Gadzooks!
Modus Brewing
- From:
- Modus Brewing
- Australia
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.4 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 21, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 08, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
4.4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.4/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Looks like Modus have another hype-train heading towards us - this time it’s 2 New England style IPAs (NEIPAs) in: Gadzooks! and Tropical Contact High. I wasn’t the hugest fan of their last one: Black Lab Milk Stout, it was alright, but really where Modus shine is with dumping a truckload of hops into their brews and Milk Stouts are not notoriously hoppy (or hoppy at all) so really wasn’t expecting a great deal from that. Why Modus decided to release 2 NEIPAs at the same time is anyone’s guess, but I - your intrepid beer explorer - am about to risk my liver to find out which is the better brew: Gadzooks! or Tropical Contact High, who will win the crown of ‘Modus’s best NEIPA’?
Poured from a 500ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Follows one of the number 1 rules in the NEIPA handbook: “Be cloudy AF”, check Gadzooks! Extremely low attenuated, almost opaque, orange sunrise coloured body with a thin white head that leaves a minimal amount of sticky lace on the side of the glass... look I’m a bit biased being a lover of cloudy beers. 9/10.
S: Pineapple, paw paw, jack fruit and lychee upfront and in yo grill (in a good way). There’s a grassy note in there as well. Yet again you can smell that Modus have dumped loads of hops into this - it’s crammed with hop character. There’s almost no way of picking up malt aroma amongst this cacophony of hops - but I care not in the slightest - I came for hops, and hops Modus have provided [in hops we trust]. 9/10.
T: Grassy and green upfront leading into those tropical characters (pineapple, paw paw, jack fruit, lychee) then it gets a touch earthy, follows through to light biscuit malt base and finishes with a light(ish) bitterness and a herbal kiss. This is one raw-green hop brew - fresh hops all over the shop. Not as sweet as other Aussie NEIPAs I’ve tried lately (3 Ravens Juicy is a bit sweeter), but the focus on hop character in this one is to be commended - it’s hoptastic! [wow, that sounded less cheesy in my head, sorry]. 9/10.
M: Medium bodied with hop oils doing their thang, and a medium-dense carbonation. 9/10.
D: Look it’s hard to go past Modus Operandi Gadzooks! As far decent Aussie NEIPAs go this is a Rolls Royce - expensive (oh so expensive!) but refined, beautiful, and full of hops (if you buy your Rolls Royces from millionaire hop farmers. Which I do). Tasty AF, and I’m looking forward to Tropical Contact High. 8/10.
Food match: Green papaya salad, or Vietnamese noodle salad (Bún Bò Xào).
Sep 21, 2017Poured from a 500ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Follows one of the number 1 rules in the NEIPA handbook: “Be cloudy AF”, check Gadzooks! Extremely low attenuated, almost opaque, orange sunrise coloured body with a thin white head that leaves a minimal amount of sticky lace on the side of the glass... look I’m a bit biased being a lover of cloudy beers. 9/10.
S: Pineapple, paw paw, jack fruit and lychee upfront and in yo grill (in a good way). There’s a grassy note in there as well. Yet again you can smell that Modus have dumped loads of hops into this - it’s crammed with hop character. There’s almost no way of picking up malt aroma amongst this cacophony of hops - but I care not in the slightest - I came for hops, and hops Modus have provided [in hops we trust]. 9/10.
T: Grassy and green upfront leading into those tropical characters (pineapple, paw paw, jack fruit, lychee) then it gets a touch earthy, follows through to light biscuit malt base and finishes with a light(ish) bitterness and a herbal kiss. This is one raw-green hop brew - fresh hops all over the shop. Not as sweet as other Aussie NEIPAs I’ve tried lately (3 Ravens Juicy is a bit sweeter), but the focus on hop character in this one is to be commended - it’s hoptastic! [wow, that sounded less cheesy in my head, sorry]. 9/10.
M: Medium bodied with hop oils doing their thang, and a medium-dense carbonation. 9/10.
D: Look it’s hard to go past Modus Operandi Gadzooks! As far decent Aussie NEIPAs go this is a Rolls Royce - expensive (oh so expensive!) but refined, beautiful, and full of hops (if you buy your Rolls Royces from millionaire hop farmers. Which I do). Tasty AF, and I’m looking forward to Tropical Contact High. 8/10.
Food match: Green papaya salad, or Vietnamese noodle salad (Bún Bò Xào).
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