Jah Mon
Rivertowne Brewing
- From:
- Rivertowne Brewing
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 10.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 12
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 01, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 21, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 24
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by sulldaddy from Connecticut
3.65/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Sampling a cellar temp can poured into a snifter. The can has been in my cellar for about 4 months from purchase. As I pop the top, foam starts rapidly fizzing out of the opening and gushes a bit onto my table and the floor. This hurts my appearance score.
Finally getting the beer poured I get a rocky, large fluffy bone white head of 5 cm that overtops my glass. THe beer is a fairly clear orange color with not a lot of sediment or other haze or cloudiness. My kitchen does smell like fresh hops with lots of grassy notes and some pine sap filling the room after the spillage. Once the beer settles, leaving windowpane lattice on my glass and one large fluffy island in the center, I can dive into the beer.
The aroma is more mild than I thought after the gusher but I get pine sap and grass notes mixing with a little grapefruit rind mixed in for good measure.
The first sip reveals a light body with fine and gently rolling carbonation. Flavor is just a little grainy malt and then pine sap and finishes with some pithy grapefruit rind bitterness. The finish also dries out my palate and the bitterness lingers.
The beer drinks pretty easy and doesnt appear flawed or infected or have any problems that would have caused the gusher at the onset of this sampling. Its a decent session IPA, hope your can doesnt gush like mine did.
Nov 26, 2017Finally getting the beer poured I get a rocky, large fluffy bone white head of 5 cm that overtops my glass. THe beer is a fairly clear orange color with not a lot of sediment or other haze or cloudiness. My kitchen does smell like fresh hops with lots of grassy notes and some pine sap filling the room after the spillage. Once the beer settles, leaving windowpane lattice on my glass and one large fluffy island in the center, I can dive into the beer.
The aroma is more mild than I thought after the gusher but I get pine sap and grass notes mixing with a little grapefruit rind mixed in for good measure.
The first sip reveals a light body with fine and gently rolling carbonation. Flavor is just a little grainy malt and then pine sap and finishes with some pithy grapefruit rind bitterness. The finish also dries out my palate and the bitterness lingers.
The beer drinks pretty easy and doesnt appear flawed or infected or have any problems that would have caused the gusher at the onset of this sampling. Its a decent session IPA, hope your can doesnt gush like mine did.
Reviewed by Shebeckastan from Pennsylvania
4.46/5 rDev +17.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +17.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Big hip up front then giving way to citrus and melon. Short bitter finish. Not that big ipa feel had me looking for more hop but because of the sessionability i understand why.
Nov 10, 2017
Reviewed by The_Kriek_Freak from Greenland
3.52/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
It pours a rather dark yet clear orange with a finger of just under 2 fingers. The aroma is of piney hops with very little dankness but this could be due to not being very fresh. Fairly intense bitterness for a session IPA. Medium body.
Sep 29, 2017
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.79/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Rivertowne Brewing "Jah Mon Session IPA"
12 fl. oz. can, production coded but without freshness dating
$2 @ Weis Market, Conshohocken, PA
Notes via stream of consciousness: Nice looking glass of beer! It's a hazy golden with plenty of fine bubbles rising up, adding to and buoying a finger-thick bright white head. The head retention is just amazing, and there's some thin but nice lacing where the head has already dropped. The aroma is limited to light citrus (mainly orange), pine, and lightly toasty grainy malt, and now I'm wondering whether or not this is an old beer. Of course without freshness dating I have no way of knowing. Looking at the code on the bottom of the can the best guess I have is a possible Julian date of 177 which would be June 26th, not that old. Moving forward, the hops in the flavor aren't that bright either but it doesn't seem old. At the very least I'm not finding oxidation. It's as the aroma suggests with a grainy malt base, and pine and citrus (which might be a little fuller, perhaps grapefruit or lemon, but basically remains orange or tangerine). Thankfully the bitterness isn't overdone and it's a pretty decent beer as it is, basically an American pale ale. Perhaps a fresher version would have revealed the "dank" hops that the Jamaican-styled label seems to be suggesting but I'm not finding it here.
