Carrot Cake Milkshake IPA
4th Meridian Brewing Co.

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4th Meridian Brewing Co.
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Milkshake IPA
ABV:
7.5%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.67 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Jan 30, 2019
Added:
Jan 27, 2019
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.67/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - what's with all these holiday-themed brews being released in January?

This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some broken web pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of ginger and cardamon spice, bready and doughy caramel malt, a mild earthy vegetal character, a hint of milkiness, and some plain leafy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is ginger, cinnamon, and clove spice, grainy and bready caramel malt, carrots dipped in generic yogurt, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and gently lit-up floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of earthy spiciness kind of messing with the ideal at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the malt, spice, and root veggie essences in a lingering showdown.

Overall - this does indeed emulate the titular promise, evoking the experience of dunking carrot cake into a glass of cold milk. Do I really need this much of it? Well, with a well-integrated 15-proof booze factor, that's just how Imma gonna roll right now.
Jan 30, 2019