Thorn Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
San Diego,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can, 0.355l. Aroma of citrus, mango, peach, passion fruit, biscuit and pine. Pours cloudy amber color with medium sized frothy off-white head, fair lacing and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts medium sweet resinous and toasted malty, following is herbal and mild fruity, while finish is moderate bitter. Medium body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. Old school west coast IPA...
Tried
from Can
on 30 Oct 2020
at 20:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Lots of peach and some citrus. Pours orange amber with good head and lacing. Tangy finish. Good stuff. Tap at Liberty Station
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2020
at 14:36
7/10
Maybe leans more on the malty than hoppy side.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2020
at 08:26
8/10
Tried
on 05 Apr 2020
at 12:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 fl.oz can. A murky golden beer with a big off-white head. Aroma of apricot, bitter fruity hops, yellow fruits. Taste of strong hoppy pale malt, yellow fruits, honey, apricot, some spruce, marmalade, long bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2020
at 21:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Multi-grain imperial NEIPA (containing, apart from barley, wheat, spelt and oats) flavoured with honey and hopped with Australian and New Zealand hops, hence the name. From a 355 ml can. Yellowish egg-white, irregularly edged, thick and frothy, uneven-bubbled and slowly breaking, yet quite stable head (eventually retaining as a mousy ring and flat floating 'islands'), completely 'opaque'-cloudy and even milky, pale orangey-hued apricot blonde robe. Luscious, dank, tropical yet 'refreshing', enticing bouquet of tangerine, granadilla, mango chutney, guava, rambutan, indeed (acacia) honey, grapefruit zest, mandarin, sugar loaf, even cake dough, hints of sweet red onions, lemon pie, gasoline, pine-scented hand soap, marmalade, banana and an underlying note of, well, dirt. Tropical fruit fills the onset, mango, papaja, guava, rambutan, sweet but with a refreshingly lime-like citric edge; well carbonated for a NEIPA, with somewhat stinging, minerally effects, but actually adding to its drinkable and refreshing quality. Fluffy, creamy malt body, sweet cake dough with a thin layer of indeed honey on top, accentuating the apparent sweetness of the hops, releasing a wave of sultry tangerine, papaja and granadilla retronasally but also depositing a peppery, tangy bitterness onto the root of the tongue, albeit still in a relatively mild manner, in accordance with this style's 'prescriptions'. The alcohol, manifesting itself as a subtly gin-like 'afterglow', does accentuate this end bitterness, but it is clearly the overall 'tropical juiciness' that gets the last word. Your typical dank, lush and juicy New England style IPA even if made in San Diego - but with the aid of Mikkeller San Diego, which has (to me) proven before that they are very good at mastering NEIPA's little nuances. A fine example of the style, I think, though still lacking just a bit in the complexity and refinement found in similar beers from the greatest hazy IPA brewers in actual New England, which still stand strong as a standard for judging NEIPAs as far as I'm concerned - even if the genre has now spread all over the western world.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2020
at 23:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Bine & Vine. Pours bright gold with a white head. Citrus and mildly roasty malt for aroma. Near med body. Surprising for low-carb. Flavor is citrus with a touch of orange. Mild malt support. Clean. Bitter. Sessionable for sure.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Mar 2020
at 01:28
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dunkel hopfiger Beginn, grasig-harzig, ziemlich süffig. Herb würziger Mittelteil, erkennbar alkoholisch, zum Ende dumpf werdend. Vergleichsweise süffig. 9/10/12/11//11
Tried
on 06 Mar 2020
at 06:34
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Fruchtiger, deutlich saurer Beginn. Himbeeren, etwas trocken, spritzig. Intensiv saurer bleibend, spät pappig im Hintergrund. Langer Abgang. 10/11/12/11//12
Tried
on 06 Mar 2020
at 06:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Bine & Vine. Pours brassy gold with a large white head. Aroma is tropical - but not super strongly so. Med body. Flavor is lightly juicy, tho dryish, with some burning tropical hop and roasty malt support. Citrus. Hop burn. Good stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Mar 2020
at 03:09