Aug 11, 201712 fl. oz. can, production coded but without freshness dating
$2 @ Weis Market, Conshohocken, PA
Notes via stream of consciousness: Nice looking glass of beer! It's a hazy golden with plenty of fine bubbles rising up, adding to and buoying a finger-thick bright white head. The head retention is just amazing, and there's some thin but nice lacing where the head has already dropped. The aroma is limited to light citrus (mainly orange), pine, and lightly toasty grainy malt, and now I'm wondering whether or not this is an old beer. Of course without freshness dating I have no way of knowing. Looking at the code on the bottom of the can the best guess I have is a possible Julian date of 177 which would be June 26th, not that old. Moving forward, the hops in the flavor aren't that bright either but it doesn't seem old. At the very least I'm not finding oxidation. It's as the aroma suggests with a grainy malt base, and pine and citrus (which might be a little fuller, perhaps grapefruit or lemon, but basically remains orange or tangerine). Thankfully the bitterness isn't overdone and it's a pretty decent beer as it is, basically an American pale ale. Perhaps a fresher version would have revealed the "dank" hops that the Jamaican-styled label seems to be suggesting but I'm not finding it here.
Reviewed by Vetbidder from Pennsylvania
3.73/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Somewhat hazy and medium straw colored with a tall off white head from a fairly aggressive pour. Sweet pineapple, citrus, slight pine and slight malt from the nose of this brew in that order. The taste starts out slightly sweet and fruity but moves to pine and a bready malt with slight bitterness to the finish. It's a slight bit thin with somewhat less carbonation. Overall this is pretty decent.
Jul 22, 2017
Reviewed by Blackop555 from Michigan
4.06/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours hazy, straw color. Foamy, tall, white head fades slowly to a rocky head with good lacing.
Smells doughy malts, pine and citrus.
Tastes light Tropical and citrus peel and bready malt. Finish is dry with a citrus peel linger with light fruit hints. Medium body and creamy medium carbonation.
Jun 15, 2017Smells doughy malts, pine and citrus.
Tastes light Tropical and citrus peel and bready malt. Finish is dry with a citrus peel linger with light fruit hints. Medium body and creamy medium carbonation.
Reviewed by Urk1127 from New Jersey
3.77/5 rDev -1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.5
3.77/5 rDev -1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.5
Hazy dirty yellow. Half inch head
Sharp pine. Lemon and lemon peel. Guava type smell
Sharp pine, orange peel, mango.
Very fluffy creamy head. Thin body but it's OK. Not necessarily hop water.
Pretty good. I'd drink multiple.
Feb 20, 2017Sharp pine. Lemon and lemon peel. Guava type smell
Sharp pine, orange peel, mango.
Very fluffy creamy head. Thin body but it's OK. Not necessarily hop water.
Pretty good. I'd drink multiple.
Reviewed by kevINSIGHT from Pennsylvania
3.68/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours a cloudy, hazy straw color with a great citrus and pine aroma. Unfortunately the taste false short of the aroma as many session IPA's do. A nice effervescent tingle on the tongue, but fairly plain taste with some citrus notes. I'm glad I drank it from a large glass so I could enjoy lots of aroma, because the taste alone wouldn't do it for me.
Sep 01, 2016
Reviewed by SomethingClever from Ohio
4.17/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.17/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
On tap into nonic pint
A: very light body big white bubbly head. The body is a very light yellow color with great clarity.
S: pineapple, grapefruit, mango, peach, a little candied light crackery malts
T: the taste lightly follows the nose. You have light bits of fruit, a lot more of that cracker malts taste. Nice crisp fruity pineapple.
M: very light clean tasting and crisp makes the beer feel lighter.
O: this is a pretty good session ale, much better than I had expected going in to it. It's clean, light, has an amazing nose and a decent hop bite.
Aug 19, 2016A: very light body big white bubbly head. The body is a very light yellow color with great clarity.
S: pineapple, grapefruit, mango, peach, a little candied light crackery malts
T: the taste lightly follows the nose. You have light bits of fruit, a lot more of that cracker malts taste. Nice crisp fruity pineapple.
M: very light clean tasting and crisp makes the beer feel lighter.
O: this is a pretty good session ale, much better than I had expected going in to it. It's clean, light, has an amazing nose and a decent hop bite.
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