8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours hazy gold with a large fading head.Nose shows pine, resinous and spicy hops, clean malt, soft petrol-like notes.Flavours include peach, spicy, piny hops, clean malt.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2022
at 11:49
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours hazy gold with a small fading head.Nose shows peach, nectarine, pine, resinous hops and clean, sweet smelling malt.Flavours include more pine, resinous hops, clean malt, finishes reasonable dry.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2022
at 10:33
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Can. Amber with a near white head. Aroma of singed caramel, light herbal notes. Sweet with more caramel than biscuit before it jolts to decent (considering it turns out on a closer look to be a year old) bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2022
at 13:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 500ml can on 13/4/2022. Pours a hazy dirty golden with a biggish head. Has a modest nose of ripe tropical fruit. Tastes of papaya, passionfruit and a bit of pineapple with a modest tangy finish. Has a silky mouthfeel and moderate carbonation. Very solid without being particulalry remarkable.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2022
at 13:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From a 500ml can on 30/3/2022. Mr Banks Brewing seems to have morphed into Banks Brewing, with the 'Mr' dispatched from recent beers. Pour s a hazy golden with a small to medium head. Has a modest citrus and tropical nose. Tastes medium to high sweet with orange, mandarin, coconut and a bit of passionfruit, with a mildly tangy bitterness finishing off proceedings. Has a silky mouthfeel and average carbonation. A decent hazy DIPA but doesn't really stand out for mine.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Mar 2022
at 11:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours muddy gold with a small head.Nose shows mango, apricot, peach and clean maltFlavours include sweet clean malt, peach, pineapple and mango. Quite sweet. The booze is hidden though.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2022
at 12:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
A pleasant NEIPA, but it lacks guts. Not up to the usual Banks standards. Aromas of grapefruit, lemon, grass, honey, coriander and biscuit. Most of that just doesn't appear in the mouth, and the finish is a little short.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2022
at 10:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Big creamy aroma, plus passionfruit and pine. Slightly less full bodied than i'd expect but the flavours are lovely.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2022
at 10:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Pours clear straw with a quickly fading head.Nose shows corn, spicy and grassy hops, little else.Flavours include a bit of grainy corn and grassy hops. Restrained.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2022
at 11:48
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
From a 500ml can on 30/12/2021. Pours a slightly hazy golden with a medium head. Has a modest light spicy nose. taste wise, there's some light passionfruit, apricot and melon, which is met by strange and quite assertive bitterness featuring mint, spice and some plain old salt. The mouthfeel is slightly creamy, the carbonation moderate. Not sure how much Strata I've had, but I'm not liking it in this at all. Finishes slightly astringent and unpleasant. Unusual to get a dud from this brewer. Really disappointing.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2021
at 04:56