5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at brewery. Pours cloudy pale yellow with white head. Aroma has moldy lemon peel, lemon rockets, weeds. Flavour has lemon peel, grassy fibers. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Sep 2024
at 04:50
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Flight pour at brewery. Pours murky yellow with white head. Aroma has light fruit and wheat. Flavour has stonefruit, wheaty malts. Neither bad nor good.
Tried
on 18 Sep 2024
at 04:44
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Flight pour at brewery. Pours murky pale yellow with white head. Aroma has lemon dish soap. Flavour has sweaty herbs and dish soap. Lacking quality control.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2024
at 22:13
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Flight pour at brewery. Pours murky pale yellow with white head. Aroma is pretty weak. Flavour has lemon rockets, fresh grass, tart citrus peel. Pretty shallow profile overall, meh.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2024
at 22:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[Vintage 2021]. 500mL bottle from the brewery. Pours very dark brown with almost no head. Aroma has a lot of the whiskey barrel and roast. Flavour has a roasted malt base with a good amount of whiskey. Based on older reviews it seems like the age has allowed the whiskey barrel to mellow out a bit. Still pretty boozy and unrefined, but enjoyable enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2024
at 06:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
473ml can. Pours a slightly hazy blonde with a small, foamy, short lived, off-white head that laces. Mild aroma of bready wheat malt, mango, salt and floral hops. Sweet fruity flavour of bready wheat malt, mango, spicy pepper, salt and floral hops in a dry, slightly tart finish. Light body with a watery texture and average to soft carbonation. Refreshing and crushable, but a little too timid.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Sep 2024
at 05:25
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Parallel 49, pours a clear dark red with a small off-pink head. Aroma has dry red grapes, some earthiness, no notice of the Nelson. Flavour is dry and grapey, with plenty of rather dry red grapes and some earthiness. The Nelson was totally wasted in here, as there's no hint of it whatsoever. Decent grape character but a profoundly mediocre and ambitionless beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Sep 2024
at 02:25
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
On tap at Parallel 49, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma has some floral dry-hopping and lacto in reasonably enough cohesion. Flavour is dry and balanced, with floral notes, lacto, and very light acidify. Very little depth and not particularly pleasant flavours. Not great.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Sep 2024
at 02:24
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at Parallel 49, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has a weird spicy hop character and graininess that doesn't seem quite dialed in right. Flavour has a very strange hop expression, with a sort of chemically spicy hop character and soft bready malt base. Weird experimental hops that don't work well here or, more likely, P49 has no idea what they're doing.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Sep 2024
at 02:22
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
On tap at Parallel 49, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma has a strange herbal, sweaty hop character, and a soft, dry, bready malt base. Flavour is bewildering in its hop expression: very subtle herbal grassiness, some strange tanginess (almost tartness) and a mineraly, seltzery mouthfeel that seems out of place. How do you mess up a pale ale this badly?
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Sep 2024
at 02:21