Government Overspending
Tattered Flag Brewery & Still Works
- From:
- Tattered Flag Brewery & Still Works
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.12 | pDev: 0.73%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 20, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 10, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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We frivolously overspent on the finest ingredients - such as spelt malt from our friends at Deer Creek Malthouse; and Melba, Enigma, Galaxy, and Nelson Sauvin hops - to create this massive triple IPA with a surplus of tropical fruit flavor. Notes of grapefruit, passion fruit, pineapple, gooseberry, red currant, raspberry, and spice.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.09/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.09/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I'm wrapping up a day spent with Tattered Flag's CANs ISO The CANQuest (tm) & it has been quite the ride! They are clearly big on CANlaborations as well as brewing big beers. Theirs is an Army-veteran owned company, but I am willing to overlook that since they seem to know what they are doing in terms of beer.
From the CAN: "New England Style Triple IPA". Perfect!
I Crack!ed open the vent to the CANfare of some foaming CANming through the opening. 8=O My glass was ready so I simply CANtinued with a slow, gentle C-Line Glug. This resulted in some unCANtrollable foaming so I backed off & allowed it to settle. I wound up with two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, tawny head with decent retention. Man, the sicky lacing that it left in its wake was going to require a jackhammer to remove! Color was a murky Amber to Deep-Amber/Light-Copper (SRM = > 9, < 13). It looked like the CANestoga River following a heavy rain! Nose smelled like one of those Brach's peppermint caramels that my maternal grandmother used to put out. Mmm. I loved them, followed by orange & then cherry. Dang, but they were good! Mouthfeel was like a thick dollop had been ladled onto my tongue! Sadly, it did not stay there long as the fusel alcohol heat nearly caused a spit-take on my part. Phew! Man, it was burning through the old, weak, decrepit taste buds & taking no prisoners. Whew! This was a big, boozy bruiser of a beer, loaded with fruit flavor. Let's go to the "Commercial Description" - "grapefruit (3), passion fruit (2), pineapple (1), gooseberry (6), red currant (7), raspberry (4), and spice (5)". I have ordered them in terms of their intensity as I perceived them. Phew! Finish was hot & dry, utterly unrelenting. I think that will do it for this evening! YMMV.
Jul 20, 2019From the CAN: "New England Style Triple IPA". Perfect!
I Crack!ed open the vent to the CANfare of some foaming CANming through the opening. 8=O My glass was ready so I simply CANtinued with a slow, gentle C-Line Glug. This resulted in some unCANtrollable foaming so I backed off & allowed it to settle. I wound up with two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, tawny head with decent retention. Man, the sicky lacing that it left in its wake was going to require a jackhammer to remove! Color was a murky Amber to Deep-Amber/Light-Copper (SRM = > 9, < 13). It looked like the CANestoga River following a heavy rain! Nose smelled like one of those Brach's peppermint caramels that my maternal grandmother used to put out. Mmm. I loved them, followed by orange & then cherry. Dang, but they were good! Mouthfeel was like a thick dollop had been ladled onto my tongue! Sadly, it did not stay there long as the fusel alcohol heat nearly caused a spit-take on my part. Phew! Man, it was burning through the old, weak, decrepit taste buds & taking no prisoners. Whew! This was a big, boozy bruiser of a beer, loaded with fruit flavor. Let's go to the "Commercial Description" - "grapefruit (3), passion fruit (2), pineapple (1), gooseberry (6), red currant (7), raspberry (4), and spice (5)". I have ordered them in terms of their intensity as I perceived them. Phew! Finish was hot & dry, utterly unrelenting. I think that will do it for this evening! YMMV.
Reviewed by dbl_delta from Pennsylvania
4.15/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Undated can into pint glass. Pours a sludgy brownish-amber, with a modest but persistent off-white head. Initial impression: extremely fruity (but NOT predominately citrus), juicy, smooth, thick, and boozy. The alcohol kind of hangs back a bit until you let your guard down, then blindsides you in the finish. Carbonation is light; mouthfeel is thick and creamy. Finish is boozy and warming.
A little too sweet and sticky for my tastes, but that's just me. This is not something you would drink more than one of, but the one you DO drink will be extremely enjoyable!
Nov 10, 2018A little too sweet and sticky for my tastes, but that's just me. This is not something you would drink more than one of, but the one you DO drink will be extremely enjoyable!
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