Water Tiger
Lucky Envelope Brewing
- From:
- Lucky Envelope Brewing
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.42 | pDev: 12.57%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 04, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 27, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Collaboration with Highland Brewing
Happy Year of the Water Tiger from Highland Brewing and Lucky Envelope Brewing! This Cold IPA brewed with Seattle's Marketspice Berry Bush tea marks the third annual Seattle-Asheville zodiac collaboration. Late and dry hop additions of juicy El Dorado hops accentuate the honeybush tea with raspberry, strawberry, and lemongrass.
Happy Year of the Water Tiger from Highland Brewing and Lucky Envelope Brewing! This Cold IPA brewed with Seattle's Marketspice Berry Bush tea marks the third annual Seattle-Asheville zodiac collaboration. Late and dry hop additions of juicy El Dorado hops accentuate the honeybush tea with raspberry, strawberry, and lemongrass.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
2.99/5 rDev -12.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
2.99/5 rDev -12.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
Slight haze on the yellow brew with plenty of foam in the Stella Artois goblet. I don't actually taste much in the way of hops. I was somewhat mystified after a couple of sips until finally reading the fine print about the fruit and strange tea. Oddly sweet and honey tasting. Berry flavors and astringent stems. Smells like something other than beer as well. I'm all for new flavors but this is more disturbing than drinkable. From the 16 oz can.
Aug 04, 2022
Reviewed by kemoarps from Washington
3.86/5 rDev +12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.86/5 rDev +12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a rich golden body with an almost-orange tint. Decent rocky white head that recedes pretty quickly but leaves nice lacing in the glass. Pre my understanding of the cold IPA style, it's explicitly supposed to be crisp and clear, and it is not that. It's mostly opaque, kind of the consistency of honey.
Nose is immediately sweet berries and honey and floral and a bit of herbaciousness, but definitely the berry/honey/floral is the driving aroma there and it's lovely.
Flavour has an iniital sweet blush that's that same honey/floral character and then is decidedly earthy/hebacious bitter with that flat bitterness. Even if I didn't know it had tea involved in the brewing process, that's a characteristic that I think I could pick up anyway.
Finish is quite dry (which matches my understanding of the style), and lingers with a black tea herbacious bitterness that is pretty pronounced. Honestly it lingers and gets a little more cloying than I like, appropriately like when you let the tea steep too long.
Decent medium body with mild carbonation that is a little tingly which is lovely. The dry bitter finish certainly lingers.
Overall it's an interesting brew. I didn't realize when I picked up the can that it had the tea adjunct added in, and honestly I don't know that I would have grabbed it if I had seen that. The tea elements are blended into the beer elements really well, with the hops matching the tea's flavour profile really nicely, though the bitterness is a little aggressive (and I say that as someone who loves bitter/hoppy brews and misses the halcyon days of hop bombs that preceded this current era of sweet/low-IBU preference!)
Jun 27, 2022Nose is immediately sweet berries and honey and floral and a bit of herbaciousness, but definitely the berry/honey/floral is the driving aroma there and it's lovely.
Flavour has an iniital sweet blush that's that same honey/floral character and then is decidedly earthy/hebacious bitter with that flat bitterness. Even if I didn't know it had tea involved in the brewing process, that's a characteristic that I think I could pick up anyway.
Finish is quite dry (which matches my understanding of the style), and lingers with a black tea herbacious bitterness that is pretty pronounced. Honestly it lingers and gets a little more cloying than I like, appropriately like when you let the tea steep too long.
Decent medium body with mild carbonation that is a little tingly which is lovely. The dry bitter finish certainly lingers.
Overall it's an interesting brew. I didn't realize when I picked up the can that it had the tea adjunct added in, and honestly I don't know that I would have grabbed it if I had seen that. The tea elements are blended into the beer elements really well, with the hops matching the tea's flavour profile really nicely, though the bitterness is a little aggressive (and I say that as someone who loves bitter/hoppy brews and misses the halcyon days of hop bombs that preceded this current era of sweet/low-IBU preference!)
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