Peaches En Regalia
New Orleans Lager & Ale Brewing Company (NOLA)
- From:
- New Orleans Lager & Ale Brewing Company (NOLA)
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.8%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 11.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 03, 2020
- Added:
- Sep 08, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.61/5 rDev -31.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.61/5 rDev -31.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
CAN: 16 fl oz pull-tab with pink and purple label. Best by: 11/28/19. $11.99 USD plus tax for a 4 pack in New Orleans, LA.
"Imperial India Pale Ale w/ Peaches and Lactose. Experimental hops 342, 431, 692 and Rakau and Wakatu."
Served cold into a nonic pint glass.
APPEARANCE: Typical of the style with no standout characteristics. Pale copper body of averabe vibrance. Off-white head that sticks around 4 minutes.
AROMA: Mellow, not betraying its highish ABC. Melon, soft floral aromatics, subdued lychee, tangerine, clementine, passionfruit, papaya.
Not piney, oily, resinous, sharply citrusy, grassy, or herbal.
Aromatic intensity is mild for the style. Suggests an IPA (not quite an imperial IPA) with a suppressed hop profile lacking in hop pungency and depth of flavour.
TASTE: As expected. Hop profile is very muted/subdued, emphasizing mild tropical fruit notes like papaya and melon without bringing much to the table in terms of hop pungency or depth of hop flavour. Hints of lychee, some tangerine...there's surprisingly little going on here given they were after an imperial IPA. Pale malt keeps it balanced but there's no real hop bitterness to counter.
Simple and shallow.
The lactose sugar wasn't needed...it's not bitter enough, to be honest. If the intent was to showcase peaches in a fruited imperial IPA, they failed. I doubt I'd realize this was brewed with peaches in a blind taste test, and I don't get any peach-adjacent flavours like apricot either.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, slightly sticky, unrefreshing, well-carbonated.
OVERALL: A shrug of an imperial IPA. More of an IPA with a slightly higher alcohol content and the hop pungency of a mild pale ale. Doesn't showcase peaches well, nor is its use of lactose justified. Drinking this ale hopped with experimental hops makes me figure those experimental hops should stay experimental. Not a satisfying expression of the style by any measure.
C (2.82) / AVERAGE
***
09/08/19 another can:
Hop profile is lackluster. I don't see why one would want to brew or drink this.
At least it hides its ABV well.
D+ / NOT RECOMENDED
Sep 08, 2019"Imperial India Pale Ale w/ Peaches and Lactose. Experimental hops 342, 431, 692 and Rakau and Wakatu."
Served cold into a nonic pint glass.
APPEARANCE: Typical of the style with no standout characteristics. Pale copper body of averabe vibrance. Off-white head that sticks around 4 minutes.
AROMA: Mellow, not betraying its highish ABC. Melon, soft floral aromatics, subdued lychee, tangerine, clementine, passionfruit, papaya.
Not piney, oily, resinous, sharply citrusy, grassy, or herbal.
Aromatic intensity is mild for the style. Suggests an IPA (not quite an imperial IPA) with a suppressed hop profile lacking in hop pungency and depth of flavour.
TASTE: As expected. Hop profile is very muted/subdued, emphasizing mild tropical fruit notes like papaya and melon without bringing much to the table in terms of hop pungency or depth of hop flavour. Hints of lychee, some tangerine...there's surprisingly little going on here given they were after an imperial IPA. Pale malt keeps it balanced but there's no real hop bitterness to counter.
Simple and shallow.
The lactose sugar wasn't needed...it's not bitter enough, to be honest. If the intent was to showcase peaches in a fruited imperial IPA, they failed. I doubt I'd realize this was brewed with peaches in a blind taste test, and I don't get any peach-adjacent flavours like apricot either.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, slightly sticky, unrefreshing, well-carbonated.
OVERALL: A shrug of an imperial IPA. More of an IPA with a slightly higher alcohol content and the hop pungency of a mild pale ale. Doesn't showcase peaches well, nor is its use of lactose justified. Drinking this ale hopped with experimental hops makes me figure those experimental hops should stay experimental. Not a satisfying expression of the style by any measure.
C (2.82) / AVERAGE
***
09/08/19 another can:
Hop profile is lackluster. I don't see why one would want to brew or drink this.
At least it hides its ABV well.
D+ / NOT RECOMENDED
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