3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20 beer-yum (940) - Wellington, NEW ZEALAND - AUG 15, 2015
UPDATED: SEP 29, 2015 Alluring tropical fruit aroma in an amber-ruby pour. Flavour is hop forward and well balanced with a restrained clean finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 Stew41 (1811) - Woodend, AUSTRALIA - JUL 11, 2015
GABS Melb 2015: I think these guys are pretty good. Modern IPA with plenty of friendly fruit, toffee and super classy hops to tie it all together. Well balanced and surprisingly powerful.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 Lunkie (1620) - Glen Iris, AUSTRALIA - JUL 4, 2015
Hop herbal spice malt flavour. Clear deep Amber colour great head and lacing. Malt spicer herbal hop flavour. Smooth lingering palate.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 vanvenlo (1514) - Glen Iris, AUSTRALIA - JUL 4, 2015
Gertrude Hotel ontap(4-Jul-2015)Dark red,white head&sheet lace.Sweet herbal berry biscuit malt flavour.Bitter herbal spirit berry&spirit malt herbal aftertaste.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20 Dervock (662) - Emu plains, AUSTRALIA - JUN 27, 2015
Can 946ml - pours Amber red with an off white head. Biggest aroma Ive come across in a while, nettles, mango, mandarins, caramel, resin and rhubarb and custard Lolly; Huge mix of aromas! Taste is creamy a and well balanced some immediate sweetness temperd by the hops which never over do it. The finish is slightly citrus and just goes and goes. Palate is creamy and full. Best beer Ive had in a while.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20 Nicko (223) - Ashfield, AUSTRALIA - JUN 6, 2015
On tap at Henson Park Hotel. Deep red brown, small foamy head. Pine bread aromas, nice medium bitter finish. Went down well with a "knuckle sandwich".
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20 Mattress63 (72) - AUSTRALIA - MAY 31, 2015
I had to rate this because its that good. Simple. On tap at the Royal Albert Hotel in Sydney and at GABS Festival. A beautiful rich red appearance with a full creamy head, the aroma is of tropical fruits. A wonderful full mouthfeel, beautifully balanced and tastes of pine, mango and just enough sweetness from a predominant caramel maltness. Throw in that great lasting bitterness on the palate and you have pretty much as good a RIPA as you?ll find. Modus have nailed it with this one, a comment even echoed by Moa founder Josh Scott. So good I had to take 3 x 960ml cans of it back home on the plane with me!
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20 Samma (138) - Fitzroy, AUSTRALIA - MAY 14, 2015
On tap at Foresters Hall. Lovely caramel aroma. Full bodied, biscuity red ale. Toasty, sugared flavours built around a complex, well-rounded malt profile. Fantastic effort.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20 floydian1 (1217) - FNQ, Australia, - MAY 13, 2015
946ml can from Oak Barrel, Sydney (date filled 18/3/15, ABV 7.8%). Dark red-orange with a medium-sized stable off-white head. Aroma offers plenty of hoppy notes with oranges, pineapple, passionfruit and pine resin above a toasty biscuity crystal malt bill. Palate provides heaps of citrusy and resinous hop bitterness against the toasty malts with a medium-fullish body and a slick spritely mouthfeel. Hop bitterness is strong and lingering. A lovely hoppy red IPA.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20 Shark_Pants (480) - AUSTRALIA - MAY 9, 2015
Huge 946ml can. Ruby red with large frothy beige head. Big citrus, flowery and tropical fruit aromas rising above a malty base. The taste is quite the reverse, with the sweet maltiness forward and the hops in the background. Medium bodied and not too sticky for its big 7.6% ABV. Really good brew.
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