7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bomber from CBC Waterbury, bottled 5/10/17, drunk 5/26/17.
Light tangerine-copper with little/no head and whatever there is quickly receding to nothing. Solid haziness, though not soupy.
Leafy, green, fresh hop notes are lightly spicy and also turn tropical allowing juicy mango to emanate forth lightly. Not hugely aromatic, mostly on account of the very low carbonation, it would seem. Clean, anyways, with no alcohol, resin or messy ester. Can certainly see the quality not quantity argument here.
In the mouth it has very low carbonation, indeed, and shows more of the soft, mild, lightly juicy mango with lightly bready malts and a touch of yeast fruitiness. Malty, but still on the drier side overall, with a soft, supple texture that would, of course, benefit from an injection of tight carbonation. Finish is fairly strong on the mango and malt, but is otherwise clean and very free of any resin, messy esters or alcohol.
Light tangerine-copper with little/no head and whatever there is quickly receding to nothing. Solid haziness, though not soupy.
Leafy, green, fresh hop notes are lightly spicy and also turn tropical allowing juicy mango to emanate forth lightly. Not hugely aromatic, mostly on account of the very low carbonation, it would seem. Clean, anyways, with no alcohol, resin or messy ester. Can certainly see the quality not quantity argument here.
In the mouth it has very low carbonation, indeed, and shows more of the soft, mild, lightly juicy mango with lightly bready malts and a touch of yeast fruitiness. Malty, but still on the drier side overall, with a soft, supple texture that would, of course, benefit from an injection of tight carbonation. Finish is fairly strong on the mango and malt, but is otherwise clean and very free of any resin, messy esters or alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2017
at 14:08
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of tropical stone fruits, lots of juiciness, and resinous hops. Flavour is super fresh and juicy, with lots of tropical stone fruits, resinous hops, and pine. Juicy and resinous, bursting with fresh stone fruits. Wonderful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2017
at 23:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours hazy orange, medium off white head, good lacing. Aroma is some caramel, pine, grapefruit. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter. Medium body. OK, perhaps not super fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2017
at 00:02
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled on 04/18/2017.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance is a golden burnt orange almost copper color with a finger and a half’s worth of white foamy head that glistened and slowly receded. Some clingy lace.
The aroma pops a blend of citrusy to floral sweet hoppy tones up front. Spicy components of the rye slide in not necessarily underneath but it evenly bursts up into the hoppy tones. Light hay/grassiness at the end. Not as earthy as I thought it would be.
The flavor richly keeps the stable sweet floral and citrusy tones to meld with sweet side of the rye. Spiciness is still showing an ample amount of quality. Slight citrusy/floral and light rye aftertaste. Finish produces some the malts along with the rye.
The feel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it as the rye spiciness doesn’t impart enough harshness to distract. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, nice APA leaning towards a rye beer. Would likely come back to this for me.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance is a golden burnt orange almost copper color with a finger and a half’s worth of white foamy head that glistened and slowly receded. Some clingy lace.
The aroma pops a blend of citrusy to floral sweet hoppy tones up front. Spicy components of the rye slide in not necessarily underneath but it evenly bursts up into the hoppy tones. Light hay/grassiness at the end. Not as earthy as I thought it would be.
The flavor richly keeps the stable sweet floral and citrusy tones to meld with sweet side of the rye. Spiciness is still showing an ample amount of quality. Slight citrusy/floral and light rye aftertaste. Finish produces some the malts along with the rye.
The feel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it as the rye spiciness doesn’t impart enough harshness to distract. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, nice APA leaning towards a rye beer. Would likely come back to this for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2017
at 21:49
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A milky yellow ipa with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with loads of citrusy floral hops, grapefruit pulp, tropical fruit, very nice. In mouth, a nice smooth cereal biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, light treacle, light mineral notes, nice and smooth. On tap at Mule Bar.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Apr 2017
at 12:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle pours a bright, juicy orange with some sticky, lacing white head. Nose is nice, orange and orange marmalade, some grass, a little grapefruit, some bubblegum, muddled tropical fruit. Flavor is well blended, mango bubblegum, some light melon, orange, grass, light candy. Finishes fruity but dry. Well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2017
at 19:34
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22oz bottle at share. Light hazy golden, small white head. Tropical, fruity notes in both aroma and taste. Hops even favor the citrus , so this one is kind of juicy. Melons and mangos, nice feel overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2017
at 22:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours a hazy dusty golden with a coarse off white Graf and lacing great fresh citrusy flavors. Doesn’t seem like a double bit very pleasant .
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2017
at 19:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle pours out tropical fruit notes mango melons and some sweetness. Taste is more of the tropical melons pine citrus big hops combo and a sweet melon caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2017
at 17:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured into an English pint glass, the appearance was a mostly dark amber color with a nice light finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated fairly quick. Stringy foamy lace slides into the beer, some rings.
The aroma blends fairly well between maple syrup some grassy hops and roasted nuts. Subtle caramel/toffee malts ever so slightly in the background.
The flavor, once again, melds the maple syrup to the hops and the nutty to roasty malt backbone. Fairly well blended aftertaste between syrup, hops and malts in the aftertaste. Abrupt semi-nutty to maple sweet sort of finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Good carbonation. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, good for an amber ale and kudos to Frost for taking a style not so much loved anymore and brewing it to their own creative standards.
The aroma blends fairly well between maple syrup some grassy hops and roasted nuts. Subtle caramel/toffee malts ever so slightly in the background.
The flavor, once again, melds the maple syrup to the hops and the nutty to roasty malt backbone. Fairly well blended aftertaste between syrup, hops and malts in the aftertaste. Abrupt semi-nutty to maple sweet sort of finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Good carbonation. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, good for an amber ale and kudos to Frost for taking a style not so much loved anymore and brewing it to their own creative standards.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2017
at 20:50