Missile Toad Imperial IPA
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 2.5%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 16, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 23, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
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Missile Toad is loaded with fruit forward Ella hops from across the pond (New Zealand), to create a double IPA worth croaking about. Tropical fruit, citrus, floral and spicy – this brew covers most of the range of hoppy flavours in one bottle. Though “balanced” is not usually associated with the IIPA style, Missile Toad drinks extremely easily with a dry finish and a bitterness that doesn’t hang around.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.92/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Phillips Brewing 'Missile Toad Imperial IPA' @ 9.% , served from a growler $10 & a couple of 650 ml bottles $7 each
A-pour is a light gold from the growler/bottle to a clear gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a fine streaky lace along the pint
S-ella hops
T-decent malt , lots of hops , kinda smooth , dry finish on the swallow
MF-decent carbonation , big bodied , no hiding the ABV
Ov-love the play on Mistletoe
prost LampertLand
Feb 24, 2017A-pour is a light gold from the growler/bottle to a clear gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a fine streaky lace along the pint
S-ella hops
T-decent malt , lots of hops , kinda smooth , dry finish on the swallow
MF-decent carbonation , big bodied , no hiding the ABV
Ov-love the play on Mistletoe
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.92/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - I'm quite enjoying the subtle pun going on here, which has further been enhanced by this brewery's marketing department's fascination with scaly green creatures. It reminds me of the weirdness of my toddler's age-appropriate video games. Mistletoe not included.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly creamy ecru head, which leaves some seemingly saggy gear chain lace around the glass as it very lazily recedes.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a touch of white saltine crackers, muddled domestic citrus and equally distorted exotic fruitiness, minor hard water flinty notes, and some heady leafy, piney, and gently perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and crackery pale malt, an ephemeral caramel sweetness, still hard to differentiate citrus rind, a sense of tropical fruitiness unrequited, and more bristling leafy, herbal and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly robust in its probing and tingly frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess ducking and weaving around any of those sexy south seas hops who may or may not know any better (sorry?). It finishes off-dry, with the mixed citrus and other berry-forward fruitiness doing well to force the lingering malt to up its lagging game.
Overall, I gotta say, I do love me some Phillips big-boy IPAs - this time they use some antipodean hops in the guise of a holiday-themed brew, which would normally be part of the 'advent' calendar they are no longer making - no biggie. I'd rather just see the new stuff (like this), and not be forced into buying a dozen or so old standbys at a time of year when my own beer, er 'calendar' is certainly over-committed.
Nov 29, 2016This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly creamy ecru head, which leaves some seemingly saggy gear chain lace around the glass as it very lazily recedes.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a touch of white saltine crackers, muddled domestic citrus and equally distorted exotic fruitiness, minor hard water flinty notes, and some heady leafy, piney, and gently perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and crackery pale malt, an ephemeral caramel sweetness, still hard to differentiate citrus rind, a sense of tropical fruitiness unrequited, and more bristling leafy, herbal and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly robust in its probing and tingly frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess ducking and weaving around any of those sexy south seas hops who may or may not know any better (sorry?). It finishes off-dry, with the mixed citrus and other berry-forward fruitiness doing well to force the lingering malt to up its lagging game.
Overall, I gotta say, I do love me some Phillips big-boy IPAs - this time they use some antipodean hops in the guise of a holiday-themed brew, which would normally be part of the 'advent' calendar they are no longer making - no biggie. I'd rather just see the new stuff (like this), and not be forced into buying a dozen or so old standbys at a time of year when my own beer, er 'calendar' is certainly over-committed.
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