Old Magic Wand
Aslin Beer Company
- From:
- Aslin Beer Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 5.25%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 17, 2020
- Added:
- May 24, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Brewed up this spell with Citra, Motueka & Simcoe. Take a sip and prepare to be entranced with notes of peach, citrus, pineapple, grapefruit, pine, & lemon lime!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
3.68/5 rDev -8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
3.68/5 rDev -8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
Can:
A pale/dull sunflower haze takes up the lower portion of a cross-section of the glass, and a near creamy head takes the upper fifth. The foam gets a tad more fizzy as the bubbles combine before evaporating, but in general there remains a decently well-pact white top. Lacing comes in striations as each sip leaves a decently distinct high-water mark with some evidence of gravitational drag below.
Nose is a bit like an Orange Julius - though maybe a tad weak on the actual OJ. Sweeter tropical notes like pineapple, papaya, and coconut perhaps due to a combination of a milk sugar-like sweetness (note that there is no mention of lactose in the beer). As I sniff, I think the sweetness may be coming from or shifted by some oats. Lighter notes of orange and peach seem to come out more as it warms.
Opening is smooth, creamy, and sugar-yielding ingredient heavy (barley, oat, wheat). A weak, watered down peach and orange flavor cuts into this and the juice notes wash in from the sides. The opening sweeter notes hold up well enough, though, and the beer balances itself. Coconut and a nutty oat-like flavor gets a brief moment, as does a little tingle of carbonation, before the bitter notes come in.
The beer isn't that bitter, though - is just cleans up the juicy and sweet flavors with a light washing of raw grain/oat and light dry wood. The thicker, cloudy IPA market has a lot of options (from this brewery alone), and this one doesn't stand out from so many of them.
May 24, 2020A pale/dull sunflower haze takes up the lower portion of a cross-section of the glass, and a near creamy head takes the upper fifth. The foam gets a tad more fizzy as the bubbles combine before evaporating, but in general there remains a decently well-pact white top. Lacing comes in striations as each sip leaves a decently distinct high-water mark with some evidence of gravitational drag below.
Nose is a bit like an Orange Julius - though maybe a tad weak on the actual OJ. Sweeter tropical notes like pineapple, papaya, and coconut perhaps due to a combination of a milk sugar-like sweetness (note that there is no mention of lactose in the beer). As I sniff, I think the sweetness may be coming from or shifted by some oats. Lighter notes of orange and peach seem to come out more as it warms.
Opening is smooth, creamy, and sugar-yielding ingredient heavy (barley, oat, wheat). A weak, watered down peach and orange flavor cuts into this and the juice notes wash in from the sides. The opening sweeter notes hold up well enough, though, and the beer balances itself. Coconut and a nutty oat-like flavor gets a brief moment, as does a little tingle of carbonation, before the bitter notes come in.
The beer isn't that bitter, though - is just cleans up the juicy and sweet flavors with a light washing of raw grain/oat and light dry wood. The thicker, cloudy IPA market has a lot of options (from this brewery alone), and this one doesn't stand out from so many of them.
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