Punch Bowl Mango IPA
Russell Brewing Company
- From:
- Russell Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 6.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 20, 2018
- Added:
- Sep 11, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Mango punchbowl is a classic punchbowl base dry hopped with Citra which plays well with the mango tropical flavours. Fresh mangos were then added along with mango nectar to level out the bitterness and add a sweet finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.32/5 rDev -10.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.32/5 rDev -10.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
650ml bottle - their fruity Punch Bowl IPA with added levels of mango.
This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves a bit of random splotchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of muddled tropical fruit (hard to pick out the mango, FWIW), generic domestic citrus, gritty and grainy pale malt, a much lesser caramel sweetness, and a bit of earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready pale malt, a minor buttered toast weirdness, stale mango and guava exotic fruity notes, equally muddled citrus flesh, some untethered yeastiness, and more weak leafy, musty, and herbal 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a mediocre time here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and indeterminate fruitiness wanly showing us the door.
Overall - yeah, I don't know what went wrong here, as the base IPA is normally quite peppy and engaging, and one would think that adding actual mango to it would only up its game. Not the case, apparently, as this comes across as bland and nearly off. Can't really think of anything else to say.
Sep 25, 2017This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves a bit of random splotchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of muddled tropical fruit (hard to pick out the mango, FWIW), generic domestic citrus, gritty and grainy pale malt, a much lesser caramel sweetness, and a bit of earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready pale malt, a minor buttered toast weirdness, stale mango and guava exotic fruity notes, equally muddled citrus flesh, some untethered yeastiness, and more weak leafy, musty, and herbal 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a mediocre time here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and indeterminate fruitiness wanly showing us the door.
Overall - yeah, I don't know what went wrong here, as the base IPA is normally quite peppy and engaging, and one would think that adding actual mango to it would only up its game. Not the case, apparently, as this comes across as bland and nearly off. Can't really think of anything else to say.
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