Mātakitaki Valley
Garage Project

 

A: Pours a milky murky bright medium golden orange in color with moderate amounts of fine active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate mango yellow + bright orange + pale orange + medium golden yellow + burnt orange + bright yellow colored highlights. The beer has a two finger tall sudsy foamy white head that quickly reduces to a large patch of mottled very thin film covering approximately 75% of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Light to moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate to strong aromas of tropical/passionfruit + tropical/mango + stone fruit/lychee + gooseberry + white grape hops over the top of light to moderate aromas of biscuit + pale + wheat malts with a light to moderate amount of sugary sweetness.

T: Upfront there are just shy of moderate flavors of biscuit + pale + wheat malts with a light to moderate amount of sugary sweetness. That is followed by moderate to strong flavors of tropical/passionfruit + tropical/mango + stone fruit/lychee + gooseberry + white grape hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which fades away fairly quickly leaving light to moderate lingering gooseberry + tropical hop flavors.

M: Medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Moderate amounts of dryness in the finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a pleasantly dry mouthfeel. Enjoyable with lots of gooseberry, vinous, tropical, and stone fruit hop flavors and aromas. Very interesting and definitely a most unique hop profile.