Eden
St. Arnulf Alery
- From:
- St. Arnulf Alery
- Kentucky, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.51%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 5.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 25, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 02, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.55/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
When the common taste of IPA zigs, the St. Arnulf Alery zags. They do so by bringing a balance to the enormity of hop bitterness and flavor with a hefty malt sweetness and an overall British-like set of complexities and textures.
Burnt orange and rich with the visual textures of winter's honey, Eden kicks off with a tall tarnish froth. Floral, fruity and herbal, hop aromatics skirt just above a rich malt base seemingly of grilled poundcake. Sweet on the tongue, the ale leads with a bold honey, caramel, biscuit and jammy maltiness.
Malt sweetness sticks to the middle palate as its sugars nestle onto each tastebud with confidence. Balancing hops bring a taste of red grapefruit, orange, apricot, marmalade and light fig. Estery and earthy, the hops develop a spicy bitterness that slightly outlasts the sweetness with a presence of southern sweet tea, sarsaparilla, verbena and fennel. Trending very much like a strong amber ale, a toasted nuttiness of pecan accompanies the bitterness with savory malt remnants.
Full bodied and moderately cakey, the rich syrups of the beer prevents the classic dryness of IPA but rather brings that English balance with a biscuit sweetness and a fresh tobacco earthiness that has the late palate tasting a mild barleywine. A long and bittersweet aftertaste is only slightly tilted toward the hops to make this more of a strong ale than an IPA.
Mar 02, 2018Burnt orange and rich with the visual textures of winter's honey, Eden kicks off with a tall tarnish froth. Floral, fruity and herbal, hop aromatics skirt just above a rich malt base seemingly of grilled poundcake. Sweet on the tongue, the ale leads with a bold honey, caramel, biscuit and jammy maltiness.
Malt sweetness sticks to the middle palate as its sugars nestle onto each tastebud with confidence. Balancing hops bring a taste of red grapefruit, orange, apricot, marmalade and light fig. Estery and earthy, the hops develop a spicy bitterness that slightly outlasts the sweetness with a presence of southern sweet tea, sarsaparilla, verbena and fennel. Trending very much like a strong amber ale, a toasted nuttiness of pecan accompanies the bitterness with savory malt remnants.
Full bodied and moderately cakey, the rich syrups of the beer prevents the classic dryness of IPA but rather brings that English balance with a biscuit sweetness and a fresh tobacco earthiness that has the late palate tasting a mild barleywine. A long and bittersweet aftertaste is only slightly tilted toward the hops to make this more of a strong ale than an IPA.
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