Jungle Crush
Moonraker Brewing Co.

 

 

 

 

This is the pale ale with Harambe on the label. Never forget.

Pours a cloudy yellow with 1/3" white head. Really good tropical influence here, its not just tropical fruit, has that humid jungle feel to it as well. Are there Nelson hops here? If not Nelson than definitely Mosaic. One of those just makes this dank AF.

Taste is more of the same, you get a lot more layered tastes than the aroma, the hops just go everywhere, every damn descriptor you can come up with for trees and fruit and everything under the sun is here hop wise. This pale ale version (as opposed to the double) ups the max crushability. Its not just a flaked smoothed out ride though, there is a nice tightly and lightly toasted pale malt and good 45 ibu level bitterness to hold it all together. It might not be the most affordable, but it is definitely one of my favorite pale ales in the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can poured into a BarrelHouse Brewing Co pint glass

A: Pours hazy golden yellow with a frothy off white head that hangs around and leaves some thick lacing.

S: Fruity, melon jumps out first but is by no means the dominant aroma as it quickly yeilds to tropical fruit and citrus zest, light pine, biscuity malt, and caramel honey sweetness.

T: Zesty citrus, lemon lime, grapefruit, a little tangerine, tropical fruit, plenty of pineapple and passion fruit, a little mango, peach, and apricot, slight herbal pine notes, a faint hint of melon, crackery biscuity malt, and caramel honey sweetness.

M: Light to medium body, mild carbonation, soft on the palate.

O: Solid NE style pale ale. I would mind just a touch more carbonation bite, but they really got some nice juicy flavor out of the hops.

 

 

 

Pours a hazy turbid bright straw yellow to Orange. Nose is of grasses, earth and citrus. Taste of light citrus peel, honeydew , bread/cracker malts, cut grass, pine and floral. Medium to full bodied that is slightly creamy. A slight pungent bitterness on the back end of this beer that I can't put my finger on.