Reefstorm
Three Magnets Brewing

Cloudy, golden orange. Billowing white head. Solid retention and lacing. Aroma is light fruit and spice. Herbal mixed with peach and mango. Flavor follows suit, with some grapefruit and tangerine as well. A bit watery in the finish. Not a bad overall, easy to drink & decent taste.

Yet another review from the Oregon August 2017 camping trip with the family and elrogish. Still have this sticker on the wheelie cooler.

Pours a dark gold/light amber color, 1/2" white head. Its a different hop bill, not necessarily the most aromatic, you rarely see Ella, Southern Cross or Enigma, Motueka I'm a little more familiar with, but none of them really seem to be aroma hops. A little bit of a grapefruit and perhaps a stone fruit de minimus feel to it.

Taste is good, the bittering hop usage worked here well, seemed to be equal parts Cascade and Simcoe like hops, a drier grapefruit lemon forest if you will from the Southern Hemisphere. And right there, it makes the beer a success, it tastes good and has a real unique hop profile. Only complaint, I wish they wouldn't throw multiple rarely used hops together, its easier to get a truer sense of what each hop brings when you have some single hopped beers first, or at least one unique one at a time (let's say Ella) alongside the more popular Motueka for example.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a very hazy orange pineapple juice amber with a fine one finger head with great retention and lacing. Aroma of pale malt, citrus and dank hops, muddled mixed fruit, orange. Flavor is neutral malt, overripe tropical and orange juice, an odd concentrated lemon note, quickly developing hop oil bitterness with mixed fruit and citrus rind, finishing hoppy with yuzu and lemon rind. Medium bodied with light creaminess. One of the more odd entries into the hazy fruit IPA world. The fruit flavors lean citrus, but are strange and exotic with hints of tropical fruit and dried candied tropical fruit. The finishing hop bitterness is slightly astringent. The first taste was disconcerting, but there are some interesting fruit ester flavors that invite further drinking. These Southern Hemisphere hops are quite interesting and a big change of pace from our domestic hops.