Five Fisted XPA
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 25, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 22, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - an extra pale ale, made with the Cascade, Citra, Ekuanot, Mosaic, and Warrior hop varietals.
This beer pours a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent Mercator Projection pattern lace around the glass as it rather lazily recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, some muddled melon and generic citrus rind fruitiness, a hint of estery yeast, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, some orange and red grapefruit peel, faded exotic melon notes, a damp minerality, and more earthy, musty, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly meek in its understated frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the hop quintet does well to keep things nice and chill at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the Alberta malt showing the hops how it's done in the lingering sphere.
Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered and balanced pale ale, with just enough bitterness to offset the heady base malt. Full of flavour, and worthy of checking out, even if it only takes one fist to drink it. Okay, maybe two, if it's going to be that kind of night.
Oct 25, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent Mercator Projection pattern lace around the glass as it rather lazily recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, some muddled melon and generic citrus rind fruitiness, a hint of estery yeast, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, some orange and red grapefruit peel, faded exotic melon notes, a damp minerality, and more earthy, musty, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly meek in its understated frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the hop quintet does well to keep things nice and chill at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the Alberta malt showing the hops how it's done in the lingering sphere.
Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered and balanced pale ale, with just enough bitterness to offset the heady base malt. Full of flavour, and worthy of checking out, even if it only takes one fist to drink it. Okay, maybe two, if it's going to be that kind of night.
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