Total Ecalypso IPA
Troubled Monk Brewery
- From:
- Troubled Monk Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.1%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 1.57%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 17, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 06, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - thanks to IronDjinn (aka Jeff) for throwing a single of this my way, in addition to some stellar home-made beef jerky!
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with three zaftig fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves some streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it rather slowly sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, mixed domestic citrus rind, further indistinct tropical fruity notes, a hint of pink bubblegum, and some leafy, weedy, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some red berry-esque fruitiness, still muddled generic citrus peel, an ethereal earthy yeast character, and more herbal, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a minor hop acridity making a bit of fuss at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hop bitterness on the ascension.
Overall - this comes across as an adequately rendered version of the style, with these two less common hop varietals seemingly at odds with the base beer at times. I'm not getting the robust fruity essences that one might have been expecting. Ah well, glad to have tried it.
Mar 17, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with three zaftig fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves some streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it rather slowly sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, mixed domestic citrus rind, further indistinct tropical fruity notes, a hint of pink bubblegum, and some leafy, weedy, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some red berry-esque fruitiness, still muddled generic citrus peel, an ethereal earthy yeast character, and more herbal, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a minor hop acridity making a bit of fuss at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hop bitterness on the ascension.
Overall - this comes across as an adequately rendered version of the style, with these two less common hop varietals seemingly at odds with the base beer at times. I'm not getting the robust fruity essences that one might have been expecting. Ah well, glad to have tried it.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
TM’s latest seasonal is a tasty, high test, straightforward IPA. It pours a rich gold color, with an inch of white foam that quickly dissipates and leaves minimal lacing. The nose is subtle - a bit of resin, a bit of citrus. In the taste department, there is lots of juice, notably grapefruit. It finishes dry, and definitely satisfies, particularly if you are a fan of Palisade and Calypso hops. Not my favorite TM seasonal, but certainly another quality beer from my hometown brewery.
Mar 06, 2018
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