7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
500mL bottle, bottled 2 weeks ago, pours a hazy golden orange with a medium white head. Aroma is somewhere between a hazy and westie, with a lot of muddled oats upfront, bready malt, and some tropical, citrusy hops. Flavour is fresh, with vibrant resinous hops, some tropical notes, light pine, muffled oats, earthiness, and bready malt. Not my favourite kind of IPA, but it’s far superior to most NEIPAs out there. A bit too much oatiness, but there’s good structure and reasonable expression. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Maine Beer Company
on 10 Aug 2026
at 02:59
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Maine Beer Co, pours a clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma has bitter orange peel, light pine, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is fairly bitter, with orange peel, bitter citrus hops, and a crisp biscuity malt. Bitter orange peel finish. Not really that much hop expression or dynamics in general. It’s okay.
Tried
from Draft
at
Maine Beer Company
on 10 Aug 2026
at 01:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Maine Beer Co, pours a clear blonde with a medium white head. Aroma has some unfermented wort in there, with grassy hops, straw, and bready malt. Flavour is better, with soft grassy hops, straw, and biscuity malt. Far from a flawless German pils, but it does at least drink crisply. Pleasant.
Tried
from Draft
at
Maine Beer Company
on 10 Aug 2026
at 01:40
8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500mL bottled 6/25/2026, drunk 8/6/2026.
Giant marmalade character with a zesty, healthy acidity behind it adding light pine and grapefruit rind. Caramel-accented white bread and biscuit from the malt seems to balance pretty easily. Not the most intense aroma, but clean, with an emphasis on malt, and no alcohol noted.
I do get some coconut, pineapple rind and unripe honeydew melon from the atypical hops (the Strata and the Sabro), and it's not overdone (not a mouthful of coconut-banana-pineapple). No Dole fruit Cup-like pineapple character, either. From there it's the same MBC IPA character they always have; big malts, some pine and grapefruit, nothing too fruity or juicy. There's a fluffier, denser-than-usual body here, no doubt from the oats. Not sure they're necessary; it's already quite malty and rich. Appreciate the subtleties of the hops, and I'm not asking for them to slap you in the face with flavor, but it does still seem a bit reserved, malt-forward, bitter. But that's just MBC, take it or leave it. I will say, the bitterness juxtaposed with the rich texture does make it both exceedingly satisfying and drinkable.
Giant marmalade character with a zesty, healthy acidity behind it adding light pine and grapefruit rind. Caramel-accented white bread and biscuit from the malt seems to balance pretty easily. Not the most intense aroma, but clean, with an emphasis on malt, and no alcohol noted.
I do get some coconut, pineapple rind and unripe honeydew melon from the atypical hops (the Strata and the Sabro), and it's not overdone (not a mouthful of coconut-banana-pineapple). No Dole fruit Cup-like pineapple character, either. From there it's the same MBC IPA character they always have; big malts, some pine and grapefruit, nothing too fruity or juicy. There's a fluffier, denser-than-usual body here, no doubt from the oats. Not sure they're necessary; it's already quite malty and rich. Appreciate the subtleties of the hops, and I'm not asking for them to slap you in the face with flavor, but it does still seem a bit reserved, malt-forward, bitter. But that's just MBC, take it or leave it. I will say, the bitterness juxtaposed with the rich texture does make it both exceedingly satisfying and drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Maine Beer Company
on 06 Aug 2026
at 17:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
On tap at the source. Lightly hazy deep yellow with small tightly bubbled white head that persists.Bready crackery maltiness firm hop bitterness. Pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jul 2026
at 23:30
8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at the source. Solid black color with a creamy tan head that persists. Earthy roasty light chocolate aroma and flavor. Creamy mouthfeel. That is a beautiful beer.
Tried
from Draft
at
Maine Beer Company
on 26 Jul 2026
at 23:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Yellow body with thin white head. Tropical fruit aroma somewhat light. Full fruity hop taste with a good body and a lasting finish. Bits of malt in the taste.
Tried
from Draft
at
Saraveza
on 10 Jul 2026
at 17:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bottled 473/500ml. -from the brewery taproom. Black coloured, medium sized pale beige head, vanilla and light chocolate in the nose. Roasted malt, chocolate, light alcohol and coffee with dryish roasty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Maine Beer Company
on 23 Jun 2026
at 04:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at Hops & Milk, medium creamy head, light hazy lightish yellow colour, grass, green leaves, malty base behind, a bit of nectarine, medium strong green bitterness. Not too exciting but nice and drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jun 2026
at 18:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewery taproom. Unclear golden coloured, medium sized white head, fruity and light herbal nose. Fruity, herbal, light grassy and bitterish finish. Rather boring.
Tried
from Draft
at
Maine Beer Company
on 14 Jun 2026
at 01:24