Radiant IPA
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 2.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 15, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 11, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
355ml can, so named after the crazy number of sunny days that Medicine Hat apparently gets per year - 330! Who knew?
This beer pours a glassy, medium copper amber colour, with a fistful of puffy, rocky, and chunky ecru head, which leaves some decent layered bands of honeycombed lace around the glass as it quickly melts away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, fresh orange and red grapefruit citrus rind, a further muddled tropical fruitiness, a hint of buttery white crackers, and some tame leafy, piney, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and biscuity caramel malt, somewhat tart generic citrus peel, more buttered bread notes, a hint of estery yeastiness, and more laid-back earthy, weedy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, just a bit of various hop astringencies burbling under the surface. It finishes off-dry, the doughy malt, mixed fruit, and gently testy hops landing as such.
Overall, this comes across much more like an English version of the style, trying oh so hard to evolve into the American. Just not crisp and assertive enough in its hoppiness (or perhaps a bit too overbearing in its malt schedule) to make me immediately want to get up and go get another one.
Mar 12, 2017This beer pours a glassy, medium copper amber colour, with a fistful of puffy, rocky, and chunky ecru head, which leaves some decent layered bands of honeycombed lace around the glass as it quickly melts away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, fresh orange and red grapefruit citrus rind, a further muddled tropical fruitiness, a hint of buttery white crackers, and some tame leafy, piney, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and biscuity caramel malt, somewhat tart generic citrus peel, more buttered bread notes, a hint of estery yeastiness, and more laid-back earthy, weedy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, just a bit of various hop astringencies burbling under the surface. It finishes off-dry, the doughy malt, mixed fruit, and gently testy hops landing as such.
Overall, this comes across much more like an English version of the style, trying oh so hard to evolve into the American. Just not crisp and assertive enough in its hoppiness (or perhaps a bit too overbearing in its malt schedule) to make me immediately want to get up and go get another one.
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