Lupulin Advisory 5.0
Boneyard Beer Company

 

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium golden amber with a two finger white head with good retention and nice lacing. Aroma of dank and fruit hops, mixed tropical fruit, grapefruit and some catty dankness. Flavor is dank and tropical fruit hops, overripe mixed tropical fruit, orange, mild mixed light stone fruit and catty dankness. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. A dank and fruity imperial IPA that leans mostly to the dank side. There is a variety of fruit, but it's quite busy and somewhat muddled. Oddly it somewhat comes together in the finish where lingering fruit esters add some more interest to the already solid dank notes. I liked this one although the flavors aren't all that integrated. As expected from Boneyard, a solid hop bitterness in the finish.

Look: Semi-clear dark yellow with a sudsy head that settles to a film, leaving good lacing behind

Aroma: Pine, grapefruit, orange, peach, mixed berries, and some dank

Taste: Peach and a ton of it hit hard up front as waves of pine and citrus fruit trickle in behind. More citrus and peach emerge along with berries in the middle before closing with peach, pine, and oranges

Mouthfeel: Full, lightly slick, medium-high carbonation, and minimal dryness on the finish

Overall: This is okay but not really my cup of tea. I found it to be too peach heavy throughout, at times dominated by it, and I blame the HBC1019 as it’s a peach bomb and very easily overpowers other hops in my experience with it. This had potential on the nose but that doesn’t translate to the flavor for me. YMMV

L: Pours a pale straw yellow with a medium foamy white head that takes some time to dissipate and leaves no lacing on the glass.

S: Lots of sweet tropical fruit, I get notes of orange, grapefruit, lemon and some sugary sweetness, the aroma is a bit muddled.

T: Lots of sweet tropical fruit, orange, grapefruit lemon and medium hop bitterness. Not quite as sweet as I was expecting.

F: Medium body prickly carbonation.

O: It doesn't blow me away but it's solid.

16oz can from Tavour. Clear golden pour, one finger frothy white head, lacing. Light hoppy aroma, classic piney notes, sweet. Taste is tropical, stone fruit, melon, dry. Not the over the top hop bomb I was expecting