Mounds of Green
Faction Brewing
- From:
- Faction Brewing
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10.1%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 5.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 04, 2022
- Added:
- Feb 26, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by heymikew from California
4.18/5 rDev +5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
The 2022 edition definitely deserves the bronze medal won at The Bistro's Triple IPA fest on 2/12/22
Mar 04, 2022
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.78/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Had this at the 20th annual DIPA festival on February 8, 2020. This is also a collaboration brew with Slice. 1st review of the beer on BA.
Pours a nice light amber/bronze like color with 1/2" white head and good clarity going for it. 4 different hops going for it, Mosaic and Citra are pretty ubiquitous these days for aroma, Simcoe for bittering, but Apollo? Not sure what that was bringing to the table, presumably bittering. Not a big fan of using a new infrequently used hop and putting it in with three other varieties, how am I supposed to differentiate what that one is doing? Anyways, the nose went with bit of the usual Mosaic/Citra combo of tropical and sweeter variety citrus fruit.
Taste was definitely bouyed by a significant, but welcoming bitterness from the Simcoe and Apollo. Really pushed the crisp snap to the beer making it continuously improve as sessioning went on. Malt body was out of the way and refreshing, not a sludge heft weight caramel thing. I would definitely recommend checking this out, I want to try it again because I had it at the end of the day and it was still good.
EDIT: Had it again in 2022 at the festival, didn't score as high: 3.5/3.5/3.5/3.75/3.5; the prior score was 3.75/3.75/4/4.25/4 = 3.95; gonna adjust to average them.
Feb 26, 2020Pours a nice light amber/bronze like color with 1/2" white head and good clarity going for it. 4 different hops going for it, Mosaic and Citra are pretty ubiquitous these days for aroma, Simcoe for bittering, but Apollo? Not sure what that was bringing to the table, presumably bittering. Not a big fan of using a new infrequently used hop and putting it in with three other varieties, how am I supposed to differentiate what that one is doing? Anyways, the nose went with bit of the usual Mosaic/Citra combo of tropical and sweeter variety citrus fruit.
Taste was definitely bouyed by a significant, but welcoming bitterness from the Simcoe and Apollo. Really pushed the crisp snap to the beer making it continuously improve as sessioning went on. Malt body was out of the way and refreshing, not a sludge heft weight caramel thing. I would definitely recommend checking this out, I want to try it again because I had it at the end of the day and it was still good.
EDIT: Had it again in 2022 at the festival, didn't score as high: 3.5/3.5/3.5/3.75/3.5; the prior score was 3.75/3.75/4/4.25/4 = 3.95; gonna adjust to average them.
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