Tropical Contact High
Modus Brewing
- From:
- Modus Brewing
- Australia
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 7.56%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 22, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 08, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
4.39/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
That Modus Gadzooks! IPA the other night seriously made me crave hops bad (unfortunately I didn’t have anything in my fridge that could feed my craving so instead I went to bed without). Tonight I have its sister limited release: Tropical Contact High, also a New England IPA (or NEIPA for short). What am I expecting? Well Gadzooks! already was chock full of tropical-flavoured hops so yeah, not sure how they will top that with Tropical Contact High, but I really am eager to find out - I’m like a certain large, primarily nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent that is particularly ardent about wood, and I’m enthusiastic as well, so let’s crack this mother.
Poured from a 500ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Cloudy, not AF, but generous in its cloudiness, Jonquil body with a decent 1.5 centimetre white head on top. So far so good Tropical Contact High... could be cloudier for the style (if NEIPA is now actually considered a style) but it is pretty damn cloudy so I’m not going to hold it against Modus. 8/10.
S: Strangely more grassy and cannabis orientated than Gadzooks! (which came across more tropical in the aroma)... bit of name confusion there Modus? Apart from that there’s a hint of paw paw, mango and passionfruit - but the overall aroma is very green and exceptionally fresh and IMO (as someone who loves sticking their nose into a bag of hop pellets) better than Gadzooks! [btw that was an unintentional exclamation due to the name of Gadzooks!]. 10/10.
T: Bizarrely the flavour is an anticlimax. Wow, I was expecting a hop onslaught, but what I got was an almost restrained grassy/green hop paw paw/mango/passionfruit walk in the park. After Gadzooks! I was expecting a great deal more here. That said this mostly hop (with a touch of dry cracker and pepper) flavoured brew is no slouch either - yes it’s definitely got hops, but not in spades - which is really what you expect at this level. In the respect that the aroma is big, in-yo-face and amazing it reminds me of NZ’s finest hop driven brews - face planting when it comes to flavour. And as much as I like to smell a beer, I like to drink it even more. 8/10.
M: Medium bodied... hell I’m going to copy/paste the rest from the Gadzooks! review: “with hop oils doing their thang, and a medium-dense carbonation”. 9/10.
D: Gadzooks! is definitely the better out of the two, and hopefully it will get added to their core range (I hope!). Tropical Content High was still good (don’t get me wrong) but we’re comparing Gods here. 9/10.
Food match: Something Mexican with salsa verde... perhaps nachos.
Sep 22, 2017Poured from a 500ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Cloudy, not AF, but generous in its cloudiness, Jonquil body with a decent 1.5 centimetre white head on top. So far so good Tropical Contact High... could be cloudier for the style (if NEIPA is now actually considered a style) but it is pretty damn cloudy so I’m not going to hold it against Modus. 8/10.
S: Strangely more grassy and cannabis orientated than Gadzooks! (which came across more tropical in the aroma)... bit of name confusion there Modus? Apart from that there’s a hint of paw paw, mango and passionfruit - but the overall aroma is very green and exceptionally fresh and IMO (as someone who loves sticking their nose into a bag of hop pellets) better than Gadzooks! [btw that was an unintentional exclamation due to the name of Gadzooks!]. 10/10.
T: Bizarrely the flavour is an anticlimax. Wow, I was expecting a hop onslaught, but what I got was an almost restrained grassy/green hop paw paw/mango/passionfruit walk in the park. After Gadzooks! I was expecting a great deal more here. That said this mostly hop (with a touch of dry cracker and pepper) flavoured brew is no slouch either - yes it’s definitely got hops, but not in spades - which is really what you expect at this level. In the respect that the aroma is big, in-yo-face and amazing it reminds me of NZ’s finest hop driven brews - face planting when it comes to flavour. And as much as I like to smell a beer, I like to drink it even more. 8/10.
M: Medium bodied... hell I’m going to copy/paste the rest from the Gadzooks! review: “with hop oils doing their thang, and a medium-dense carbonation”. 9/10.
D: Gadzooks! is definitely the better out of the two, and hopefully it will get added to their core range (I hope!). Tropical Content High was still good (don’t get me wrong) but we’re comparing Gods here. 9/10.
Food match: Something Mexican with salsa verde... perhaps nachos.
Reviewed by heygeebee from Australia
3.7/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.7/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
All aboard! All aboard! Plenty of room on the Hype Train - leaving a station right near you very soon. Do I get NEIPAs or not is irrelevant, but Modus are selling a LOT of this and it's expensive.
Moderate smell, lemons as taste but not a flavour bomb by any means. Not too chewy either.
It's also very drinkable, but will the fad last?
All aboard! All aboard!
Sep 16, 2017Moderate smell, lemons as taste but not a flavour bomb by any means. Not too chewy either.
It's also very drinkable, but will the fad last?
All aboard! All aboard!
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