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3rd Blind Mouse Triple IPA
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10.2%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 5.46%
- Reviews:
- 6
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 16, 2015
- Added:
- Apr 11, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
We're not mousin' around with this triple-sized IPA. With a massive malt body and beautiful citrus hop nose, the heat on this 10.2% brew is surprisingly balanced and can really sneak up on you. No blind luck here, just blind faith in great taste.
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Ratings by Ghrymm:
Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
4.41/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.41/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
From a 650ml bottle a pretty powerful Triple IPA,Pours a nice light golden amber with a lasting small white head with good lacing.
A good citrus nose hit with pine and more. 10.2 abv can hit ya hard.
Awesome job Phillips ! If you see this one pick up a few its well worth it.
Nice booth at the Pentiction Beers fest guys.
Apr 19, 2015A good citrus nose hit with pine and more. 10.2 abv can hit ya hard.
Awesome job Phillips ! If you see this one pick up a few its well worth it.
Nice booth at the Pentiction Beers fest guys.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4.19/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Appearance - Pours an amber tone with three fingers of foamy white head.
Smell - Citrus hops, tropical fruit (Passionfruit and papaya), grapefruit peel, bready malts, caramel.
Taste - Bold citrus hops followed by the tropical and citrus fruits and the bready caramel malts. Bit of heat from the alcohol.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Nice bitter punch in the finish from the hops, as well as a warming sensation from the alcohol.
Overall - Like previous brews (Pandamonium and Monkey Drummer), this beer displays great hop flavour with a malt backbone. Well crafted brew.
Aug 16, 2015Smell - Citrus hops, tropical fruit (Passionfruit and papaya), grapefruit peel, bready malts, caramel.
Taste - Bold citrus hops followed by the tropical and citrus fruits and the bready caramel malts. Bit of heat from the alcohol.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Nice bitter punch in the finish from the hops, as well as a warming sensation from the alcohol.
Overall - Like previous brews (Pandamonium and Monkey Drummer), this beer displays great hop flavour with a malt backbone. Well crafted brew.
Reviewed by Derek from Canada (BC)
3.62/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.62/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Pours a nice head, not much retention but it leaves some lace.
Decent aroma, but not as much as I'd expect.
Definitely similar to the last anniversary brew. A little too much heat. Definitely hoppy, but it's not a fresh hop flavour. Extract? Mostly a steelie resin with some underlying tropical fruit.
Nicely balanced body, with a drying finish.
Why do they put this in a bomber? 12 oz would've been more than enough.
Jul 26, 2015Decent aroma, but not as much as I'd expect.
Definitely similar to the last anniversary brew. A little too much heat. Definitely hoppy, but it's not a fresh hop flavour. Extract? Mostly a steelie resin with some underlying tropical fruit.
Nicely balanced body, with a drying finish.
Why do they put this in a bomber? 12 oz would've been more than enough.
Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)
4.21/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.21/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Tasting notes: Phillips is now using the triple IPA moniker/brewing this style, although they've done some other huge hoppy brews before. This one greets the drinker with a huge tropical fruit bowl nose ... Pineapple, kiwi, passion fruit, orange. Very fresh and punchy aroma. Super blonde in appearance with a copious amount of frothy off-white foam on top. The taste is spot on based on one expectations of a "triple". Huge resinous hops with ample fruity notes and a light caramel or cracker sweetness in the background. The ABV is well-concealed considering the number although obviously one is going to taste the booze to some extent. Warming. Astringent. Huge hop tea flavor. Orange and grapefruit, pineapple skin, black tea bag, passion fruit or guava, pine, herbal liqueur or gin botanicals, and another huge blast of fresh citrus rind. Even gets a little earthy. In the mouth, this brew somehow hits light and drinkable yet coating at the same time. Gooseberry and herbal flavors feel like they could linger for days. Its indeed a big 'un. Could possibly be my top Phillips IPA to date (and I've sampled a great many).
Jun 05, 2015Rated by RandyFlameThrower from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev -6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Nice tasting beer, didn't like the flavours released quite as much as it warmed up. Still very nice, try it out.
Apr 26, 2015Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
4.04/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Phillips Brewing '3rd Blind Mouse' Triple IPA @ 10.2% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $5.50
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-hoppy
T-somewhat crisp & clean , has the big DIPA taste
MF-ok/decent carbonation , big full body ,
Ov-better than most from Phillips , possible good/great beer ,
prost LampertLand
Apr 26, 2015A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-hoppy
T-somewhat crisp & clean , has the big DIPA taste
MF-ok/decent carbonation , big full body ,
Ov-better than most from Phillips , possible good/great beer ,
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
650ml bottle. I'm sure some of Phillips' recent annivesary offerings were 'triple' IPAs as well. And it took until the third blind mouse for the effects of strong IPAs to kick in?
This beer pours a clear, bright pale copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random runic character lace around the glass as it rather slowly abates.
It smells of dank leafy and piney forest floor bitters, musty orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, grainy, dry bready caramel malt, and herbal tincture alcohol. The taste is more of the same - grainy, crackery pale and caramel malt, a strong green dank resinous essence, muddled and kind of yeasty citrus astringencies - maybe underripe grapefruit and lemon - hemp rope, and more herbal, leafy, and earthy hops, with the alcohol starting to softly arrive on its own terms.
The bubbles are pretty low-key in their unobtrusive frothiness, the body on the light side of an otherwise solid medium weight, and kind of tight and edgy, which precludes any nice words here about smoothness. It finishes dry, the crackery malt, the various and sundry hops, and some creeping death alcohol doing the deed as such.
As predicted, very reminiscent of Pandamonium and/or Monkey Drummer..., the thin-seeming, dry malt body underlying a miasma of hop orgasms. Yup, this is hoppy, and bitter, and really not all that boozy, all things considered, so if that's your thing (I may not be getting that point across all that well here, but it is indeed mine), this bud's for you.
Apr 14, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright pale copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random runic character lace around the glass as it rather slowly abates.
It smells of dank leafy and piney forest floor bitters, musty orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, grainy, dry bready caramel malt, and herbal tincture alcohol. The taste is more of the same - grainy, crackery pale and caramel malt, a strong green dank resinous essence, muddled and kind of yeasty citrus astringencies - maybe underripe grapefruit and lemon - hemp rope, and more herbal, leafy, and earthy hops, with the alcohol starting to softly arrive on its own terms.
The bubbles are pretty low-key in their unobtrusive frothiness, the body on the light side of an otherwise solid medium weight, and kind of tight and edgy, which precludes any nice words here about smoothness. It finishes dry, the crackery malt, the various and sundry hops, and some creeping death alcohol doing the deed as such.
As predicted, very reminiscent of Pandamonium and/or Monkey Drummer..., the thin-seeming, dry malt body underlying a miasma of hop orgasms. Yup, this is hoppy, and bitter, and really not all that boozy, all things considered, so if that's your thing (I may not be getting that point across all that well here, but it is indeed mine), this bud's for you.
3rd Blind Mouse Triple IPA from Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
Beer rating:
89 out of
100 with
14 ratings
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