7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Capped 750 from the Folsom BevMo. Pours clear copper with some bubbly white head. Aroma is a bit suggestive of cola. Hard to dissect. Med body. Flavor is malty, somewhat sweet, with arguably noble hops. It moves towards bitter, and seems a little grassy earthy. It is somewhat spicy. It certainly isn’t what I expect in the style, but at 9% what should one expect? Certainly a little malt. Heat’s not an issue. It gets a bit herbal. As time goes on I think I may consider it balanced. And there’s some sort of woody/moldy aspect coming out. Don’t mean that in a bad way. Everything about this beer is "different", but it appeals to me. Maybe this was a collaboration with those brewers from Epic in Seattle. :)
Tried
on 16 Aug 2012
at 18:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bomber from Bevmo Salinas. Nose is light candisugar with a little cloves and bubblegum. Clear orange copper with a small beige head. Flavor is lightly sweet and peppery with a tiny bit of bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jul 2012
at 19:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Earth and pine aroma. Pine and grapefruit flavor with light caramel. Medium bodied. Decent bitterness. Pine and grapefruit lingers with light earth and light caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2012
at 12:31
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours slightly opaque copper with gold hues and lasting semi loose off white head. The aroma starts with apple and apple skin followed by spicy saisin yeast that I have a tough time putting descriptive words to and then a mild acidic note and funkiness. The taste is interesting with a mix of sweet apple, tarter tannin like fruit skins, yeasty spices and then some funk and mild rauch malts to peatiness too. Interesting. So at times it gets sort of plastic with the peat and the smoke and at other times more funky. I like the oddness of this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2012
at 16:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bomber pours opaque copper to brown grapefruit juice with off white head. The modest aroma offers up citrus cotton candy and some rauch like maltiness. The taste is pretty smooth and not overly sweet per the double wheat typical flavor profile. I get some slightly tart, slightly sour citrus followed by sugary citrus cotton candy and some rauch malts. This is an interesting experience as these seemingly at odd notes come together with pleasing harmony.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jun 2012
at 16:17
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
22oz bomber pours sort of brown plum juice with virtually no head. The aroma offers up prunes and caramel and cut by a sour red wine note. The taste is similar with prunes, dates and caramel mixing with red wine like sourness and drying tartness. Seems a bit off.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2012
at 16:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from the Folsom BevMo. Pours light copper with a foamy/frothy/creamy near white head. Lots of floral/fruity hop over a sweet caramel backbone for aroma. LIfts the brain away! Med body or more. Flavor is floral/fruity with resin hints - but there’s something more. A herb type of thing. This is gloriously hoppy, tho not in a harsh NW citrus/resin way. Finishes nearly sweet, cause the hop isn’t harsh. Damn tasty ale.
Tried
on 27 May 2012
at 16:49
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
22oz bottle from Bevmo
Appearance: Pours slightly hazy deep golden with a medium size head and good lacing
Aroma: Floral and sweet toffee
Taste: Fruity, sweet dusty caramel, sweet and floral in the finish
Doesn’t highlight Nelson Sauvin hops. Another Hermitage fail, I guess it’s about time to stop trying this brewery.
Appearance: Pours slightly hazy deep golden with a medium size head and good lacing
Aroma: Floral and sweet toffee
Taste: Fruity, sweet dusty caramel, sweet and floral in the finish
Doesn’t highlight Nelson Sauvin hops. Another Hermitage fail, I guess it’s about time to stop trying this brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2012
at 22:45
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Nice deep copper coloured body with an amber glow and a thick, three centimetre tall tan head - very nice looking, especially for an IPA. Aroma of bright grassy and herbal hops with a bit of sugars, some caramel and a bunch of malt noticeable. Light to Medium-bodied; Grassy and herbal hoppiness up front that fades fairly quickly and just shows malt, caramel, cardboard and a bit of light earth at the end. Aftertaste is fairly simple with only malt and a touch of grassy and earthy hops noticeable. Overall, not such a great beer, I’ve had other single hop citra productions that were much better in showcasing the hops, but this one is a bit flat, one dimensional and doesn’t show enough of the hops to really get through. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from BevMo! in San Bruno, California on 05-March-2012 for US$3.99 sampled at home in Washington before heading back out to California in a few hours, on 30-April-2012.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2012
at 22:33
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle @ home. Hazy, reddish orange appearance with an off white head. Not very fresh, light citrusy hoppy, toasty, light caramel malty, bready aroma. Decent grapefruit, orange citrusy, honey, toasty, bready malty flavor. Probably would have been a little better fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2012
at 17:45