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Modern Times Beer

Bottle from Boise Coop. Rich golden color, sparse head. Aroma is musty, funky and dank. Taste brings some citrus quickness to the mix, Making this dank juice, or juicy dank. Ok, but kind of weird at the same time.

 

Hazy platinum; lemon, pineapple, + resin; big bright pineapple, candied grapefruit peel, slight passionfruit, gentle pine; super smooth.

4 4 4.5 4.25 4

Simcoe, Mosaic, Nugget, Chinook

Huge pineapple you don’t see coming. Oats + wheat do their thing, with hard candy hop notes. Low IBUs, relatively - fruity for San Diego. Superior.

22oz bottle - a so-called 'new-wave IPA'. Which wave? There's a always a new one coming along.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent defrosting back windshield pattern lace around the glass as things slowly progress.

It smells of mildly dank pine resin, juicy orange, red grapefruit, and some muddled tropical fruitiness, bready and crackery cereal malt, and further leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some mixed and matched domestic citrus and exotic fruity notes, a damp minerality, and more understated earthy, musty, and piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite meek in its barely-there frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really causing any sort of concern at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the malt and blended frooty esters lingering with equal amounts of panache.

Overall - this one kind of goes overboard with the elimination of the bitterness quotient. It's like there's no edge here, which you pretty much expect in an American IPA. A rather boring offering, to be honest, and not worth the elevated US import price tag.

 

 

 

 

Picked up a bomber from TW Arrowhead on 3-1-18 for $7.99. No bottling date visible but received at TW 2-19-18 but being a February release this was acquired fresh.

Beer poured golden orange with a nice white head that is leaving some lacing behind.

Nose is very nice, very fresh citrus that is quite pungent.

Taste is fresh grapefruit and orange with a touch of mango balanced nicely by a moderate kiss of rind.

Mouthfeel is light bodied and very refreshing - nice!

Overall another solid IPA from MTB!

 

 

Type: 22-oz. bottle
Glass: Clear 16-oz. Bruges beer glass
From: Trader Joe’s in La Mesa, Calif.
Price: $6.99
Purchased: Feb. 9, 2018
Consumed: Feb. 10, 2018
Reviewed as: American IPA
Misc.: Bottled on Jan. 30, 2018

First time I saw this in a store and picked it up along with another Stone bomber and a mixed 6-pack. Looked like an excellent beer from an excellent brewery. Mentioned hops were Simcoe, Mosaic, Nugget and Chinook with malts of 2 Row, Oats, Raw Wheat and Crystal 40. Description online read, “This IPA will boast immoderate amounts of Mosaic, Chinook, Simcoe, and Nugget hops, combined with a crisp, meticulously restrained malt bill and fermented with ale yeast of the Chico persuasion. From this mighty union shall arise an enormously crushable beer with a big, fruity nose and the kind of brilliant, clean finish that will leave no doubt as to whether or not you have made the correct beverage decision.” Mosaic and Simcoe are my two favorite hops, and Chinook and Nugget aren’t too bad either.

Poured a gold semi-clear color with 1-to-2 fingers of frothy off-white head. Some slow moving bubbles coming up along the sides of the glass. Outstanding spotty lacing. Very good retention. (Sight - 4.00)

Smelled dry hops from the get-go. Specifically papaya, mango, spoiled fruit, nectarine, apricot, Simcoe, Mosaic, floral and rose blossom. (Smell - 4.00)

Taste followed the nose for the most part. The hops were more noticeable than the nose. Still dry-hopped. Got spicy Simcoe, Mosaic, papaya, passion fruit, mixed berry, nectarine and peach. Tastes stronger than 6.7 pct. (Taste - 4.25)

Medium body. Oily-to-creamy texture. Average carbonation. Long finish. (Feel - 4.25)

Really dug this beer. If this was hazy, the jokers would’ve given this a 4.50. (Overall - 4.25)

4.18 | 93 | A-

 

 

 

 

Clear golden yellow brew, a welcome change after all the murky IPAs. This one is clean-cut and even tastes golden, a bright lemony taste with a resiny underside. Malty and just sweet enough to go with the mild acidic tang. The aroma is like a cloud of lime oils and mango with a waft of gardenia.

Fruity taste but citrusy. It just skips the grapefruit entirely for a mellow tone. Tremendously drinkable, with the hoppy aromatics and the touch of bitterness to remind you at the finish that it's a "New Wave IPA." From the 22 oz bottle purchased at Barons Market on West Point Loma.

Like Booming Rollers, Attack Frequency, Folding Ships, and Geodesic, these highly aromatic but restrained hoppy brews are what makes Modern Times ahead of its time.

The beer pours out a slightly hazy medium golden color, with 2 fingers of off white head-------------- the aromas are of orange marmalade, pine and dank weed----------------- the flavors are of sweet citrus up front followed by a biscuit like malt, pine, orange pith and grapefruit, the beer has a medium to full mouthfeel with almost no bitterness at all--------------- overall this beer was delicious, it drinks like a new England ipa with no bitterness and a super soft mouthfeel but has all the dank and citrus flavors of a old school west coast ipa, good job modern times

 

Clear yellow gold pour with a foamy white head. Tropical fruit and citrus aroma. Mildly bitter taste with mango, passion fruit, floral and light earthy flavors. Light bodied and mildly carbonated.