7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
on 26 Feb 2025
at 23:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
26th February 2025
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear amber beer with a small bubbly pale tan head. Light palate, semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Malts bring a pretty modest creamy sweetness and a fair dose of unsweet caramel. Dry piney hop intro into mild skunk a reasonably bright citrus peel. Light crisp finish leaves a mild bitter linger. For me a good West Coaster, goes right up to the boundary of what annoys me about this style but never crosses it, stays coherent and pretty darn suppable.
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear amber beer with a small bubbly pale tan head. Light palate, semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Malts bring a pretty modest creamy sweetness and a fair dose of unsweet caramel. Dry piney hop intro into mild skunk a reasonably bright citrus peel. Light crisp finish leaves a mild bitter linger. For me a good West Coaster, goes right up to the boundary of what annoys me about this style but never crosses it, stays coherent and pretty darn suppable.
Tried
on 26 Feb 2025
at 18:26
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
on 25 Feb 2025
at 23:08
7.4/10
Barrel is there, but boozy and thin. Some dried fruit on the nose and maybe a touch metallic. Touch of autolysis.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Feb 2025
at 13:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml can. Hazy golden, white head. Aroma of gooseberries, grape, grapefruit, tropical fruit. Taste has a big NZ hop hit up front, lots of gooseberry and grape, a touch of the savoury Riwaka, grapefruit, tropical fruits, strong pithy hop bitterness. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Feb 2025
at 22:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16th February 2025
Panda thanks to Cloin. A light haze on this yellow gold beer, very short lived off white head. Palate is light and semi dry, reasonable fine minerally carbonation. Thin pale malts, fairly sweet. Light cooling pine into thin but mildly bright citrus. Some Luminosa goodness on the back end which elevates this fairly average beer into pretty decent territory. A thin and semi dry finish..
Panda thanks to Cloin. A light haze on this yellow gold beer, very short lived off white head. Palate is light and semi dry, reasonable fine minerally carbonation. Thin pale malts, fairly sweet. Light cooling pine into thin but mildly bright citrus. Some Luminosa goodness on the back end which elevates this fairly average beer into pretty decent territory. A thin and semi dry finish..
Tried
on 16 Feb 2025
at 19:11
8/10
Tried
on 16 Feb 2025
at 03:14
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml can courtesy of my son for Christmas. Poured an unclear reddish light brown colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head and some broken lace. The aroma is toffee caramel malt. The flavour is moderate bitter and sweet, with a smooth, somewhat rich, earthy, herbal, light toffee, woody hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Feb 2025
at 15:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at ash's. Pours black, nose is chocolate, toffee, berries, raisin, taste is chocolate, toffee, vanilla, coconut, rum and raisin. 4
Tried
on 10 Feb 2025
at 11:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2025
at 19:16