Merrimack Valley Neighbors
Merrimack Ales
- From:
- Merrimack Ales
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 6.91%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 13, 2019
- Added:
- Oct 27, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by selecter70 from Massachusetts
3.19/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.19/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Sour and grainy ...more like a not good homebrew
Dec 30, 2018
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
3.75/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This is a new IPA from local darlings Merrimack Ales. It's an IPA clocking in at 6% and 40 IBUs, the profits of which are apparently set to benefit victims of a series of natural gas-related explosions in the Merrimack Valley area of MA a month or so ago. Pretty nice thing to do, but of course, we're here for the beer. Since I can't find anything specific about this one anywhere online, we're gonna go in a little blind. Here goes nothing!
This pours a slightly darker color than expected; like a burnished orange/coppery color with nice depth of hue to it. Solid, pillowy head of bone-white foam forms from small clusters of decently-spaced bubbles, leaving behind excellent, consistent sheets of dense lace. The body is a little uncharacteristically opaque for the color, leaving it a little murky looking. I dig it, for sure (especially the lacing and legs), but it looks slightly messy.
The nose is grassy and slightly-piney with tangerine, orange and lime peel/zest crossed with some lighter caramel malt elements. As with Merrimack's Cheatah! DIPA, this has some musty yeastiness to it as well, which kind of homogenizes the experience. Not really a desirable aspect, but luckily, the hops really do punch through here. As this opens up, it gains some pulpy papaya-like overtones and more juicy, tropical elements that I really dig. Still, the graininess and slightly sweet malty note is a bit rooted in the old-school, which kind of keeps this in a nebulous spot.
Tastes really solid with an initial hit of papaya, orange and passion fruit with some nice spicy and semi-sweet malt in the mid-palate. Lightly herbal and grassy as well, with some light pine and resin. The bitterness is rather curtailed here, and the finish, though juicy, is somewhat chewy and full-bodied. I'd say that the profile is overall pretty well-developed; it's a bit flat after I get about halfway through the can, though, leaving me to believe that the experience is being curtailed by the yeast. Not a terrible drink by any means, but it also doesn't really stand out to me at all. Still, the idea behind it is worthy of support, and the guys at Merrimack are generally skilled brewers, so I won't have trouble putting back the other few cans!
Oct 27, 2018This pours a slightly darker color than expected; like a burnished orange/coppery color with nice depth of hue to it. Solid, pillowy head of bone-white foam forms from small clusters of decently-spaced bubbles, leaving behind excellent, consistent sheets of dense lace. The body is a little uncharacteristically opaque for the color, leaving it a little murky looking. I dig it, for sure (especially the lacing and legs), but it looks slightly messy.
The nose is grassy and slightly-piney with tangerine, orange and lime peel/zest crossed with some lighter caramel malt elements. As with Merrimack's Cheatah! DIPA, this has some musty yeastiness to it as well, which kind of homogenizes the experience. Not really a desirable aspect, but luckily, the hops really do punch through here. As this opens up, it gains some pulpy papaya-like overtones and more juicy, tropical elements that I really dig. Still, the graininess and slightly sweet malty note is a bit rooted in the old-school, which kind of keeps this in a nebulous spot.
Tastes really solid with an initial hit of papaya, orange and passion fruit with some nice spicy and semi-sweet malt in the mid-palate. Lightly herbal and grassy as well, with some light pine and resin. The bitterness is rather curtailed here, and the finish, though juicy, is somewhat chewy and full-bodied. I'd say that the profile is overall pretty well-developed; it's a bit flat after I get about halfway through the can, though, leaving me to believe that the experience is being curtailed by the yeast. Not a terrible drink by any means, but it also doesn't really stand out to me at all. Still, the idea behind it is worthy of support, and the guys at Merrimack are generally skilled brewers, so I won't have trouble putting back the other few cans!
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