Backwards Booby Trap
New Orleans Lager & Ale Brewing Company (NOLA)
- From:
- New Orleans Lager & Ale Brewing Company (NOLA)
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.6%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 11.8%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 31, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 12, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.67/5 rDev -28.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.67/5 rDev -28.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
16 fl oz pull-tab can with a green & blue label:
The lack of a canned on or best before date shows us NoLa Brewing doesn't care much about consumers getting this fresh. 4-pack nabbed at a NoLa supermarket for $11.99 USD plus tax.
7.6% ABV. "India Pale Ale with Lactose & Meridian & Sultana hops." "Milkshake IPA."
Served cold into a shaker pint.
Lemongrass. Grassy hop flavours. Pale malt/2-row. Faint lactose sweetness. Floral hop flavour. Subdued tangerine. Some herbaceous hop flavour (probably from the Meridian, which I've read sometimes parses as a sort of spearminty flavour). Loads of pineapple hop flavour are present...I'd say this is pineapple dominant (from the Sultana/Denali), which is the least appealing tropical fruit in an IPA to my tastes. At least it isn't the warm boozy pineapple I'm so used to...this hides its ABV quite well, but I don't know that the lactose is really worth the tradeoff in terms of increased sweetness.
Not fruity or lactose-dominant enough to really earn its "milkshake IPA" designation. If pineapple-heavy Denali-dominant IPAs with unnecessary sweetness and low depth of hop flavour are your bag, you're in for a treat with this one. For those of us who buy IPAs hoping for a balanced brew with well expressed hop flavours from aptly selected and fully showcased hop varietals, this is a letdown albeit a drinkable one. I definitely wouldn't buy another 4-pack, especially at $11.99 USD, but it's middling fare that will get you drunk.
One of NoLa's worst offerings in recent memory, which is to say it's merely mediocre. And can we agree these milkshake/slushy/sherbert/Odwalla approaches to the IPA style need to get the ole kibosh put on them?
C- (2.67) / BELOW AVERAGE
Jul 31, 2020The lack of a canned on or best before date shows us NoLa Brewing doesn't care much about consumers getting this fresh. 4-pack nabbed at a NoLa supermarket for $11.99 USD plus tax.
7.6% ABV. "India Pale Ale with Lactose & Meridian & Sultana hops." "Milkshake IPA."
Served cold into a shaker pint.
Lemongrass. Grassy hop flavours. Pale malt/2-row. Faint lactose sweetness. Floral hop flavour. Subdued tangerine. Some herbaceous hop flavour (probably from the Meridian, which I've read sometimes parses as a sort of spearminty flavour). Loads of pineapple hop flavour are present...I'd say this is pineapple dominant (from the Sultana/Denali), which is the least appealing tropical fruit in an IPA to my tastes. At least it isn't the warm boozy pineapple I'm so used to...this hides its ABV quite well, but I don't know that the lactose is really worth the tradeoff in terms of increased sweetness.
Not fruity or lactose-dominant enough to really earn its "milkshake IPA" designation. If pineapple-heavy Denali-dominant IPAs with unnecessary sweetness and low depth of hop flavour are your bag, you're in for a treat with this one. For those of us who buy IPAs hoping for a balanced brew with well expressed hop flavours from aptly selected and fully showcased hop varietals, this is a letdown albeit a drinkable one. I definitely wouldn't buy another 4-pack, especially at $11.99 USD, but it's middling fare that will get you drunk.
One of NoLa's worst offerings in recent memory, which is to say it's merely mediocre. And can we agree these milkshake/slushy/sherbert/Odwalla approaches to the IPA style need to get the ole kibosh put on them?
C- (2.67) / BELOW AVERAGE
Reviewed by jngrizzaffi from Texas
4.21/5 rDev +12.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +12.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a very hazy deep golden color with a thick foamy head. Head retention and lacing are both very good. Very light citrus and piney aroma. There is a hint of sweetness. Nice juicy citrus taste. Small amount of piney bitterness. Lactose is present but not overwhelming. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Jun 24, 2020
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