Cluster F@ck
4 Hearts Brewing
- From:
- 4 Hearts Brewing
- Australia
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 1.81 | pDev: 4.42%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 29, 2013
- Added:
- Jul 05, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by lacqueredmouse:
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
1.73/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
1.73/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
This is called a "Mild IPA", and perhaps rather misguidedly is modelled after Australia's cheapest, nastiest midstrength beer XXXX Gold. Well, each to his own, I guess—this supposedly at least ups the classic Cluster character and gives it the "craft beer treatment". Tried on-tap at the GABS festival in Melbourne.
Pours a deep golden colour, rather clear with a very light-weight body: not unexpected. Head if a full frothy ring of pure white fed by streaming light carbonation. It's not exciting, but it looks pretty decent.
Nose achieves what it sets out to do: but that's no good thing. Yeasty and thin, with no body—excessively mild and almost no distinguishable hop presence beyond a certain leafy tone to the grain husk water. Um, no...
Light and empty in the entry, with a faint sweet grain character... And that about all it gets to. It stays weak and bland, with just occasional swellings of yeast or seltzer water. Nothing on the aftertaste: weak, watery and awful.
Feel is extremely light with a yeasty cloy.
Overall, I was shocked at how bad this is when I tried it (and it was only later that I discovered it was somewhat inspired by XXXX), and even looking back on it now there was nothing redeeming about it. It was a very poorly thought out experiment, in my view.
Jul 05, 2013Pours a deep golden colour, rather clear with a very light-weight body: not unexpected. Head if a full frothy ring of pure white fed by streaming light carbonation. It's not exciting, but it looks pretty decent.
Nose achieves what it sets out to do: but that's no good thing. Yeasty and thin, with no body—excessively mild and almost no distinguishable hop presence beyond a certain leafy tone to the grain husk water. Um, no...
Light and empty in the entry, with a faint sweet grain character... And that about all it gets to. It stays weak and bland, with just occasional swellings of yeast or seltzer water. Nothing on the aftertaste: weak, watery and awful.
Feel is extremely light with a yeasty cloy.
Overall, I was shocked at how bad this is when I tried it (and it was only later that I discovered it was somewhat inspired by XXXX), and even looking back on it now there was nothing redeeming about it. It was a very poorly thought out experiment, in my view.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
1.89/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2
1.89/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2
Pours a gold colour, slightly cloudy. Head is white, large webbed bubbles, decent thickness. Looks OK.
Smells grainy, buttery with a bit of Pride of Ringwood hop note. Woody, slightly cardboardy but pretty blah. Could definitely use more edge.
Taste is grainy, with cereal notes, touch of bread and a big yeasty note. Grainy, not IPA enough at all. Weird base and just bland, bordering on unpleasant.
Decent mouthfeel, OK body with a touch of carbonation.
Not really IPA at all and just unpleasant flavours. Sorry, this doesn't really do it for me at all.
Nov 29, 2013Smells grainy, buttery with a bit of Pride of Ringwood hop note. Woody, slightly cardboardy but pretty blah. Could definitely use more edge.
Taste is grainy, with cereal notes, touch of bread and a big yeasty note. Grainy, not IPA enough at all. Weird base and just bland, bordering on unpleasant.
Decent mouthfeel, OK body with a touch of carbonation.
Not really IPA at all and just unpleasant flavours. Sorry, this doesn't really do it for me at all.
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