11|02 Session IPA (Motueka & Centennial)
Brew By Numbers
- From:
- Brew By Numbers
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 5.97%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 08, 2018
- Added:
- May 19, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.79/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Shared 330 ml bottle at local tasting. Hazy golden colour, moderate white head. Interesting aroma of tropical fruits, esp. lychee and rambutan, also notes of hay. Medium dry and refreshing flavour, decent hops throughout, but hardly an IPA by any stretch of the mind.
Jul 08, 2018
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
4.1/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.1/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Pours a champagne colour, really quite pale with huge cloud throughout. Large webbed head of cream-coloured bubbles. Looks overly sedimenty for the style but interesting and full of character.
Smells lovely and plump. Bags of citrus, giving off mandarin, lemon, orange and a fair whack of pine resin. Really it's plump, just fresh and fruity and almost wholesome-smelling.
Taste is nice as well, great IPA character with lots of mandarin and orange upfront for a sweet, fresh fruit character before descending into a more grounded grapefruit bitterness. Notes of resinous bitterness as well as some wood notes, touch of white pepper and sweet spice as well. Great drinkin'.
Goes down quite nicely, fair body to it, not too heavy.
Very intriguing twist on a hop bomb. Interesting spice character; not sure if intentional now, knowing what it is (served blind) but if not, just a very intriguing and character-filled IPA.
Jul 15, 2014Smells lovely and plump. Bags of citrus, giving off mandarin, lemon, orange and a fair whack of pine resin. Really it's plump, just fresh and fruity and almost wholesome-smelling.
Taste is nice as well, great IPA character with lots of mandarin and orange upfront for a sweet, fresh fruit character before descending into a more grounded grapefruit bitterness. Notes of resinous bitterness as well as some wood notes, touch of white pepper and sweet spice as well. Great drinkin'.
Goes down quite nicely, fair body to it, not too heavy.
Very intriguing twist on a hop bomb. Interesting spice character; not sure if intentional now, knowing what it is (served blind) but if not, just a very intriguing and character-filled IPA.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.51/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.51/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
330ml brown bottle purchased from the brewery in Bermondsey when doing the mile. I brought this bottle back to Sydney, Australia where I shared it with Sam & Rich.
Pours a very hazy crushed lemon colour, with a fine, slightly frothy head of white that doesn't persist all that well. Minimal patchy lace. Decent weight to the body, and some nice fine carbonation. Looks pretty decent.
Nose is pleasant: definite citrus characters giving a fragrant, almost acidic tone to the aroma. Slight husky nuttiness comes through as well, more of a savoury grainy malt character than any real sweetness. Hops are the most dominant part though, and they're done fairly well.
Taste is very light, but pleasant enough in its way. Very thin body delivers the "session" quality, while the malt is definitely very savoury, providing an almost umami-like biscuit character underneath everything. Slight weak fragrant hoppiness sits on the back and makes it slightly bitey. Not bad.
Feel is very light. It's not unexpected, but it doesn't help a lot overall.
It's decent enough. Compared to some of BBNo's other offerings it's decidedly subpar, but that's probably a hard comparison. This probably just underlines why Session IPA is a dubious style at best.
May 19, 2014Pours a very hazy crushed lemon colour, with a fine, slightly frothy head of white that doesn't persist all that well. Minimal patchy lace. Decent weight to the body, and some nice fine carbonation. Looks pretty decent.
Nose is pleasant: definite citrus characters giving a fragrant, almost acidic tone to the aroma. Slight husky nuttiness comes through as well, more of a savoury grainy malt character than any real sweetness. Hops are the most dominant part though, and they're done fairly well.
Taste is very light, but pleasant enough in its way. Very thin body delivers the "session" quality, while the malt is definitely very savoury, providing an almost umami-like biscuit character underneath everything. Slight weak fragrant hoppiness sits on the back and makes it slightly bitey. Not bad.
Feel is very light. It's not unexpected, but it doesn't help a lot overall.
It's decent enough. Compared to some of BBNo's other offerings it's decidedly subpar, but that's probably a hard comparison. This probably just underlines why Session IPA is a dubious style at best.
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