Disco Infiltrator
Polly's Brew Co.
- From:
- Polly's Brew Co.
- Wales, United Kingdom
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 16, 2021
- Added:
- Sep 16, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Our staff-designed beers are back again for 2021, and this time around, all bets are off – no style is sacred, and no corners are being cut. First up this time is Disco Infiltrator, designed by our very own Head of Sales Arron. Waxing lyrical for his love of everything West Coast, it’s almost become infamous within the walls of the brewery our ongoing quest to make in his mind, the perfect West Coast IPA.
We’ve gotten close plenty of times, but that quest to quench goes on. No longer though – in collaboration with our brewers, we’ve pulled a recipe out that when tasting after canning, made Arron go “Yep, this is it lads”. Going 90% Pale/10% Crystal on the grist bill, and almost entirely hot side on the hopping, this beer is piney, resinous, and a perfect homage to those incredible breweries without whom we wouldn’t exist.
We’ve gotten close plenty of times, but that quest to quench goes on. No longer though – in collaboration with our brewers, we’ve pulled a recipe out that when tasting after canning, made Arron go “Yep, this is it lads”. Going 90% Pale/10% Crystal on the grist bill, and almost entirely hot side on the hopping, this beer is piney, resinous, and a perfect homage to those incredible breweries without whom we wouldn’t exist.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Snowcrash000 from Germany
3.63/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours a cloudy, deep, dark amber coloration with a medium, fluffy head. Smells of quite caramelly malt and citrus hops, with notes of tangerine and just a hint of pine coming through as well. Taste is a decent balance of quite sweet and caramelly malts and floral, resinous, slightly fruity and bitter hops, with citrus notes of tangerine and grapefruit, as well as some sticky pine coming through as well. Finishes with a medium bitterness and some caramel malt, tangerine and pine lingering in the aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel with a medium body and carbonation.
I haven't been able to get any Polly's in quite a while and was really looking forward to this, as I have always enjoyed their beers immensly. However, as a big fan of West Coast IPAs, this came as a bit of disappointment to me, to be honest. While there is a pretty good resinous quality to this, it's just way too caramelly sweet and not quite bitter enough for my personal taste, while also feeling a bit too floral, although I really like the zesty citrus notes here. Perhaps a bit of pineapple in there as well, actually. Overall, this makes for a nice, quite resinous West Coast IPA that could have done with a bit less sweetness and more bitterness, although it seems to come into its own a bit more as it warms a little. Really good body and mouthfeel as well
Sep 16, 2021I haven't been able to get any Polly's in quite a while and was really looking forward to this, as I have always enjoyed their beers immensly. However, as a big fan of West Coast IPAs, this came as a bit of disappointment to me, to be honest. While there is a pretty good resinous quality to this, it's just way too caramelly sweet and not quite bitter enough for my personal taste, while also feeling a bit too floral, although I really like the zesty citrus notes here. Perhaps a bit of pineapple in there as well, actually. Overall, this makes for a nice, quite resinous West Coast IPA that could have done with a bit less sweetness and more bitterness, although it seems to come into its own a bit more as it warms a little. Really good body and mouthfeel as well
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