5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle and draft since inception.
Clear copper-brass. White head is medium-sized, showing modest retention.
Pine, pine and pine in the nose, with grapefruit, lemon and orange rind, as well. Definitely overdone/overboiled with vegetal notes and just heavy resin for days. Malts are sweet, almost cakey underneath, but don't balance.
In the mouth it shows an almost saccharine-like sweetness, but I think that's just the intense, piney resin mixing with the sweet malt. Past that, it's unbalanced and intensely bitter, like sucking on raw hop. Brisk carbonation, ok attenuation? Kind of hard to tell. No thanks.
Clear copper-brass. White head is medium-sized, showing modest retention.
Pine, pine and pine in the nose, with grapefruit, lemon and orange rind, as well. Definitely overdone/overboiled with vegetal notes and just heavy resin for days. Malts are sweet, almost cakey underneath, but don't balance.
In the mouth it shows an almost saccharine-like sweetness, but I think that's just the intense, piney resin mixing with the sweet malt. Past that, it's unbalanced and intensely bitter, like sucking on raw hop. Brisk carbonation, ok attenuation? Kind of hard to tell. No thanks.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2018
at 23:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottles and drafts since inception.
Always highly carbonated, with a strong residual sugar base, it seems since it always borderline gushes when it has some age on it. Clear, copper-tinged golden with mountains of white head.
Always smells a bit "off" and sure has a strange character to the yeast. Plastic, rubber, almost borderline Brett notes at time. Cracker and massively fruity yeast esters. Strong earth and mineral on the end.
In the mouth it's got more perceived body than your usual golden ale, mostly on account of the carbonation, but the malt does impart more biscuit and cereal character than usual, as well. Again, strong leather, mineral, plastic character; just a bizarre yeast signature really. Massively fruity and with light honey-like sweetness throughout. Pretty interesting at least, if very unusual.
Always highly carbonated, with a strong residual sugar base, it seems since it always borderline gushes when it has some age on it. Clear, copper-tinged golden with mountains of white head.
Always smells a bit "off" and sure has a strange character to the yeast. Plastic, rubber, almost borderline Brett notes at time. Cracker and massively fruity yeast esters. Strong earth and mineral on the end.
In the mouth it's got more perceived body than your usual golden ale, mostly on account of the carbonation, but the malt does impart more biscuit and cereal character than usual, as well. Again, strong leather, mineral, plastic character; just a bizarre yeast signature really. Massively fruity and with light honey-like sweetness throughout. Pretty interesting at least, if very unusual.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2018
at 23:11
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity @ GBBF 2017. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty weak citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity malty weak citrus hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty weak citrus hoppy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Sep 2018
at 08:59
7/10
Tried
on 04 Sep 2018
at 17:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours clear bright gold into an English pint. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to skim surface. Cracked malt and biscuit aromas. Soft with sweet caramel and hay front to back and into the mildly bitter earth finish. I liked this one...
Tried
on 31 Aug 2018
at 21:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours slightly hazed gold into a tumbler. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving gloppy lacing. Mild lemon and yeast aromas. Soft with sweet banana and bubblegum upfront turning to sour overripe lemon peel and husky wheat in the medium length finish.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2018
at 21:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at GBBF '18, day 3, 09/08/18. Clear golden blonde with a decent off white cap. Nose is orange pith, melon, citric tinged straw, pine resin, mango pulp. Taste comprises grapefruit, pine resin, cantaloupe melon, papaya, tangerine, soft bread. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close peppered with juicy hop bitterness. Solid cask IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Aug 2018
at 08:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at GBBF 2018, Olympia, London. A golden/yellow coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, citrus, orange aroma. Tastes similar, hoppy, citrus, orange, some tropical fruit, slightly sweet. Pleasant enough.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Aug 2018
at 10:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2018 - Day 3 🇬🇧 [ Great British Beer Festival 2018 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.
[ As Mayflower New World IPA ].
ABV: 6.0%. Cloudy - hazy medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate to light heavy hoppy, orange, mandarine, pineapple - mango. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, sweet malt, pale malt, orange, mandarine, pineapple - mango, medium dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180809]
7-3-7-4-15
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2018
at 06:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the GBBF 2018 day 3 09/08/2018. A translucent yellow straw coloured pour with a fading white head. Aroma is nice fresh, floral citrus, grassy, orange,. Flavour is composed of semi sweet wheat, oily jaicy mango. Orange, grape, doughy wheat. Sticky. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Aug 2018
at 07:40