Mega Citrus One
4th Tap Brewing Co-op
- From:
- 4th Tap Brewing Co-op
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9.9%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 7.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 11, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 18, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.3/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.3/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Can nabbed at a beer store in Austin, TX. 12 fl oz. Standard pull-tab. White and silver label.
"Double India Pale Ale" "Brewed with a righteous and uncompromising amount of Citra, Cascade, Simcoe [sic] hops."
HEAD: Off-white. Healthy. ~8cm in height. ~8 minute retention.
BODY: Clear copper of above average vibrance. Obviously filtered.
AROMA: Marvelously fresh, evoking citrus from Citra hops, yogurty tang from Simcoe, fresh floral notes and light hop oils from Cascade, and pale malts.
Aromatic intensity is high. Doesn't seem boozy or off in any way. I'm eager to try it.
TASTE: Bitter, hitting on notes of citrus rind, biting grapefruit/grapefruit juice, and fruit peel. Floral and resinous. Not yogurty, piney, overtly oily, herbaceous, or oniony. Pithy bitterness is overt, stepping on the hop flavours and preventing the beer from feeling balanced.
TEXTURE: Medium-bodied. Coarse. Somewhat dry. Unrefreshing. Overcarbonated.
OVERALL: A bold imperial IPA with assertive bitterness that will please those who enjoy imbalanced IPAs. More hop flavour and less hop bitterness would help considerably. I dig their choices of hops, but 4th Tap has failed to showcase them well. I'd like to revisit this fresh on-draft, though, and I do think it's one of the better locally brewed IPAs in the Austin, TX market irrespective of its abovementioned imbalance - though that might say more about the sorry state of IPAs in Austin than it does about 4th Tap.
Low B- (3.30) / WORTHY
Feb 13, 2018"Double India Pale Ale" "Brewed with a righteous and uncompromising amount of Citra, Cascade, Simcoe [sic] hops."
HEAD: Off-white. Healthy. ~8cm in height. ~8 minute retention.
BODY: Clear copper of above average vibrance. Obviously filtered.
AROMA: Marvelously fresh, evoking citrus from Citra hops, yogurty tang from Simcoe, fresh floral notes and light hop oils from Cascade, and pale malts.
Aromatic intensity is high. Doesn't seem boozy or off in any way. I'm eager to try it.
TASTE: Bitter, hitting on notes of citrus rind, biting grapefruit/grapefruit juice, and fruit peel. Floral and resinous. Not yogurty, piney, overtly oily, herbaceous, or oniony. Pithy bitterness is overt, stepping on the hop flavours and preventing the beer from feeling balanced.
TEXTURE: Medium-bodied. Coarse. Somewhat dry. Unrefreshing. Overcarbonated.
OVERALL: A bold imperial IPA with assertive bitterness that will please those who enjoy imbalanced IPAs. More hop flavour and less hop bitterness would help considerably. I dig their choices of hops, but 4th Tap has failed to showcase them well. I'd like to revisit this fresh on-draft, though, and I do think it's one of the better locally brewed IPAs in the Austin, TX market irrespective of its abovementioned imbalance - though that might say more about the sorry state of IPAs in Austin than it does about 4th Tap.
Low B- (3.30) / WORTHY
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