7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From a 375ml can on 3/12/2019 (ABV listed as 8.5%, so we're truly in double NEIPA territory here). Pours a hazy golden with a small head. The aroma features strong citrus notes with some mango and passion fruit. Tatse wise it's a juice bomb - masses of blood orange and passion fruit dominate. It's medium sweet, with a fairly pronounced spicy peel bitterness which lingers in the mouth. The mouthfeel is slick with moderate carbonation. This is pretty intense and quite flavoursome. Could perhaps be a bit better balanced, but very enjoyable none the less.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Dec 2019
at 11:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 375ml can on 2/12/2019. Pours a clear deep golden with a medium head. The nose features sharp, fresh citrus, with a bit of mint in the mix. Taste wise, citrus dominates again with orange and lemon, but there's a dash of passion fruit in there as well. The hope are pretty big with lots of pine and resin. Medium bodies with average carbonation. This is pretty impressive - bold, distinctive and very tasty. Nice stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Dec 2019
at 10:34
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
From a 375ml can on 21/10/2019. Pours a deep brown near black. Has a powerful and lovely peanutty nose. On the sip it has oodles of milk chocolate and caramel, masses of peanut butter followed by a mild, ever so slightly tart bitterness which fits in beautifully. The mouthfeel is slick, the carbonation softish. Damn this is lovely stuff - desserty yet balanced, and never cloying. At least equal to, and possibly better than, Belching Beaver's peanut butter stout, which is my current peanut butter benchmark. Well done Aether!
Tried
from Can
on 21 Oct 2019
at 09:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From a 375ml can on 17/10/2019. Pours a cloudy golden with a smallish head. Has a really powerful coconut and mango nose. The flavour is more of the same, massive amounts of sweet mango mixed with coconut milk, finished off by a quite assertive, sharp bitterness. Has a milky texture and average carbonation. I'm a bit torn with this. It's strikingly original and flavoursome on the one hand, but on the other, there's something about it that's a touch weird. I can see some people loving it, so worth a try.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Oct 2019
at 11:01
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Pours hazy amber, lasting head.Nose shows tomato and celery along with a bit of cracked pepper.Flavours include more tomato and celery along with a bit of bitterness in the finish.Does what it says but the flavours don't really work.
Tried
on 19 May 2019
at 03:11
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Hopfest #13 at Alehouse Project. Pours hazy orange. Big citrus nose. requisite chewiness. Excellent use of the more sour citrus flavours as there is none of the sweetness that can render NEIPAs hard to chug. Lovely drop.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Mar 2019
at 23:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
The overwhelming aroma is spearmint, which translates as pine needles in the mouth. The taste is softened with melon and stone fruit. Challenging but rewarding.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2019
at 10:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Lots of burnt toast, coffee and dark chocolate, plus a little accused in the mouth. Lovely.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2019
at 10:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
GABS Auckland 2018. Pours black. Smoke, bit of chocolate, bit of toast, lots of umami smoke. Medium body. Missed the balance a bit.
Tried
on 30 Jun 2018
at 03:52
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Taster on tap at Aether Brewing. Pours golden. Pine nose. Full-bodied, with some caramel malts coming through under the big sprucy hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jan 2018
at 06:01