Cyclope Gamma IPA
Brasserie Dunham

Nice orange/peach color with good foam and lacing. Not so tranlucide. The nose is amazing. Green grapes, pineapples, mangos, oranges, mandarins, peaches, apricots. Very fruity and inviting. The taste is as fruity with a very mild bitterness. I perceive notes of grassy hops in the middle of the sip. Quite dry finish. A very good IPA, very straightforward.

Poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a dark copper orange color with a finger's worth of white foamy head swiftly sliding off. Some messy sticky lace glossed the sides of the glass.
The aroma had some grapes, lemongrass, apricots, floral hop character, cantaloupe and white bready malts.
The flavor leaned initially towards the sweet side then seemed to develop a light balanced bittersweetness. Mostly mild aftertaste of floral hops, lemongrass, apricots and white bready malts.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionable to sipping on between character to it. Good carbonation and ABV. Mild finish of cantaloupe/melon/floral dryness with white bready malts.
Overall, I'd say this was a pretty good American styled IPA I could come back to.

 

 

 

 

 

Service: Bottle
Bottled on: End of August 2015*


A:
Pours a slightly hazy honey color with a big, airy three fingers of beige head that sticks around pretty well at a rocky 2 fingers. Excellent retention; huge globs stuck to the glass more than lacing. (4.25)

S:
Orange and soft floral sweetness. Clemintines, cantaloupe, sugar, slightly bread herbal sweet. (4)

T:
Flat bitterness with a juicy sweetness in the middle. Piney resin, some light citrus sweetness and a rising medicinal bitterness that hovers right about at my limit once it finishes growing in your mouth. (3.75)

M:
Dry as a bone with medium carbonation and a light-medium body, there is a dry, bitter prolonged aftertaste that almost hurts drinkability. (3.75)

O:
Very good beer with another interesting hop combo (this time Mandarina Bavaria and Hallertau Blanc).
This is a lovely sight to see in the glass. The aroma is full of juicy oranges and spring sweetness. Very enticing. The flavor is more bitter with the herbal, spicy Euro characteristics being really predominate. All-in-all it is an excellent beer that I would have again. It was no less drinkable because of how pill-like it tasted at times; but if that was curved a tiny bit it would be specular.
Would have again; worth a shot. (4)


*-I don't think this one showed any bad signs of being a little old, but super fresh I could see it popping a bit more, perhaps.

EDIT: I just had a bottle very fresh. There was definitely more fruitiness than I remembered (confirmed by reading my review). A mix of macerated green grapes, clementines, and earthy, grassy bitterness. The taste definitely deserves to be bumped to a 4. The hops were much more assertive and made me want to drink more. Other than that it was much the same.

 

 

 

 

Bottle: Poured a yellow color ale with a large pure white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of dry hoppy floral notes with some fruity notes. Taste is also a mix of dry floral hoppy notes with light residual sugar notes and light fruity ester. Body is about average with good carbonation. Interesting used of hops that are not that well known for now.

 

 

Good looking, lots of carbonation in the blonde beer with a nice 1-inch foamy head. Smells fruity. Grapefruits, peach, grapes, pineapples, orange are all noticeable. Really hoppy and bitter when you taste it with some fruitiness behind the hops. Really really smooth, almost creamy. Not much carbonation is noticeable in the mouth with seems weird considering what you see.