Rickshaw
Cycle Brewing

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From:
Cycle Brewing
 
Florida, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
8%
Score:
96
Avg:
4.36 | pDev: 7.57%
Reviews:
9
Ratings:
76
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Nov 16, 2019
Added:
Nov 30, 2014
Wants:
  8
Gots:
  4
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Rated: 4.46 by mwvman from Indiana

Nov 16, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by smartassboiler from Illinois

Apr 03, 2017
 
Rated: 4.1 by Dirtinabottle from New York

Aug 05, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by oline73 from Maryland

May 28, 2016
 
Rated: 4.08 by CBrodbeck from Florida

May 22, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by azdback from Arizona

Apr 09, 2016
 
Rated: 4.25 by TravisMason from Indiana

Apr 02, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by brians52 from Virginia

Mar 26, 2016
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Rated by bubseymour from Maryland

4.34/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Smells of onion, darkness and cat piss. Therefore a great smelling beer for a hophead.
Mar 16, 2016
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Reviewed by JamieDuncan from Maryland

4.28/5  rDev -1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a crowler into a cycle weekday tulip. Clear light gold, very fluffy head, 2 fingers, dissipated slowly and left great lacing. Piney, onion, cat piss. Nice aroma. Taste follows aroma, floral, just a bit of a lingering bitter but very clean and very dry finish. Overall this is a very good, but not world class IPA.
Mar 16, 2016
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Reviewed by fmccormi from California

4.44/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Straight pour from a 32oz “crowler,” filled at the source one day prior, to an oversized wineglass. Nope, nevermind—tulip-snifter it is (Swamp Head stemware). This went straight to the fridge, and stayed there until consumption. FRESHHHHH.

Appearance (4.25): Light golden, clear body capped by a fluffy, chunky and lacy head (three fingers of it, in fact), dying down slowly. It leaves a rocky cap, and elegant splotches of shrubby lace on the edges of the glass. BEAUTIFUL. And fitting for the style.

Smell (4.5): Grassy and slightly tannic, with candied papaya, oily/dank (almost a garlicky type of funk, actually) pot, slightly woody, toasted biscuits, bready (nice pilsner malt there) . . . that funky dankness sits somewhere between fruity and garlicky. Weird, man. Slight passionfruit. Ugh, Nelson.

Taste (4.5): This comes in full with a weird, fruity-dank mix, followed by yellow grapefruit zest, in turn followed by a warm, malt wave of warm white bread drizzled with honey, accompanied by a toasty, vinous note. This is quickly blown apart by a serious cascade of berry-sweet, grassy-bitter flavor—intensely grassy with gooseberry and sticky, overripe pineapple nectar. This is almost disorientingly, intensely random, it seems, but I dig it. That bitterness grows into lemon zest and fres-cut grass as it lingers a good, long time.

Mouthfeel (4.0): Fairly subtle, soft carbonation (at the start) washes in with a full- side of medium-weight body, slightly syrupy, and a tad oily in feel. That carbonation blends with a boozy heat that dries up the palate with a soft, foamy, acidic and almost tannic feel. It fits the full-bodied, 9-10% ABV DIPA bill perfectly.

Overall (4.5): This beer slips under the radar if you’re not paying attention the way its palate unfolds, but if you do pay attention . . . goddamn, man. There’s a lot going on here, but it manages to be aggressively and dynamically hoppy while still playing up a full malt character at the same time. This is outstanding. It reminds me of a Nelson-dominated Gandhi Bot, almost . . . and I love both Gandhi and Nelson ☺ Highly recommended.
Mar 14, 2016
 
Rated: 4.1 by tkrane from Texas

Mar 11, 2016
 
Rated: 4.03 by SinjaminBentek from Nebraska

Mar 10, 2016
 
Rated: 4.18 by moneynoobject from Minnesota

Mar 10, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by hopkrid from Florida

Mar 07, 2016
 
Rated: 3.98 by nickfl from Florida

Mar 06, 2016
 
Rated: 3.96 by Roland7792 from Illinois

Mar 03, 2016
 
Rated: 4.25 by suckaj from Florida

Feb 27, 2016
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Reviewed by HeartofMiami from Florida

4.28/5  rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Not retired. Recently brewed and served from a Crowler. Nice rye bitterness adds to the fresh floral hoppy notes. Full body for a double IPA. Great!
Feb 06, 2016
 
Rated: 3.66 by buyyourfreedom from New Mexico

Feb 03, 2016
Rickshaw from Cycle Brewing
Beer rating: 96 out of 100 with 76 ratings