Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sample at the ’Smoked Meats and Beer’ tasting on 05/27/2017. Slightly cloudy golden-amber color with a medium off-white head that recedes gradually to a film. Partial rings of lacing. Aroma of tropical fruit, hops and malt. Medium body with flavors of citrus, herbal hops and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a fruity hop aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Pours a rich black brown from a bottle, nice khaki head. Aroma is rich coffee with a faint toffee note. Flavor is a let down, kind of a robusta, Dunkin coffee flavor with some weird off-putting toffee, doesn’t mix well at all, like some flavored coffee that the baristas couldn’t get rid of so that’s what they gave to the brewer. Thin and cloyingly sweet, makes me think kahlua hangover. Okay beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can shared at Leighton’s place 31/05/2017. Many thanks to Leighton for this one. A light hazed golden coloured pour with a fine white head. . Aroma is citrus, tangerine, pale grains, juicy, mango. Flavour is composed of light grains, sticky orange peel, tangerine, mango, semi sweet. Palate is semi sweet moderate carbonation, light sticky hop. Not bad at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can at LKS, cheers! It pours hazy golden with a small white head. The aroma is fresh, fragrant, lemon sherbet, tangy, candy, lychee, bit green and danky, brioche and icing sugar. The taste is crisp, dry, bitter, green, juicy, grassy, citrus peel, lemon sherbet, candy, minerals and tea leaves with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Fresh and green. Good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can split at Hackney Levels, thanks to the LKS, 31/05/17. Light golden blonde with a decent off white cap that soon dissipates. Nose is mellow citric peel, grains, pineapple, straw, tangerine, light caramel. Taste comprises light pine shavings, grapefruit, citric tinged straw, melon, soft breads, light passionfruit whisper. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with balanced hop bitterness. Ok mellow DIPA jus.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can shared in Hackney - picked up in Buffalo. Pours clear gold with a light, creamy white head. Decent aroma, a little honey, semi-ripe tangerine, pale bread. Light to medium sweet flavour with crispy pale malts, pale grains, ripening tangerine, melon, some bitter pine needles. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly warming in the finish with some biscuity pale malts, tangerine, melon, hay. Solid.
CLW (16859) reviewed Crushendo from Brewmaster Jack 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
16 oz. can. thanks to TJ on this one. yet another can with no date coding any place. Aroma is sweaty arm pits, weak pineapples chunks, grass. Flavor is pretty mellow. Reflections of the aroma. Pineapple is very mild, some grass, texture is a tad thin. I don’t mind it at all.
Chalumeaux (4962) reviewed Crushendo from Brewmaster Jack 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured from can hazy light pineapple with a thin white head. Aromas of grass straw hay floral notes and light citrus. Taste is dry mild fruit thin texture light pine finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Crushendo on 28 May 2017 at 13:21 - Score: 7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured into a tulip, the appearance was a golden copper color with a thin transparency about it. Some carbonation could be seen rising at a decent pace to fill a finger’s worth of quickening foamy head. Messy ring of lace.
The aroma had some sweet dried wood, light peaches, some pine needles, and lime. Steady malt base.
The flavor copied the aroma pretty much spot on leaning towards the sweet side and sliding into a sly bitterness of the pine. Drying bitter piney to peachy sort of aftertaste. Finish was quick with some subtle piney dry bitterness.
The palate was about medium bodied with a steady sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, decent DIPA that I could go at again.