4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
330ml bottle into schooner. Very faint aroma of hops and malt. Pale amber beer with frothy white head, medium carbonation. Mineral water taste and feel. Finish is very slight, a bit metallic, a touch of sweet lemon. Forgettable mid-strength.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2016
at 00:19
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle into shaker. Fruity hop aroma. Deep copper colour with solid white head. Lightly carbonated. Flat chalky mouthfeel. Finish is bitter and hoppy with a touch of late fruitiness. Fairly average IPA but nice enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2016
at 03:49
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml can into lager glass. Aroma of grapefruit, cheese, old socks, some funkiness going on here. Copper coloured beer with solid white head, steady fine carbonation. Slight zing in the mouth, taste is caramel and bitter lemon. Finish is dry with a chalky bitterness. Solid pale ale, quite sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Feb 2016
at 22:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml bottle into schooner. Unfiltered, looks like pineapple juice with a solid two-finger white head. Some carbonation happening. Aromas of tropical fruit with a touch of cream. Very nice, creamy mouthfeel, a little zingy bitterness, malt background and more light tropical fruit to finish. Surprisingly good, refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2016
at 22:58
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can. Clear amber with a modest off white head. Aroma of caramel, passionfruit, mango and grass. Tried rather cold and it seems a bit lifeless, although the flavours and balance are OK if a tad meek. Sweet with caramel and some very light bread. Tropical notes are partly masked by the sweetness, but it dries out enough to make the modest bitterness register, and the promised subtle citrus just peeks through as grapefruit pith. Tried rather cold and it seems a bit lifeless. Tried rather cold and it seems a bit lifeless, although the flavours and balance are OK if a tad meek. A bit warmer - 9C - worked better. These folks are owned by Asahi, right? Beat my expectations for what they were trying to do as well as how well they did it.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2016
at 05:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Big fruity nose, lots of citrus. Orange amber body, small creamy beige head. Taste brings more malt to the mix, faint caramel, biscuity flavors. Finish is a bit flat, ant very bitter, but decent.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2015
at 23:55
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
330ml bottle into glass. Subtle hop nose. Dark amber beer with scummy head. Zingy taste with abrupt slight malt/ floral hop finish. Sessionable but instantly forgotten.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2015
at 02:51
3/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
330ml bottle into glass. Slight sweet malt nose + something else. Hard to pick, grass?, plastic?, bubblegum? Amber beer with minimal head. Little carbonation. Mineral water taste then a little plastic bubblegum again then nothing. Totally bland. No hops, no malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2015
at 02:23
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
(Bottle) Clear amber with tiny, short-lived very loose head. Initial aroma pleasant mix of citrus and tropical fruit over caramel with some cardboard hints, but after a while unfortunately the balance shifts to the caramel and cardboard. Light body, medium carbonation. Taste is watery with citrus at the start, hints of caramel in the mid palate and a little, rather unpleasant somewhat metallic bitterness in the finish. Disappointing - thin and dull, but inoffensive and quaffable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2015
at 06:48
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
From a 330ml bottle on 23/2/2014. Pours a clear dark golden with biggish white head. Has a modest aroma of fruit, grass and a touch of malt. Flavour wise, there’s a bit of sweet caramel malt and a hint of fruit, with a touch of stale grain you get with many macro lagers. It finishes with a very light bitterness, with the reference in the blurb to dry hopping not ringing true. Has a light body with average to lively carbonation. If you had it blind, you wouldn’t pick it as an IPA - it’s more a malt driven APA, and a fairly pedestrian one at that. By IPA standards, this is a hop po ha.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2014
at 20:16