweetish aroma, mixing chamomile, maybe lavender, some vague fruity-estery touches. Lean, all too lean taste, chamomile and peppery phenolics, with vague sweetness helping things along faced with the bitterish and exceedingly dry taste. Good stuff overall, but I can see why some weren't thrilled. Really love to have gotten to try it!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2020
at 19:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Canned.. Huge thanks to Fil for bringing this from Australia and sharing with me and the Raven crew! Murky dark orange-red body, off white head. Lactic acid and tart grapes in the aroma, hmmm, lightly perfumey but okay. Lean, quite lean taste, white grapes fighting with lactic acid and there's also trace guava in the finish along with the saltiness. Everything's a bit on the subtle side about it, but it's far from a bad beer, a pretty good Gose in any case!
Tried
from Can
on 19 Feb 2020
at 18:23
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Canned, nitro. Huge thanks to Fil for bringing this from Australia and sharing with me and the Raven crew! There's a whole procedure because of the nitro, hah, but it was worth it. Murky yellow-orange body, some off white head. Intensive, and I mean INTENSIVE as F**K aroma, huge, beautiful mango juice, some vague coconut maybe too, but I could smell that for ages. Smooth, very smooth mango, coconut, vanilla taste, sunscreen-like in a good way, bringing me back to my childhood and island beaches in the Adriatic. The hoppiness seemed to be there, fruitiness showing up that wasn't mango or coconut really, blended well with the others, only a faint, faint grainy touch from the malty background. This is, by a large margin, the best Milkshake IPA I've ever had. Nick has created a masterpiece here!
Tried
from Can
on 19 Feb 2020
at 18:01
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
12/1/2020. Sample, from can, courtesy of danlo, cheers Ed! Pours clear golden with a small bubbly white head. Aroma of grain, sweet malt, hop, biscuit, light fruit, caramel and flowers. Medium sweetness, low bitterness. Moderate body, slight sticky texture, soft carbonation. Ok.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jan 2020
at 19:50
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
375ml can from BWS Rockdale Plaza. Golden colour, white foam head and aroma of malt, fruity. Taste is malty, grainy, fruity with some biscuit, straw grassy bitterness. Light bodied, soft carbonation, dry grassy bitter fInish. OK, abit bland.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2019
at 06:46
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Harts Pub. Pours a cloudy earthy yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has grain and earthy straw with a hint of wet grass. Flavor has grains and light straw with a bit of wet grass growing in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Feb 2019
at 05:42