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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:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 16, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 30, 2014
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 4
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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
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, 2016Reviewed 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
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, 2016Reviewed by fmccormi from California
4.44/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
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, 2016Appearance (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.
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
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
Rickshaw from Cycle Brewing
Beer rating:
96 out of
100 with
76 ratings
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