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Second Line Brewing
- From:
- Second Line Brewing
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.97 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 21, 2021
- Added:
- Feb 05, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Hazy IPA with Himalayan Sea Salt.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.97/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.97/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
16 fl oz pull can. 4 pack ran me $11.99 USD at a beer store in New Orleans, Louisiana.
"Hazy India Pale Ale with Himalayan sea salt." No ABV is listed on the can/label, but their website reveals it's 47 IBUs and 7.4% ABV. A press release indicates it's brewed with "A combination of Citra, Sabro, Moutere, El Dorado, and Wai-iti hops"
Body is a dull lifeless copper. No yeast/lees are visible within...looks unfiltered. Murky and turbid.
Head is white in colour, somewhat frothy, and a bit creamy. Head retention is nice - ~6 minutes.
AROMA: Stonefruit, pineapple, tropical fruit, coconut, fruit creamsicle. I don't detect any salt in the aroma...doesn't have a briny scent or anything. Maltwise, I get wheat and 2-row/pale malt.
Aromatic intensity is average for an IPA.
Aroma promises a turbid IPA that steers into the vague tropical fruit skid in terms of hop profile...a beer trying to do what everyone seems to be doing these days. Doesn't suggest that any particular hop varietal is well showcased or that it even has much depth of hop flavour in general. Doesn't seem like a bitter beer at all.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Melon, pineapple, vague tropical fruit, muted peach, cantaloupe. Citra barely appears at all, and Sabro's usual coconut-redolent flavour is largely absent.
Wheat and 2-row are present, but there's zero concomitant hop bitterness to get balanced out by malt sweetness. As for the salt? I find no trace of it.
Hop profile is pleasant enough and approachable, but isn't particularly harmonious or memorable. This lacks adequate hop flavour for a proper IPA, failing to showcase hop varietals to their fullest. Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale has more Cascade hop pungency than this beer has of any its constituent varietals.
Smooth, wet, coating, medium-bodied, well carbonated, just a bit pulpy.
OVERALL: Another overpriced shrug of a turbid IPA with a vaguely defined tropical fruit hop emphasis...there're a hundred beers just like this one and almost all of them are worse than the $10-$11/sixer hazy IPAs from the likes of Sierra Nevada or Lagunitas. Second Line continues to underwhelm, but it's not a bad brew per se and it drinks easy enough. I guess at a minimum, I expected the Himalayan salt gimmick to at least be obvious.
High C (2.97) / AVERAGE
Feb 21, 2021"Hazy India Pale Ale with Himalayan sea salt." No ABV is listed on the can/label, but their website reveals it's 47 IBUs and 7.4% ABV. A press release indicates it's brewed with "A combination of Citra, Sabro, Moutere, El Dorado, and Wai-iti hops"
Body is a dull lifeless copper. No yeast/lees are visible within...looks unfiltered. Murky and turbid.
Head is white in colour, somewhat frothy, and a bit creamy. Head retention is nice - ~6 minutes.
AROMA: Stonefruit, pineapple, tropical fruit, coconut, fruit creamsicle. I don't detect any salt in the aroma...doesn't have a briny scent or anything. Maltwise, I get wheat and 2-row/pale malt.
Aromatic intensity is average for an IPA.
Aroma promises a turbid IPA that steers into the vague tropical fruit skid in terms of hop profile...a beer trying to do what everyone seems to be doing these days. Doesn't suggest that any particular hop varietal is well showcased or that it even has much depth of hop flavour in general. Doesn't seem like a bitter beer at all.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Melon, pineapple, vague tropical fruit, muted peach, cantaloupe. Citra barely appears at all, and Sabro's usual coconut-redolent flavour is largely absent.
Wheat and 2-row are present, but there's zero concomitant hop bitterness to get balanced out by malt sweetness. As for the salt? I find no trace of it.
Hop profile is pleasant enough and approachable, but isn't particularly harmonious or memorable. This lacks adequate hop flavour for a proper IPA, failing to showcase hop varietals to their fullest. Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale has more Cascade hop pungency than this beer has of any its constituent varietals.
Smooth, wet, coating, medium-bodied, well carbonated, just a bit pulpy.
OVERALL: Another overpriced shrug of a turbid IPA with a vaguely defined tropical fruit hop emphasis...there're a hundred beers just like this one and almost all of them are worse than the $10-$11/sixer hazy IPAs from the likes of Sierra Nevada or Lagunitas. Second Line continues to underwhelm, but it's not a bad brew per se and it drinks easy enough. I guess at a minimum, I expected the Himalayan salt gimmick to at least be obvious.
High C (2.97) / AVERAGE
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