Feet First - El Dorado
River Roost Brewery
- From:
- River Roost Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 6.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 29, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 14, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
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Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.49/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
From a 32oz growler, filled at the brewery two days ago. Served in a spiegelau.
Pours a medium murky, dirty-golden-pear colour with two fingers of pouffy, soft, creamy froth. Retention is very good and leaves a thick, webby curtain of fat lacing.
The nose is sweet and fruity. Smells of oranges, limes, watermelon and vanilla birthday cake.
Starts out all fruit basket and candy up front, pineapple, peach and orange peels, with a vanilla cupcake body, a grassy/mushroom funkiness at the center and a sort of grapefruit-and-juniper bitterness edging in toward the finish.
Mouthfeel is soft and juicy, medium bodied with fine, tingly carbonation.
Overall, a superbly drinkable NEIPA. Excellent.
(I had thought that Mark's Feet First series of single hop beers were going to be one-offs and I wasn't bothering to review them but, now that he seems to be rotating through previous iterations, I guess I had ought to start keeping track of them. Every one I've had has been terrific so far).
Jan 20, 2018Pours a medium murky, dirty-golden-pear colour with two fingers of pouffy, soft, creamy froth. Retention is very good and leaves a thick, webby curtain of fat lacing.
The nose is sweet and fruity. Smells of oranges, limes, watermelon and vanilla birthday cake.
Starts out all fruit basket and candy up front, pineapple, peach and orange peels, with a vanilla cupcake body, a grassy/mushroom funkiness at the center and a sort of grapefruit-and-juniper bitterness edging in toward the finish.
Mouthfeel is soft and juicy, medium bodied with fine, tingly carbonation.
Overall, a superbly drinkable NEIPA. Excellent.
(I had thought that Mark's Feet First series of single hop beers were going to be one-offs and I wasn't bothering to review them but, now that he seems to be rotating through previous iterations, I guess I had ought to start keeping track of them. Every one I've had has been terrific so far).
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.37/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.37/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On tap at Blackback Pub in Waterbury, VT.
This one pours a fairly hazy orange-ish yellow, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
El Dorado is a hop that produces a huge orange juice hop flavor- and this beer carries that through very strongly. There's also stone fruit and bitter grapefruit, and no malt character.
This brings forward the huge orange and tangerine flavors over to the taste, with a nice healthy bitterness on the finish. It's not muddled in any way, and feels very clean.
This is light bodied, creamy, and so drinkable, with a good level of carbonation.
These guys can't be missed when you travel up to VT.
Jan 15, 2018This one pours a fairly hazy orange-ish yellow, with a small head, and lots of lacing.
El Dorado is a hop that produces a huge orange juice hop flavor- and this beer carries that through very strongly. There's also stone fruit and bitter grapefruit, and no malt character.
This brings forward the huge orange and tangerine flavors over to the taste, with a nice healthy bitterness on the finish. It's not muddled in any way, and feels very clean.
This is light bodied, creamy, and so drinkable, with a good level of carbonation.
These guys can't be missed when you travel up to VT.
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.29/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.29/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Growlette (32 oz) from the brewery.
Poured into a becher pint glass and a tulip. The color was a murky dark yellow to woody orange color. The head lasted about a minute longer than what was in the tulip. There was also more lace surrounding the becher pint glass and stuck nicely. In the tulip, it slid off in strings.
The aroma was the same in both glasses, no change. A nice mellow grapefruit pulpy sweet to bitter character playing with some bitter orange rind-like tones. Grassy hoppy sweetness with a little bit of white pepper.
The flavor was moderately sweet with a substantial bitter juicy grapefruit to orange-like character. Decent little spice coming from the white pepper. Nice aftertaste of juicy bitterness of the orange to grapefruit-like character.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation was nice and low as expected by a New England styled IPA. ABV felt as projected by the brewer. Nice juicy orange to grapefruit-like finish.
Overall, very nicely done New England styled IPA well worthy of having again.
Jan 14, 2018Poured into a becher pint glass and a tulip. The color was a murky dark yellow to woody orange color. The head lasted about a minute longer than what was in the tulip. There was also more lace surrounding the becher pint glass and stuck nicely. In the tulip, it slid off in strings.
The aroma was the same in both glasses, no change. A nice mellow grapefruit pulpy sweet to bitter character playing with some bitter orange rind-like tones. Grassy hoppy sweetness with a little bit of white pepper.
The flavor was moderately sweet with a substantial bitter juicy grapefruit to orange-like character. Decent little spice coming from the white pepper. Nice aftertaste of juicy bitterness of the orange to grapefruit-like character.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation was nice and low as expected by a New England styled IPA. ABV felt as projected by the brewer. Nice juicy orange to grapefruit-like finish.
Overall, very nicely done New England styled IPA well worthy of having again.
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