Zzzzzzz
Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- From:
- Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 01, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 28, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Nightcap IPA
Looking for a soothing IPA to end the night with? We’ve got just the thing! Our new Nightcap IPA is brewed with Jasmine, Lavender, Turmeric and Chamomile—all the relaxing nighttime ingredients you need to unwind while you put on your PJ’s and perform your elaborate skin care ritual. Sweet dreams! 45 IBU
Looking for a soothing IPA to end the night with? We’ve got just the thing! Our new Nightcap IPA is brewed with Jasmine, Lavender, Turmeric and Chamomile—all the relaxing nighttime ingredients you need to unwind while you put on your PJ’s and perform your elaborate skin care ritual. Sweet dreams! 45 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the brewery; no canning date and served slightly chilled.
Pours clear copper-brown with amber red highlights; gathered atop is an inch of creamy, off white-coloured head that wilts away within three or four minutes. A quarter-inch band of even lace sticks to the glass, with a filmy cap and tight collar remaining on the surface. Flowery, perfume-y, potpourri-adjacent aroma: the lavender sticks out for me, but I also get that spicy hint of turmeric as well as chamomile herbal tea. Light suggestions of caramel, toasted grains and bready malt sweetness are also evident.
Spicy/herbal flavour profile, reminiscent of a tisane. Lightly caramelized sugars and bready malt sweetness at the forefront, with plenty of lavender, too; the turmeric and jasmine are close behind, with herbal chamomile tea, sappy resin bitterness and shades of root beer coming at the finish. Herbal, peppery aftertaste. Medium-light in body, with very low carbonation that contributes to this brew's flat, relatively tepid mouthfeel. I'm not a fan, but it does suit the 'herbal tea' theme, and more assertive carbonation would theoretically work against the 'night cap' niche they're aiming for. On the plus side, this beer did a really good job of decongesting my sinuses.
Final Grade: 3.61, a B grade. Zzzzzzz Nightcap IPA is a misnomer IMO - the IPA aspect is severely underplayed, to the point where I'm not sure it belongs in the name at all. I also don't care for lavender in beer, but the addition of jasmine provides some complementary depth that made for a more tolerable experience. This belongs in the Herbed/Spiced beer category, but then again it's labelled as an IPA, so who am I to argue? I do think it merits a couple of bonus points for trying something different, but without significant recipe tweaks I don't think this is a beer I'd deliberately revisit.... unless my nose is all stuffed up.
May 01, 2023Pours clear copper-brown with amber red highlights; gathered atop is an inch of creamy, off white-coloured head that wilts away within three or four minutes. A quarter-inch band of even lace sticks to the glass, with a filmy cap and tight collar remaining on the surface. Flowery, perfume-y, potpourri-adjacent aroma: the lavender sticks out for me, but I also get that spicy hint of turmeric as well as chamomile herbal tea. Light suggestions of caramel, toasted grains and bready malt sweetness are also evident.
Spicy/herbal flavour profile, reminiscent of a tisane. Lightly caramelized sugars and bready malt sweetness at the forefront, with plenty of lavender, too; the turmeric and jasmine are close behind, with herbal chamomile tea, sappy resin bitterness and shades of root beer coming at the finish. Herbal, peppery aftertaste. Medium-light in body, with very low carbonation that contributes to this brew's flat, relatively tepid mouthfeel. I'm not a fan, but it does suit the 'herbal tea' theme, and more assertive carbonation would theoretically work against the 'night cap' niche they're aiming for. On the plus side, this beer did a really good job of decongesting my sinuses.
Final Grade: 3.61, a B grade. Zzzzzzz Nightcap IPA is a misnomer IMO - the IPA aspect is severely underplayed, to the point where I'm not sure it belongs in the name at all. I also don't care for lavender in beer, but the addition of jasmine provides some complementary depth that made for a more tolerable experience. This belongs in the Herbed/Spiced beer category, but then again it's labelled as an IPA, so who am I to argue? I do think it merits a couple of bonus points for trying something different, but without significant recipe tweaks I don't think this is a beer I'd deliberately revisit.... unless my nose is all stuffed up.
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