Thorn Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in San Diego,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
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.
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.
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.
Koelschtrinker (42161) reviewed Pine Hollows from Thorn Brewing Company 5 years ago
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
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
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.
Koelschtrinker (42161) reviewed Relay IPA from Thorn Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dunkel hopfiger, frisch herb getreidiger Beginn. Weich bitter, rund hopfig bleibend, Pinienkerne. 10/12/10/11//11
Koelschtrinker (42161) reviewed Hopster Pot from Thorn Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Stark hopfig hefiger Beginn, hell getreidig, grasig. Hefig-herb, vollmundig, harzig, intensiv. Langer Nachgeschmack. Gut. 11/11/12/12//12
andrewje41 (7962) reviewed Hopster Pot from Thorn Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Six pack of cans picked up at a liquor store in Mission Viejo. Last can of the pack. Pours thick with juicy orange haze. Smooth foam head. Tropical fruit nose here, stone fruit and a little pineapple. Very juicy first impression there. Gritty grain profile to start, smooth melon and tropical fruit follows without being too sweet or overpowering. I would have guessed this was brewed with fruit. Very impressionable hop profile. Refreshing taste. A solid six pack to pick up and enjoy over the last week or so.
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