Hopped & Confused Session Ale
Mill Street Brew Pub

Hopped & Confused Session AleHopped & Confused Session Ale
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From:
Mill Street Brew Pub
 
Ontario, Canada
Style:
American IPA
ABV:
4.7%
Score:
81
Avg:
3.47 | pDev: 14.7%
Reviews:
13
Ratings:
38
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 29, 2022
Added:
Mar 22, 2018
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  7
Tasting Notes: A burst of floral, tropical fruit, and citrus hop aromas leads into a smooth palate, with paradoxically low bitterness and dry finish.

Appearance: Straw coloured and hazy with bright white head

Aroma: Very intensely aromatic with fruity and floral hop notes and fresh fruit aromas

Body: Light

Serving Suggestions: Creamy cow’s milk cheese or medium hard cow’s milk cheese, white fish and lobster, Thai curries, fish tacos, Mexican

20 IBU
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Reviewed by kevofficiel from Canada (QC)

2.98/5  rDev -14.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
Mill Street hopped and Confused vol 3. Bought a 4 pack for 12,99$

Look: Hazy yellow colour. Nice white lacing

Smell: floral, sweet, citrus, orange peel

Taste: grapefruit, citrus, herbal. Some pine notes but very light

Feel: Lighr to medium body. Light to medium carbonation. Easy drinking. The bitterness is very light mode a session IPA. Easy drinking. One of the good session

So overall would I recommend it ? sure

Would I buy it again ? No, I have a bit problem with Mill Street. It is not my favorite brewing compagnie. There is a taste that I do not like.
Jan 29, 2022
 
Rated: 3.75 by rare_bird from Michigan

Mar 02, 2020
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Reviewed by CAMRAhardliner from Canada (ON)

3.15/5  rDev -9.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pours murky light brown with a compact, long lasting head. Light citrusy, grapefruit hops and sweet fruity notes in the aroma. The taste is moderately hoppy with citrus, herbal, pine notes. Malts are probably more prominent than the hops with a noticeable sweetness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with creamy, light carbonation. Light bitterness and lingering sweetness in the finish.

Apparently this beer undergoes 'lager aging' so maybe a Kolsch type beer? Anyways, it's a bit too sweet (attenuation issue?) and there could be more hop character. I won't seek out again.
Feb 13, 2020
 
Rated: 3.91 by bikko from Canada (ON)

Jan 26, 2020
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Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts

3.54/5  rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Can code but no date, picked up at the brewery yesterday
Pours a medium foamy fluffy 1/2 finger head that fades slowly, nice retention, nice soapy lacing, very hazy but not too cloudy golden honey color

Nose loads of grapefruit and pineapple, mostly fresh juice of both fruits, light grainy malt, hint of candied tropical fruit

TAste brings more fruit, grapefruit water, a bit pithy like but not quite and no rind, little tropical note but no specific fruit and very soft tropical, very light malt, quite thin and watery, little candied fruit, some pineapple later, unique tropically-citrus like star fruit or hand of Buddha, dry flat finish

Mouth is thin and watery, medium fizzy carb

Overall the hops are decent, but the lack of malt and body was really difficult, even for a session ale doesn't mean there needs to be no body or malt character
Oct 16, 2019
 
Rated: 4.24 by markallmon from Tennessee

Sep 04, 2019
 
Rated: 3.74 by Geosuds from Spain

Jul 18, 2019
 
Rated: 2.47 by EricPhilpott from Canada (ON)

Jul 04, 2019
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Reviewed by Larryfunnell from Canada (ON)

4.06/5  rDev +17%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A mild beer, not high on bitterness. The citrous/floral notes in the smell do not come on as strong as the smell would indicate. Poured a bit hazy, I can see this as a nice summer beer.
May 21, 2019
 
Rated: 3.76 by JiiiCVD from Canada (QC)

May 11, 2019
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Reviewed by ADicerni from Canada (BC)

3/5  rDev -13.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Colour is sort of a dirty, cloudy orange with a little white head.

Smell is floral sweet and honey.
Taste is much like a hint of honey in lite beer.
Feel is lite and nice carbonation.
Overall I’m not really impressed with this beer.
Mar 09, 2019
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Reviewed by MichaelGennings from Canada (ON)

3.54/5  rDev +2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Hopped and Confused Session Ale by Mill Street Brewery in Toronto. 4.7 % alc.

For me the premier Session Ale is Founder’s All Day IPA. This certainly falls short of that but on its own it is still pretty good.

The beer has a thick white head that lingers and the beer itself is a hazy, juicy, gold.

The aroma is melon, some citrus, and bready yeast. The melon becomes a bit more predominant as the beer warms.

The taste is melon, citrus, white bread, and a bit of a sugary note. There is virtually no hop bitterness.

The mouth feel is juicy and smooth - very mild carbonation is at play here.

The finish is remarkably dry in my mind.

Like I said, this doesn’t hold a candle to Founder’s All Day, but it’s still quite delicious. It has characteristics that remind me of a radler.

I give it a B+. Try it if you like this style.
Mar 03, 2019
 
Rated: 2.4 by Andany from Canada (ON)

Jan 23, 2019
 
Rated: 3.16 by Isaac_L95 from Canada (ON)

Nov 30, 2018
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.85/5  rDev +11%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
473ml can - part of their current sampler pack. The marketing blurb proclaims this to be 'an ale and a lager' - so, Kölsch?

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium apricot yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent dispersing campfire smoke pattern lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.

It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, pungent blood orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, further indistinct tropical fruity notes, some stoney flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a mixed domestic citrus bowl, more muddled exotic fruitiness, some damp minerality, and an additional earthy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the blended frooty esters running the lingering racket.

Overall - wow, I AM indeed confused at the hoppy character in this offering, one that is big on flavour, but low on attendant bitterness, just as advertised. Worth seeking out, which I don't often utter when talking about Mill Street products.
Nov 21, 2018
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Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)

3.85/5  rDev +11%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Hazy light gold with a good head with lacing. Decent citrus hop nose. Thinner malt body with a small hit of citrus to finish. Session IPA = Good APA.
Nov 16, 2018
 
Rated: 3.75 by Hopfenpeter from Maryland

Nov 06, 2018
 
Rated: 4.24 by Jangle_bojangle from Canada (ON)

Oct 26, 2018
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Reviewed by Jeffo from Netherlands

3.17/5  rDev -8.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
Got this one at the LCBO last summer

From a 16oz can into a snifter

APPEARANCE: Pours a 2+ finger, medium looking, fluffy white head with excellent retention. Opaque, cloudy gamboge orange with higher levels of carbonation. Head fades to a full foamy cap leaving touches of lacing on the glass. A splotchy wisp remains until the end leaving dots of lacing falling down the glass as it empties.

SMELL: Nice tropical fruits up front. Passion fruit, mango, peaches and pineapple in there. Good stuff and bold enough.

TASTE: tropical fruits with some passion fruit, mango, and then some peaches at the swallow. A bit of bitterness with a medium and shorter lived finish of bready malts, mango and peaches, as well as touches of hop bitterness.

PALATE: Lighter body, a bit thinner, with higher levels of carbonation. A little foamy going down and finishes dry.

OVERALL: Nothing worth writing home about here. The nose is nice enough, but the flavor is a little bland and the feel is definitely below par for the course. With the increase in quality IPA at the LCBO now, this isn’t really worth re-visiting.
Oct 24, 2018
 
Rated: 3.53 by spokenwheels from Canada (BC)

Jul 21, 2018
Hopped & Confused Session Ale from Mill Street Brew Pub
Beer rating: 81 out of 100 with 38 ratings