Close to Paradise
Whiplash Brewing
- From:
- Whiplash Brewing
- Ireland
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.13 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 29, 2021
- Added:
- Sep 29, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
CAN
Milky, dirty blonde with sticky white froth.
Mango, nectarine and herb nose.
Shortbread, peaches, passionfruit, canary, mandarin, grape, and grassy end. Opens into more mango.
Creamy + soft body
Nelson Sauvin, Ekuanot
4 4 4.25 4.25 4
Curious choice of hops: a pair of hops that usually play supporting roles; there's no Citra/Simcoe/Mosaic backbone.
That's probably good, because it's delivering delicate notes to start: stone fruit, melon, and mild citrus, being dragged slightly more tropical by the Ekuanot.
What's throwing things off is the hop burn. I'm drinking these fresh enough, I admit - this one's a month on the market - but these light flavours, it's hard to ignore.
That softens a bunch, however, once you pour the dredges. Out comes new layers of lemon curd, guava, maybe gooseberry if I squint hard enough and even that green pepper acidity that Ekuanot is supposed to be known for. (Serious question: Am I meant to be rolling the can with Whiplash?)
Even then, though, it ends up in the mushy middle: the Ekuanot mutes the refined Nelson character while never quite going full fruit salad.
Just can't fall in love with this one.
Sep 29, 2021Milky, dirty blonde with sticky white froth.
Mango, nectarine and herb nose.
Shortbread, peaches, passionfruit, canary, mandarin, grape, and grassy end. Opens into more mango.
Creamy + soft body
Nelson Sauvin, Ekuanot
4 4 4.25 4.25 4
Curious choice of hops: a pair of hops that usually play supporting roles; there's no Citra/Simcoe/Mosaic backbone.
That's probably good, because it's delivering delicate notes to start: stone fruit, melon, and mild citrus, being dragged slightly more tropical by the Ekuanot.
What's throwing things off is the hop burn. I'm drinking these fresh enough, I admit - this one's a month on the market - but these light flavours, it's hard to ignore.
That softens a bunch, however, once you pour the dredges. Out comes new layers of lemon curd, guava, maybe gooseberry if I squint hard enough and even that green pepper acidity that Ekuanot is supposed to be known for. (Serious question: Am I meant to be rolling the can with Whiplash?)
Even then, though, it ends up in the mushy middle: the Ekuanot mutes the refined Nelson character while never quite going full fruit salad.
Just can't fall in love with this one.
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