Calyptra
Jack's Abby Brewing
- From:
- Jack's Abby Brewing
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 7.77%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 45
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 03, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 18, 2015
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 54
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
This hoppy lager is brewed with two intense and aromatic hops, Calypso and Citra. It’s an easy drinking brew that balances dominating fruity, citrusy, and tropical aromas with a sessionable malt body.
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Ratings by cavedave:
Reviewed by cavedave from New York
3.92/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
Beautiful slightly cloudy dark straw colored pour is topped by an inch of white foam and then a nice ring with lace clinging in sheets above it.
Lemony zing and general citrus with that Jack's Abby lager yeast tart holding it together front crackery sweet for a medium strength aroma that is very alluring.
Add some righteous bitter pith to the aroma flavors and you have this baby's taste profile nailed. Very bright presentation. Just sweet enough/just herbal bitter enough at the end of sip. Tasty for sure.
Very light in mouth, with fairly high carbonation and some nice and clean resin linger that frames the flavors well. There is a bit of carbonic build up is the only ding.
Really tasty beer I recommend when you want something very refreshing and a little bit different than a pale ale.
May 15, 2016Lemony zing and general citrus with that Jack's Abby lager yeast tart holding it together front crackery sweet for a medium strength aroma that is very alluring.
Add some righteous bitter pith to the aroma flavors and you have this baby's taste profile nailed. Very bright presentation. Just sweet enough/just herbal bitter enough at the end of sip. Tasty for sure.
Very light in mouth, with fairly high carbonation and some nice and clean resin linger that frames the flavors well. There is a bit of carbonic build up is the only ding.
Really tasty beer I recommend when you want something very refreshing and a little bit different than a pale ale.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.69/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From the can, it pours a light hazy golden color with a modest head. Some citrus hops in the nose, followed by a light grapefruit flavor and bread in the mouth. Nice.
Jun 21, 2018Rated by ryanm3850 from Rhode Island
3/5 rDev -22.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -22.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Its a lager. slightly floral for a lager, but just a lager all the same.
Dec 28, 2017
Rated by biointen from Massachusetts
4.1/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Lots of flavor compared to most session ales!
Nov 12, 2017
Reviewed by VoxRationis from New York
3.9/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.9/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Decanted from a 12 oz (355 ml) can into a conical pint glass; no production information.
A: Pours a hazy dark golden color with a half inch, foamy white head, low retention, and moderately ringed lacing.
S: Fruity aromas of peach, mango, and lemon citrus, with pine and cracker notes evident.
T: Tastes of cracker with a lighter citrus component than I expected. Very light, nicely balanced bitterness.
M: Light to medium bodied with medium carbonation. Crisp finish.
O: An interesting and enjoyable meeting of American Pale Lager and IPA with a session flair. What's not to like.
Nov 08, 2017A: Pours a hazy dark golden color with a half inch, foamy white head, low retention, and moderately ringed lacing.
S: Fruity aromas of peach, mango, and lemon citrus, with pine and cracker notes evident.
T: Tastes of cracker with a lighter citrus component than I expected. Very light, nicely balanced bitterness.
M: Light to medium bodied with medium carbonation. Crisp finish.
O: An interesting and enjoyable meeting of American Pale Lager and IPA with a session flair. What's not to like.
Reviewed by GratefulBeerGuy from New Hampshire
3.42/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12 oz. Can poured into s small dimpled Stein.
A very slight, humid haze in the pale, white golden color. A high rising white, bubbly and foamy cap leaves a bit of clumpy lacing as it recedes to just a few scattered clumps of foam.
The aroma is heavy on earthy, pine and spicy hops. A fundamentally sound, grainy malted barley aroma is easily detected within. Musky, herbal, grainy with a nice hit of the aromatics from the Calypso and Citra hops.
Honestly, the balance of flavor's is what impresses me most after the first swigg. A very bold, grainy and rich malted barley flavor pops right out, showing off its Lager heritage. The hop combo comes over as pretty light, earthy and very herbal with maybe a very subtle hint of pine and citrus tones.
The body is light to start, medium in the middle with a decent malty effect. The finish is slightly dry with a malty ending. Light on the flavor, but the cones actually blend in with the malty flavors very well indeed.
A light IPL with goid malt charecter and subtle, but effective hops. Sessionable for sure...perhaps IPL light sums it up.
Oct 25, 2017A very slight, humid haze in the pale, white golden color. A high rising white, bubbly and foamy cap leaves a bit of clumpy lacing as it recedes to just a few scattered clumps of foam.
The aroma is heavy on earthy, pine and spicy hops. A fundamentally sound, grainy malted barley aroma is easily detected within. Musky, herbal, grainy with a nice hit of the aromatics from the Calypso and Citra hops.
Honestly, the balance of flavor's is what impresses me most after the first swigg. A very bold, grainy and rich malted barley flavor pops right out, showing off its Lager heritage. The hop combo comes over as pretty light, earthy and very herbal with maybe a very subtle hint of pine and citrus tones.
The body is light to start, medium in the middle with a decent malty effect. The finish is slightly dry with a malty ending. Light on the flavor, but the cones actually blend in with the malty flavors very well indeed.
A light IPL with goid malt charecter and subtle, but effective hops. Sessionable for sure...perhaps IPL light sums it up.
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