8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can pour from Candia First Stoppe Country Store. It's an opaque dark yellow with light sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with poor retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong tropical fruit, peach, apricot, citrus. Taste is strong cherry, tropical fruits, lemon. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth, thick texture, average-to-lively carbonation and juicy finish as taste with late dry yeast. Overall, tons of juice in this one and decent complexity. Carbonation stings a bit when drunk quickly (so don't drink quickly). I expected much and it delivered.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Feb 2023
at 01:12
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
Undated can from Airforcehops, drunk 1/31/23. Thanks, Chris. Cloudy tangerine-brass-golden. Fizzy. Yes, there's the mango tangerine, it's strong, somewhat dominant and sadly joined by what seems to be diacetyl. Tart, buttery notes (?!) with some relief coming from the dry hop, but not enough-so. Biscuity and crackery malts seem well-supportive. Fish?? Is there fish in this? It tastes like fish fat or fish oil...And then there's diacetyl. And then some sugar and finally citrus. I don't care for the fish flavor and will now be dumping this.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Feb 2023
at 02:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can, undated as far as I can tell, from Airforcehops, thanks! drunk 1/26/23. Light to moderate cloudiness, not really all that hazy. Very light peach-apricot-tangerine color. Small, white head, slowly recedes to cover/ring. Some nice juiciness to it with lots of floral accents and a bit of mango and such thrown in to keep it round and fruity. Not much sense of the malt - low perceived sweetness with bread and cracker. Clean, not yeasty. Mostly citrus. Interesting pine-like bitterness on the very back of the palate, balancing an otherwise juicy, citrusy, mango-laden flavor. No weird shit going on and no melon, scallion or any of that. A very delicate sweetness with simple white bread-like malts. The bitterness feels a bit out of place flavor-wise, but is certainly welcome and keeps the beer nicely balanced. Well-done stuff, balanced and drinkable with appropriate bitterness. Will definitely go visit both of these brewers at some point.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2023
at 02:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16oz can from the Packie Hazy dark yellow color with a thin off white head that persists. Earthy grassy citrus and tropical fruits with hints of earth pine resin and sweet bread.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jan 2023
at 21:34
Tried
on 21 Jan 2023
at 17:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a slightly hazy, golden peach color, with minimal head. Aroma is quite dank, with some citrus and tropical fruit. Flavor follows, with a fair amount of piney bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel, again, seems a bit thin for the style.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2023
at 21:06
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a hazy, peach tea color, with minimal head. Aroma is tropical fruit and citrus, with a strong pine note. Flavor follows, with the pine note alternating between a butterscotch undertone and a cleaning fluid/air freshener level of pine. Soft mouthfeel.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2023
at 20:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a hazy, light, lemon yellow, with minimal head. Aroma is citrus and tropical fruit. Flavor is citrus and tropical fruit, with an unfortunate butterscotch aftertaste. Mouthfeel a bit thin.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2023
at 22:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a hazy, golden yellow, with smallish head. Aroma is a rather muted combo of citrus and tropical fruit. Flavor a bit more pronounced, with moderate level of hop bitterness at the finish. Soft mouthfeel.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2023
at 21:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a hazy, gold-pineapple, with smallish head. Aroma is juicy tropical fruit and citrus. Flavor largely follows. Moderate level of hop bitterness in the finish. Soft mouthfeel.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2023
at 20:55