Imperial Red IPA
Lysefjorden Mikrobryggeri
- From:
- Lysefjorden Mikrobryggeri
- Norway
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.95 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 19, 2017
- Added:
- May 10, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ipahophead from Colorado
2.95/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.95/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Served from 0.5l bottle. Batch #229 with expiration date of 06.09.19 4.7% ABV. "Freshly imported" from Norwegian friend and chilled in fridge three days before serving.
Upon opening, bottle started spewing huge foam mixed with a few ounces of beer. Strike 1. Poured hugely cloudy (strike 2) and with giant, tan head taking up 30% of the glass. Retention of head mild; not creamy but large bubbles in lace. Initial nose was that of hops (grass and some vinegar notes.)
Taste was rather unpleasant. Metallic and butterscotch. Certainly a IPA bitter taste yet with with odd, large raisin / vegetable finish. Wet cardboard. Very undesirable sour/phenolic aftertaste. Strike 3 for me.
Given other positive reviews of this beer elsewhere, I assume this batch was infected or suffered from poor handling.
I consumed a total of 1/4 of the beer and dumped the rest. I've only ever had to do this a few times with commercial brew so that says something is very wrong here.
Jan 19, 2017Upon opening, bottle started spewing huge foam mixed with a few ounces of beer. Strike 1. Poured hugely cloudy (strike 2) and with giant, tan head taking up 30% of the glass. Retention of head mild; not creamy but large bubbles in lace. Initial nose was that of hops (grass and some vinegar notes.)
Taste was rather unpleasant. Metallic and butterscotch. Certainly a IPA bitter taste yet with with odd, large raisin / vegetable finish. Wet cardboard. Very undesirable sour/phenolic aftertaste. Strike 3 for me.
Given other positive reviews of this beer elsewhere, I assume this batch was infected or suffered from poor handling.
I consumed a total of 1/4 of the beer and dumped the rest. I've only ever had to do this a few times with commercial brew so that says something is very wrong here.
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