Huruhuru
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.33 | pDev: 6.01%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 15, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 26, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.28/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.28/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Appearance - Pours a hazy warm gold tone with two fingers of frothy white head.
Smell - Citrus and tropical fruit notes from the Nelson and Rakau hops, bready and caramel maltiness, touch of floral aromas.
Taste - Bready and caramel malts seem to be more dominant than I'd expect (or hope for), followed by the citrus and tropical fruit flavours associated with Nelson and Rakau variety hops. Overall flavour is mild.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Smooth finish on the palate.
Overall - I have to remind myself that this is not a NZ pale ale. However, I was disappointed by the execution of this brew. These two hop varietals are extremely flavourful in nature and I'm disappointed by their lack of presence in this beer. Such a shame.
Apr 01, 2018Smell - Citrus and tropical fruit notes from the Nelson and Rakau hops, bready and caramel maltiness, touch of floral aromas.
Taste - Bready and caramel malts seem to be more dominant than I'd expect (or hope for), followed by the citrus and tropical fruit flavours associated with Nelson and Rakau variety hops. Overall flavour is mild.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Smooth finish on the palate.
Overall - I have to remind myself that this is not a NZ pale ale. However, I was disappointed by the execution of this brew. These two hop varietals are extremely flavourful in nature and I'm disappointed by their lack of presence in this beer. Such a shame.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.49/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.49/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
355ml can - a pale ale, hopped with the New Zealand varietals Motueka and Rakau. The name means 'the feather' in Maori, and is trademarked. Ok.
This beer pours a very murky, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent layered and streaky cirrus cloud lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, acrid generic citrus rind, some hard water flintiness, and rather pungent leafy, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a prominent soapy floral character, wet stones, muddled domestic citrus, and more earthy, leafy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its basically supportive frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, that estery floral essence exhibiting some lingering oomph.
Overall - it seems that this combination of Kiwi hops produces a less than optimal outcome. The dominant soapy and floral notes are just too overbearing, which brings this whole thing crashing down. No more for me, I'm afraid to say.
Nov 27, 2017This beer pours a very murky, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent layered and streaky cirrus cloud lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, acrid generic citrus rind, some hard water flintiness, and rather pungent leafy, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a prominent soapy floral character, wet stones, muddled domestic citrus, and more earthy, leafy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its basically supportive frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, that estery floral essence exhibiting some lingering oomph.
Overall - it seems that this combination of Kiwi hops produces a less than optimal outcome. The dominant soapy and floral notes are just too overbearing, which brings this whole thing crashing down. No more for me, I'm afraid to say.
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