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Definitive Brewing Company
- From:
- Definitive Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.09 | pDev: 7.33%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 04, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 06, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
Collaboration with Deciduous Brewing Company
This lactose IPA is dry hopped with Citra and Mosaic and then conditioned on a bed of fresh pink guava. At 7.5% ABV, this beer presents a full-bodied and refreshing drinking experience that is reminiscent of gentle pink lemonade-bubble tea.
This lactose IPA is dry hopped with Citra and Mosaic and then conditioned on a bed of fresh pink guava. At 7.5% ABV, this beer presents a full-bodied and refreshing drinking experience that is reminiscent of gentle pink lemonade-bubble tea.
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Rated by spinrsx from Canada (ON)
3.77/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Can from Jacob
Aug 27, 2018
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
4.23/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.23/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Serving: Can
Canned: Jun-29-2018 (Consumed Jul-16)
A:
Pours a ruby red grapefruit juice color, super cloudy with one finger of frothy head. Okay retention; sticky lacing. (4)
S:
Thick, sweet Guava and tropical fruit character. (4)
T:
Chalky, milky fairly bitter flavor. Some citrus, guava, hop sap stickiness. (4.25)
M:
Medium body with soft carbonation and a bitter-smoothie finish. (4.25)
O:
This is as nice milkshake IPA as I've had.
Really rich, clean Guava aroma and flavor. Reminds me of a bitter, carbonated version of Boing! (a Mexican street food staple). The beer on the whole is hugely fruity and sweet and has a nice assertive pithy bitterness in the flavor. Smooth and easy-drinking. (4.5)
Jul 19, 2018Canned: Jun-29-2018 (Consumed Jul-16)
A:
Pours a ruby red grapefruit juice color, super cloudy with one finger of frothy head. Okay retention; sticky lacing. (4)
S:
Thick, sweet Guava and tropical fruit character. (4)
T:
Chalky, milky fairly bitter flavor. Some citrus, guava, hop sap stickiness. (4.25)
M:
Medium body with soft carbonation and a bitter-smoothie finish. (4.25)
O:
This is as nice milkshake IPA as I've had.
Really rich, clean Guava aroma and flavor. Reminds me of a bitter, carbonated version of Boing! (a Mexican street food staple). The beer on the whole is hugely fruity and sweet and has a nice assertive pithy bitterness in the flavor. Smooth and easy-drinking. (4.5)
Reviewed by digboy from New Hampshire
3.9/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Oddly it has the Deciduous Brewing (Newmarket, NH) name and logo in the label but it says nothing about being a collaborative. Very odd.
Pours a cloudy yellow gold color with a robust 3 finger dense biscuit head and nice sheet lacing and retention. Well done on the looks.
Smell has a sickly sweet fruity thing going from the guava juice over a light citrus base. I'm not a fan of this but I get that the guava is what they are trying to do here so in that sense they succeeded because the guava is dominant. Hope that makes sense.
Taste is similar to the smell - mostly guava juice dominating. I'm generally not into juice adjuncts and this one does not strike me as something I want to keep drinking. Malt is mostly absent.
Feel is very soft from the lactose, so it feels very milky on the tongue. No bitterness.
Well I'm still feeling like I haven't found a juice adjunct I want to have. Not that this is bad, but it's not my thing. Definitive is definitely performing at high levels so this is a must have for people who are into juice-added beers. It is much better than Lone Pine's juice beers IMO.
Jul 13, 2018Pours a cloudy yellow gold color with a robust 3 finger dense biscuit head and nice sheet lacing and retention. Well done on the looks.
Smell has a sickly sweet fruity thing going from the guava juice over a light citrus base. I'm not a fan of this but I get that the guava is what they are trying to do here so in that sense they succeeded because the guava is dominant. Hope that makes sense.
Taste is similar to the smell - mostly guava juice dominating. I'm generally not into juice adjuncts and this one does not strike me as something I want to keep drinking. Malt is mostly absent.
Feel is very soft from the lactose, so it feels very milky on the tongue. No bitterness.
Well I'm still feeling like I haven't found a juice adjunct I want to have. Not that this is bad, but it's not my thing. Definitive is definitely performing at high levels so this is a must have for people who are into juice-added beers. It is much better than Lone Pine's juice beers IMO.
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