Vindabrew Cardamom IPA
Drygate Brewery
- From:
- Drygate Brewery
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English IPA
- ABV:
- 6.1%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.2 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 08, 2015
- Added:
- Sep 08, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Brief impressions on account of a subpar review environment. Reviewed live at the Bow Bar in Edinburgh.
Head is average, with an off white colour and 2 minute retention. Body is an oddly hazy seemingly unfiltered copper mango of avrrage vibrance.
Aroma boasts fresh notes of bright ripe tropical fruit - mango, apricot, citrusy rind, peach, even guava. Cardamom? Nah, and no near notes like cinnamon either. Pale malts.
Taste fulfills all the promises of the aroma, though the rindy bitterness on the climax will turn some drinkers. Still, I find it balanced. Not sweet or cloying; they avoided a caramalt presence rightly. Good depth of flavour. There is room for further intricacy, and the hop profile isnt gestalt, but it's tasty and approachable. I don't care for the lingering hop bitterness in the aftertaste.
Mouthfeel is serviceable, in spite of blatant overcarbonation. Crisp, smooth, wet, biting, unrefreshing. Medium to full bodied, with sufficient weight and heft on the palate.
Drinkable and enjoyable, if a bit restrained in terms of ABV for an ostensible IPA. Still, the winning fresh fruity hop notes are enough to make it more than worthwhile. Not sure what went wrong with the intended cardamom...
C+
Sep 08, 2015Head is average, with an off white colour and 2 minute retention. Body is an oddly hazy seemingly unfiltered copper mango of avrrage vibrance.
Aroma boasts fresh notes of bright ripe tropical fruit - mango, apricot, citrusy rind, peach, even guava. Cardamom? Nah, and no near notes like cinnamon either. Pale malts.
Taste fulfills all the promises of the aroma, though the rindy bitterness on the climax will turn some drinkers. Still, I find it balanced. Not sweet or cloying; they avoided a caramalt presence rightly. Good depth of flavour. There is room for further intricacy, and the hop profile isnt gestalt, but it's tasty and approachable. I don't care for the lingering hop bitterness in the aftertaste.
Mouthfeel is serviceable, in spite of blatant overcarbonation. Crisp, smooth, wet, biting, unrefreshing. Medium to full bodied, with sufficient weight and heft on the palate.
Drinkable and enjoyable, if a bit restrained in terms of ABV for an ostensible IPA. Still, the winning fresh fruity hop notes are enough to make it more than worthwhile. Not sure what went wrong with the intended cardamom...
C+
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