7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 375ml can on 5/12/2021. Pours a slightly cloudy deep golden/orange with a smallish head. Has a sweet, slightly dank fruity aroma. Tastes sweet with some stewed and ripe fruit notes, and not a typical juice bomb, with some caramel nutty malts presenting as well. Has a bitterness more typical of a WC DIPA than a hazy. Has a slick and silky mouthfeel with moderate carbonation. Not at all typical for the style but still comes together very nicely.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Dec 2021
at 04:43
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Pours amber with a rapidly dissipating head.Nose shows white wine, soft oak, honey, funky, woody notes, lemon rind.Flavours include more white wine, caramel, butterscotch, cardboard, lemon, funk and a soft acidity.Body feels a bit watery.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2021
at 10:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From a 375ml can on 15/1/2021.Pours a super clear deep golden with a medium head. Not too much in the aroma - a little biscuit and the barest hint of fruit. The taste features some light biscuit malt and some quite sweet tropical fruit, countered by a firmish, sticky, resiny dry and somewhat warming bitterness. Still hides the 9.4% reasonably well. The mouthfeel is slick, the carbonation average. A fairly solid big DIPA, if not particularly memorable.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jan 2021
at 07:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From a 375ml can on 1/10/2020. Pours a slightly hazy medium golden with a smallish head. Has a modest tropical and citrus fruit nose. Reasonably assertive on the sip with a sharp, lingering citrus and grassy bitterness coming over the top of a medium tropical sweetness. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Has a fair bit of character but doesn’t quite come together for me.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Oct 2020
at 07:07
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Bad Shepherd pack. Purple red in colour. Berry nose. Puckery with blackberry aplenty. Very nicely done.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jul 2020
at 11:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From a 375 ml can on 25/5/2020. Pours a clear pinky red with a smallish slightly pink head. The nose features slightly fermenting berries. The flavour features more berries (I assume boysenberry) - mildly sweet up front with medium tart/sour finish. It's reasonably well balanced and quite refreshing, but I can't find anything IPA-like about it. That it's 8.8% is surprising as it could pass for 4.8%. Thin bodied with slightly spritzy carbonation. Okay I guess, but not my type of thing.
Tried
from Can
on 25 May 2020
at 09:08
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
A lonely aroma of butterscotch, toast, grapefruit and raisin, but the taste is less balanced. The traditional bitterness of the ESB clashes somewhat with the more AIPA notes, and the malt backbone is too weak.
Tried
on 25 Dec 2019
at 07:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Coffee, chocolate, toast and heaps of hops. A fantastic black IPA with a balanced palate and nice length.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2019
at 11:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Loads of red grapefruit, and yet it's not very tart. There are also notes of butterscotch and biscuit. It's beautifully balanced. An absolute beauty
Tried
on 22 Dec 2019
at 10:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 375ml can on 20/12/2019.Pours the darkest brown with a smallish head. Has a light nose of dark malt and resiny hops. Tastes of chocolate and caramel, with hints of coffee and smoke, finished off by some pretty big hops featuring lots of resin and pine. Full bodied with moderate carbonation. It's been a while since I've sunk a Black IPA, and I chosen a goody. Bold, flavoursome and well balanced. Aether is producing some seriously high quality gear.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2019
at 11:07