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Mast Landing Brewing Company

 

I wasn’t sure what to expect with Sabro and Rakau hops.

Pleasantly surprised.

Pours a cloudy golden color with a four finger head in a Spielgelau IPA glass. Nice looking beer.

Aroma: stone fruit, coconut and tropical fruit.

Mouthfeel: rich and smooth.

Taste: transitions well from the aroma. Very well balanced stone fruit, tropical fruit and coconut. Not too hoppy.

Excellent beer collab. Love these hops.

Pours a beautiful gold color, very cloudy with a white 1 finger head. Aroma is distinctively white peach. Love it. Flavor is very similar. This is a masterful use of sabro. There is a floral flavor blending with the warm , usually coconut flavor of sabro. Comes across as white peach to me and it is fantastic. Feel is soft and a little fizzy. Too bad this is a one time beer most likely.

 

1 month old can courtesy of jeffreed61.
L: mango purée, minimal head. Not that photogenic.
S: stonefruit, tartar sauce.
T: Stonefruit, dank, Grassy, vanilla, tartar.
F: juicy, minimal carbonation. No booziness.
Overall: wanted to like this and not be a hater. But it tastes like the secret ingredient is cream of tartar. Couldn’t finish. I researched the hops and the sabro can give mint and cream tastes, so maybe that’s what my problem is?

05/25/20 BATCH 1 15:18 stamped on bottom of can. Poured into a Samuel Adams Perfect Pint.

A: Hazy Arnold Palmer hue with 2-3 fingers of foamy off-white head with good retention and craggy lacing.

S: Lavender soap with coconut and lime

T: Lavender soap with coconut and lime and a tacky herbal, viney note that won’t go away. Low bitterness and hgih amounts of soapy floral esters.

M: Soft and medium-bodied with no chalkiness and ;lowish carbonation.

O: The weird soapy character is off-putting despite the interesting coconut, lime, and herbal notes. Toning down the esters may help but hard to say if that’s the source of the odd aroma and flavor.

A: The beer is very hazy to cloudy whitish pale yellow in color. It poured with a half finger high white head that died down, leaving lots of specks of bubbles covering the surface, a narrow collar around the edge, and lots of lacing down the side of the glass.
S: Light to moderate aromas of coconut and lime are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and has flavors of coconut along with notes of lime and hints of stone fruit.
M: It feels medium-bodied and somewhat juicy on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This New England style IPA goes down very easily and has nice notes of coconut from the Sabro hops.

Serving type: can

Great NE IPA. I taste a lot of juicy mango in this beer with a medium body. Perfect amount of bitterness. Easy drinking especially for the abv clocking in at 8%

 

A fun idea here... collaboration hazy double IPA from Mast Landing and Aslin; clever, kitschy art referencing the current craft beer-social media paradigm (obsession with photographing and sharing pictures of new beers, which I am 100% guilty of, just not on Untappd proper, I'll have you know), featuring a dense DDH addition of Rakau, Citra, and Sabro hops. I've been seeing Sabro pop up in a ton of beers recently, and it usually comes across quite strongly. Let's see what happens in this one.

Pours a very stable looking hazy and yeasty orange color with almost zero light penetration, topped off with a pretty well-defined head of bone-white foam that initially reaches up to three fingers. Though it settles to a solid single finger and subsequent pours only net a half-finger at most, the legs and lace here are spectacular, and the surface of the beer itself is even mostly covered by whisps of sudsy goodness. Solid as hell.

Alright, so this has some cool hops involved in the process. Citra is self-explanatory, but Sabro being an experimental varietal with coconut and herbal notes alongside Rakau, which typically bears a huge stone fruit character should yield a very interesting scent. The combination of all three gives off primarily coconut, grassy, gummy candy, raspberry, and blackberry scents that really throw me for a loop. What an odd but pleasantly-satisfying and well-blended combo this seems like it'll be! Slight sniffs of ethanol in here, for sure, along with some raw hop essence... kinda green (week and a half old can, for the record) so maybe that makes some sense.

Big time coconut on the palate; how does this not have any flavorings added?! It's uncanny how tropical and oddly-nutty this is. Some grassy flavors along with apricot, papaya, and light peach. Yeah, the Rakau comes across a lot here, and I get very little from the Citra save a bit of light guava and tangelo in the finish. If you enjoy coconut-forward hoppy beers, you'll love this. Anyone else should probably approach with caution. Feel is great; well-rounded and slick where it counts, but still nice and hop-saturated toward the mid-finish, finishing somewhat oily. Definitely has a "DDH" distinction to it. Some DDH-declaring beers don't really follow through on the promise in terms of feel, but this one is definitely the real thing... whatever that means. Now let your camera have another sip, it deserves it.