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Mumford Brewing
- From:
- Mumford Brewing
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 14.82%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 29, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 19, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.15/5 rDev -20.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.15/5 rDev -20.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
On-draught @ the brewery (my first beer from Mumford, which may well be the most overtly hipster-douche name for a brewery I've heretofore encountered).
6.7% ABV. Hopped with Mosaic, Equinox, and Falconer's Flight.
Pours clear and clean - obviously filtered. No haze here, thankfully. Head is white in colour, but dies inside 45 seconds, leaving light lacing on the glass' sides.
AROMA: Floral. Hints of vague fruit. Not getting any subtle blueberry or overt tropical character from the Mosaic. I guess I get some vague citric fruit - maybe tangerine? - when I really search. Suggests a hum-ho IPA with wanting hop pungency that fails to showcase Mosaic well. Pale malt sweetness quashes any overt hop bitterness.
Aromatic intensity is average.
Not imbalanced, but it doesn't commit enough to its hop flavours to make keeping it in balance all that difficult.
TASTE: Floral and citrusy. No Mosaic flavour at all (e.g. vivid tropical fruit or subtle blueberry). Pale malt sweetness keeps it balanced, but depth of flavour is subpar and it's lacking in terms of hop pungency. Not vivid or expressive.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, well-carbonated. Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, rough or scratchy.
OVERALL: Not a unique or special beer - especially within what is possibly the most oversaturated style on the planet. At $8 a pint this is a pass, especially when served in Mumford's shaker glassware, but it's better than most widely distributed big beer IPAs (Sam Adams, New Belgium, Stone). Above average, but that won't be enough to make it stand out even on a local scale - let alone national it global.
Doesn't exactly make me eager to try more Mumford beers, but I can imagine the cats in Skid Row just outside the brewery would love the dickens out of it.
Constructively, I'd suggest choosing a better hop profile, committing more to the selected hops (i.e. use more total, and use more in the boil instead of just dry-hopped), and dialing in water chemistry with more care.
C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
Oct 22, 20176.7% ABV. Hopped with Mosaic, Equinox, and Falconer's Flight.
Pours clear and clean - obviously filtered. No haze here, thankfully. Head is white in colour, but dies inside 45 seconds, leaving light lacing on the glass' sides.
AROMA: Floral. Hints of vague fruit. Not getting any subtle blueberry or overt tropical character from the Mosaic. I guess I get some vague citric fruit - maybe tangerine? - when I really search. Suggests a hum-ho IPA with wanting hop pungency that fails to showcase Mosaic well. Pale malt sweetness quashes any overt hop bitterness.
Aromatic intensity is average.
Not imbalanced, but it doesn't commit enough to its hop flavours to make keeping it in balance all that difficult.
TASTE: Floral and citrusy. No Mosaic flavour at all (e.g. vivid tropical fruit or subtle blueberry). Pale malt sweetness keeps it balanced, but depth of flavour is subpar and it's lacking in terms of hop pungency. Not vivid or expressive.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, well-carbonated. Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, rough or scratchy.
OVERALL: Not a unique or special beer - especially within what is possibly the most oversaturated style on the planet. At $8 a pint this is a pass, especially when served in Mumford's shaker glassware, but it's better than most widely distributed big beer IPAs (Sam Adams, New Belgium, Stone). Above average, but that won't be enough to make it stand out even on a local scale - let alone national it global.
Doesn't exactly make me eager to try more Mumford beers, but I can imagine the cats in Skid Row just outside the brewery would love the dickens out of it.
Constructively, I'd suggest choosing a better hop profile, committing more to the selected hops (i.e. use more total, and use more in the boil instead of just dry-hopped), and dialing in water chemistry with more care.
C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
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