Big Shine
Great Raft Brewing
- From:
- Great Raft Brewing
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.36 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 15, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 08, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.36/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.36/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
4-pack of 16 fl oz pull-tab cans ran me $13.99 USD plus tax at a beer store in New Orleans, LA.
"Milkshake IPA." 6% ABV.
HOPS Simcoe, Strata, El Dorado, Amarillo
YEAST House Ale
Served cold into a stemless wine glass.
HEAD: ~3-4cm in height. Fluffy white. Soft yet robust, lasting a good ~6-8 minutes.
BODY: Turbid orange. Looks like fruit juice. Clearly unfiltered. A bit dull, lacking vibrance. Filtration would definitely liven it up.
Appears well carbonated. A decent looking IPA.
AROMA: Obvious lactose sugar sweetness. Muted citrus. Tropical fruit hop flavours...coconut, papaya, pineapple.
El Dorado and Strata clearly dominate here. Amarillo (incidentally, my favourite hop varietal) is absent; there's no resinous hop aromatics here. Simcoe's usual oniony/garlicky aroma is absent, but I could see its tropical fruit profile subsuming into the El Dorado/Strata tropical fruit notes.
Suggests a soft easy drinking IPA with a decent but not dazzling hop profile.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Soft, juicy, smooth, silky, wet, refreshing. Well-carbonated. Has a bit more thickness due to the lactose sugar, but it's fine.
Tropical fruit flavours from Strata and El Dorado blend neatly with lactose sugar sweetness, wheat, and 2-row pale malt. Coconut, papaya, vanilla, strawberry (from Strata), some fusel hop off-flavour (again, probably Strata). Mango, I guess.
It's balanced - surprisingly well so for a lactose sugar IPA, which usually run too sweet for my tastes leaving me feeling like the lactose sugar was unnecessary. Here, it works well, complementing the hop flavours.
I do think Amarillo's absence is a tragedy, and I want more from the Simcoe. I don't adore this beer's hop profile, but I do like it in a general sense.
OVERALL: $14/4 pack is laughable, but it's an enjoyable beer with a pleasant hop profile from Great Raft. I can't say I'd buy it again given its appalling pricing ($14 puts it at just a slightly lower price point than Parish's Ghost In The Machine which would be ~$14.65 if offered in this format), and I think it drinks more like a pale ale what with its low 6% ABV, but Great Raft is one of the better breweries in Louisiana by my estimation and I'm glad I got to try this once.
B- (3.36) / WORTHY
Aug 15, 2020"Milkshake IPA." 6% ABV.
HOPS Simcoe, Strata, El Dorado, Amarillo
YEAST House Ale
Served cold into a stemless wine glass.
HEAD: ~3-4cm in height. Fluffy white. Soft yet robust, lasting a good ~6-8 minutes.
BODY: Turbid orange. Looks like fruit juice. Clearly unfiltered. A bit dull, lacking vibrance. Filtration would definitely liven it up.
Appears well carbonated. A decent looking IPA.
AROMA: Obvious lactose sugar sweetness. Muted citrus. Tropical fruit hop flavours...coconut, papaya, pineapple.
El Dorado and Strata clearly dominate here. Amarillo (incidentally, my favourite hop varietal) is absent; there's no resinous hop aromatics here. Simcoe's usual oniony/garlicky aroma is absent, but I could see its tropical fruit profile subsuming into the El Dorado/Strata tropical fruit notes.
Suggests a soft easy drinking IPA with a decent but not dazzling hop profile.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Soft, juicy, smooth, silky, wet, refreshing. Well-carbonated. Has a bit more thickness due to the lactose sugar, but it's fine.
Tropical fruit flavours from Strata and El Dorado blend neatly with lactose sugar sweetness, wheat, and 2-row pale malt. Coconut, papaya, vanilla, strawberry (from Strata), some fusel hop off-flavour (again, probably Strata). Mango, I guess.
It's balanced - surprisingly well so for a lactose sugar IPA, which usually run too sweet for my tastes leaving me feeling like the lactose sugar was unnecessary. Here, it works well, complementing the hop flavours.
I do think Amarillo's absence is a tragedy, and I want more from the Simcoe. I don't adore this beer's hop profile, but I do like it in a general sense.
OVERALL: $14/4 pack is laughable, but it's an enjoyable beer with a pleasant hop profile from Great Raft. I can't say I'd buy it again given its appalling pricing ($14 puts it at just a slightly lower price point than Parish's Ghost In The Machine which would be ~$14.65 if offered in this format), and I think it drinks more like a pale ale what with its low 6% ABV, but Great Raft is one of the better breweries in Louisiana by my estimation and I'm glad I got to try this once.
B- (3.36) / WORTHY
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