7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours murky mango into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes to coat surface. White smarties, mango and guava aromas. Medium bodied with mango, guava and papaya upfront turning to earthy tangerine peel and pith in the medium length finish.
Tried
on 23 Feb 2023
at 01:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Undated can drunk 1/28/23. Heavily hazy, bronze-golden. Small, white head, low retention. Juicy, tropical, dense and subtle with lots of jam-packed mineral and passion fruit. Slow to emerge grape character with tangerine and such. Spicy coconut lingering with white bread and cracker-like malts and no alcohol or resin. Dense, subtle, tight flavors are slow to yield with round, lightly acidic grape character, rich, dry mineral and just a ton of coconut-like character. I would have guessed one of the recent HBC hops and am shocked to see this is Riwaka and cascade (the Nelson and citra make sense). Not sure where this spicy, dry coconut is coming from, but it's prevalent. Juicy, white wine-rich and good minerality otherwise, but a bit more of this coconut spice character than I'd prefer.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2023
at 19:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours murky light gold into a tulip. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving trailing spiders to coat surface. Mango, pineapple, melon, papaya and lemon/lime aromas. Soft with melon and papaya upfront turning to tangerine before the medium length dusty lemon meringue finish.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2023
at 22:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours mahogany tinged cola into a tulip. Mocha head with little retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet maple and bourbon aromas. Sharp with sweet dark chocolate, sweet maple and sweet bourbon upfront turning dry in the heavily oaked earthy burnt raisin bread finish.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2023
at 00:37
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Undated can drunk 1/8/23. Heavily hazy, peachy-golden-maize. Large, well-retained, off-white head. Wow this is a crazy smelling beer. Esters from alcohol and yeast mix with pomelo, tangelo, kumquat, riesling, sauv blanc and gooseberry. Cracker and biscuit with a pinch of honey from the malt balances. Very untraditional and interesting/experimental IPA. Estery though not hot/sharply boozey. No resin/flaw. Tons of sauv blanc character with soft malt and high attenuation. Wow, this really threads the needle between remaining dry enough while still balancing the hops and not coming off too boozey/bitter. I really appreciate the lack of syrupy, sweet, sugary malt used to balance but instead complex hop notes with extremely low bitterness. Not boozey. Gooseberry, kumquat, complex white wine and some light alcohol coming on the very end. Coastal Extreme is pretty frickin' top notch. I gotta keep getting more of their stuff. This is world class, cutting edge IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jan 2023
at 18:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours hazy gold into a tulip. White head with medium retention recedes leaving scant soapy spiders. Hot spicy straight hop aromas. Soft and creamy with sweet honey, hot sourdough upfront turning to hot tangerine pith and peel before the dusty, earthy onion finish. Weird.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jan 2023
at 22:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours hazy mango into a tulip. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving scant lacing. Mango, papaya and tangerine aromas. Soft with hot tangerine and overripe melon front to back. Lasting dusty juicy fruit and berry starburst finish.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jan 2023
at 23:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Brewery draught, 12/21/22. Heavily hazy, orange juice. White head to ring. Spicy, juicy, dank nose. Lovely. Some cracker and honey for easy balance. White wine and dank spice. Soft with heavy melon and sweet mango. Spice and melon balance white bread-like malt. Punchy tropical fruits. Syrupy texture. Weird stuff.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2022
at 00:36
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Brewery draught, 12/21/22. Very dark amber, more cerno Pivo than polotmavy, but whatever. Clear with a beige head that recedes quickly to ring. Strong roast/toast, a bit worrisome about the tannin. Smells extremely roasty, moreso than even a black lager should. And indeed it's super roasty. Good base malt but it clashes with the heavy dark, toasted malt. Tannic and highly acidic.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2022
at 00:31
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Brewery draught, 12/21/22. Raspberry-maroon, heavily cloudy, pinkish head to ring. Yes that's the mallow-like sugar with good berry and juice behind it. Acidity seems pretty high from the nose. But there's lots of lactose here, too. Sweet, sugary, lactose-forward but with good acidity. Phew this is sweet. I appreciate the attempt at balance but it's never enough with these sugar/fruit bombs. Lactose gross as always.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2022
at 00:23