Small Riwaka Everything
Other Half Brewing - Center Street
- From:
- Other Half Brewing - Center Street
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 10.07%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 24, 2021
- Added:
- Sep 05, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
One of New Zealand's greatest but hardest to get hops. Riwaka has big passion fruit and grapefruit character.
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Reviewed by brewme from Massachusetts
3.5/5 rDev -14%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -14%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Picked-up a single can at Craft Beer Cellar in Plymouth for about five dollars. My second brew reviewed from these guys, who are tough to find in New. Strange hop profile, didn't care for this.
Dec 24, 2021
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
3.86/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.86/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From a 16oz can, dated 12/21/20. Served in an IPA glass.
Pours a milkily opaque, pale orange with a finger of soft, soapy lather. Retention is OK, leaving a creamy, sudsy cap and a thin, slippery sheet of lacing.
Delicious aroma, pungent, flowery, pineapple-lime, white cake. It smells like HF Susan which actually makes sense.
Taste does a bit of a 180°, not soft and sweet like the nose but instead sort of soapy and with baking soda-like bitterness. Caramel, perfume and ditch weed, pineapple and grapefruit, jelly, black pepper, baking soda and Sweet’n Low.
Feel is creamy-slick, medium bodied and brightly carbonated.
Overall, a bit of a mixed bag for me. First, it smells very much like my favorite pale ale from Hill Farmstead which obviously sets impossibly high expectations. But beyond that, the flavour’s a bit thin and muddled, and there’s a pervasive soapy character.
Dec 30, 2020Pours a milkily opaque, pale orange with a finger of soft, soapy lather. Retention is OK, leaving a creamy, sudsy cap and a thin, slippery sheet of lacing.
Delicious aroma, pungent, flowery, pineapple-lime, white cake. It smells like HF Susan which actually makes sense.
Taste does a bit of a 180°, not soft and sweet like the nose but instead sort of soapy and with baking soda-like bitterness. Caramel, perfume and ditch weed, pineapple and grapefruit, jelly, black pepper, baking soda and Sweet’n Low.
Feel is creamy-slick, medium bodied and brightly carbonated.
Overall, a bit of a mixed bag for me. First, it smells very much like my favorite pale ale from Hill Farmstead which obviously sets impossibly high expectations. But beyond that, the flavour’s a bit thin and muddled, and there’s a pervasive soapy character.
Reviewed by VoxRationis from New York
4.15/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Decanted for a 16 oz (473 ml) can into an Other Half tulip glass; canned on 09/04/2020, code WAKA.
A: Pours an opaque, dark golden color with a one to two finger, white head, resolving to rim and cap retention and sticky rings of lacing.
S: Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, guava, and pine.
T: Semidry and pithy. Flavors devolve from the nose, at first, but with a very strong caramelization and an increasingly strong corn flavor. Solid bitterness present throughout.
M: Medium bodied with moderate effervescence. Creamy on the palate.
O: Different and very drinkable. Didn't know what to expect with this hop, but was delighted with what I found. Just delicious!
Oct 20, 2020A: Pours an opaque, dark golden color with a one to two finger, white head, resolving to rim and cap retention and sticky rings of lacing.
S: Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, guava, and pine.
T: Semidry and pithy. Flavors devolve from the nose, at first, but with a very strong caramelization and an increasingly strong corn flavor. Solid bitterness present throughout.
M: Medium bodied with moderate effervescence. Creamy on the palate.
O: Different and very drinkable. Didn't know what to expect with this hop, but was delighted with what I found. Just delicious!
Reviewed by SpeedwayJim from New York
3.96/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
3.96/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
16oz. can into a Brooklyn Brewery snifter.
Nose is corn, pineapple, lemon zest, grapefruit, and can sugar. Pretty aromatic. Beer opens rice cake, oatmeal, corn, cornbread and citrus. Strange but not bad. A second sip yields more citrus fruit, soap, and aluminum. I don't remember the last time I've come across this flavor profile. Body is light with ample carbonation. Prickly and foamy on the palate and goes down soft but crisp with an accented finish a clean aftertaste. Very drinkable.
I appreciate how much flavor is in this one given the low ABVs. This is interesting to say the least. Worth trying.
Oct 15, 2020Nose is corn, pineapple, lemon zest, grapefruit, and can sugar. Pretty aromatic. Beer opens rice cake, oatmeal, corn, cornbread and citrus. Strange but not bad. A second sip yields more citrus fruit, soap, and aluminum. I don't remember the last time I've come across this flavor profile. Body is light with ample carbonation. Prickly and foamy on the palate and goes down soft but crisp with an accented finish a clean aftertaste. Very drinkable.
I appreciate how much flavor is in this one given the low ABVs. This is interesting to say the least. Worth trying.
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