7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours slightly hazed, dark gold into a Sam glass. Off-white head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Sweet pine and resin aromas. Well balanced with sweet caramel and earthy, roasted nuts and resin.
Tried
on 25 May 2012
at 15:23
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught Good white head, pale golden beer. Faint hoppy and pale malts nose, rather subdued. Bitterish, bit plasticky flavour, faint grassy notes. Retronasal some light sulphury notes. Very heavily carbonated, on edge of overcarbonated in feel, not visual. Light body, gristslickness. Not very interesting, this still season.
Tried
on 09 May 2012
at 23:34
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught Medium, dark beige-brown head over pitch-black beer. Coffee nose, dark chocolate, espresso or coffee drays. Sweet-bitter, roasted; good balance. Ends on good bitter chocolate. Well-bodied, hint at spirit, quite slick-oily, warming. Ah - this is Missions’ flagship brand; well done.
Tried
on 09 May 2012
at 23:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught Good off-white head over hazy amber-gold beer. Malt, lightly coloured malts, green hops (and not EU ones). Sulphur-y. Faint bitterish-toasted flavour. Hops are in evidence, but not really in balance with the main malt flavour. Warming up, sulphur gone, in exchange for nice nutbread flavour. Aftertaste is surprisingly dry-bitterish, some hopoils that are not bad. BIt sticky. Deserving, but still... I think somebody ought to catch the trolley to Düsseldorf, instead of USA-written cookbooks.
Tried
on 09 May 2012
at 23:23
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draught Small white head over golden beer with greenish shine. Sharp solvent nose, drying meat, estery, cloves. Cloves, sweet oranges, tad of mint in the finish. Low carbonation - in fact for the style utterly undercarbonated (somebody switched data with the Pils?). Wheatslickness, light body. Not convincing. Flavour is +/- right, but it presents itself lame.
Tried
on 09 May 2012
at 23:17
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught Small white head, well-carbonated deep golden beer. Malty nose, fresh, even greenmalt, active yeast. Bitterish, with some maltbase, but tastewise falling a tad flat. Carbonation lends a slight acidity to the tongue. Bit sticky feeel; gristslickness and light body. Average to decent blonde; excellent presentation, seldom seen for tasters.
Tried
on 09 May 2012
at 23:14
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught. Arbitrary score 4/5 for Appearance, as nighttime conditions prevented correct assessment. Very hoppy, IPA worthy, exotic fruit and orange marmalade. Very dry-bitter grapefruit, filled with some resin; bitter rosewater or lytchees (the kernels?) Light MF, quite slick, hopoils feel. Very classical, exemplary IPA.
Tried
on 09 May 2012
at 08:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught Small off-white head over foxy orange-golden beer, medium carbonation. Orange(peel)y nose, some garden herbs, suggestion of vegetable bitterness, faintly fruity. Very outspoken bitter first impression, with a bitterness that wavers between plastic-y and quinine, and a flavourprofile as from orangeessence. Slight sulphur. Agressive hopoils determining MF and aftertaste, medium bodied, quite slick, feels more heavily carbonated than it looks. Typical example of a I-want-a-big-one-too IIPA, which is not what I get from the other Mission Brewery beers. The plasticy component OTOH common in their brews, ought to be eliminated.
Tried
on 08 May 2012
at 06:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap. Pours a clear golden hue. Sweet biscuit, rich fruity and lightly bitter hops. Caramel. Balanced and easy. Very good. Orange througout.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2012
at 17:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from Beverages 4 Less in Santee, CA. Pours very black with a slight dark tan head. Aroma is dark malt, dark fruit, with hints of treacle and coffee. Full bodied. Flavor is dark fruit, smooth dark malt, light coffee and a treacle note. Very smooth. Creamy, with a finish that seems woody and nearly dry. Quite tasty.
Tried
on 17 Mar 2012
at 21:53