Murray's The Filth IPA
Murray's Craft Brewing Co.
- From:
- Murray's Craft Brewing Co.
- Australia
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.01 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 19, 2012
- Added:
- Nov 19, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.01/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
3.01/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
This was brewed as a one-off for the Murray's Hoptoberfest dinner at their Manly location during craft beer week. It was a 100% Brett-fermented IPA, 11% ABV and packed to the eyeballs with hops. Take this review with a grain of salt: this was brewed to be extreme and to pander to the ravenous crowds who want insanity over balance and poise.
Pours a solidly hazed orange hue with a surprisingly light and liquid body. Head is solid and fine and quite pure white. Some spots of lacing, but the fluid body doesn't really let anything stick.
Aroma is immediately pummeled with a mineral bite, almost like chlorine at the start. Then the hops make their presence felt, leaving a raucous cacophony between the brett and the fruitiness. Think bitter melon, tough lychee skin or tropical juice that has been sat in the sun for too long. The mineral character gives it a saltiness as well, which is just weird.
The taste is actually a lot less cacophonous, but surprisingly less complex as well. The front bites with a biting, slightly phenolic pepper and chlorine mix, before the bitterness from the hops kicks in, leaving a raw line down the centre of the tongue and an astringent finish. It's only after all this has been left behind that the intense booze character appears on the aftertaste. It's powerful but slightly painful, and feels pretty unbalanced. Feel is quite thin and raggedly biting.
I think this needs to go one way or the other: it could really actually use some true acidity to it, taking it down the sour route and properly complementing the funk and all the weirdnesses that come with that. Or else, you could remove the brett funk altogether: for a start, the hopping feels way too high for the brett, melding to form that offensive chemical character.
Whatever happens, this felt very much like an experiment (as it was), but it's not one that I'm particularly keen to repeat.
Nov 19, 2012Pours a solidly hazed orange hue with a surprisingly light and liquid body. Head is solid and fine and quite pure white. Some spots of lacing, but the fluid body doesn't really let anything stick.
Aroma is immediately pummeled with a mineral bite, almost like chlorine at the start. Then the hops make their presence felt, leaving a raucous cacophony between the brett and the fruitiness. Think bitter melon, tough lychee skin or tropical juice that has been sat in the sun for too long. The mineral character gives it a saltiness as well, which is just weird.
The taste is actually a lot less cacophonous, but surprisingly less complex as well. The front bites with a biting, slightly phenolic pepper and chlorine mix, before the bitterness from the hops kicks in, leaving a raw line down the centre of the tongue and an astringent finish. It's only after all this has been left behind that the intense booze character appears on the aftertaste. It's powerful but slightly painful, and feels pretty unbalanced. Feel is quite thin and raggedly biting.
I think this needs to go one way or the other: it could really actually use some true acidity to it, taking it down the sour route and properly complementing the funk and all the weirdnesses that come with that. Or else, you could remove the brett funk altogether: for a start, the hopping feels way too high for the brett, melding to form that offensive chemical character.
Whatever happens, this felt very much like an experiment (as it was), but it's not one that I'm particularly keen to repeat.
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