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Rutland Beer Works
- From:
- Rutland Beer Works
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 2.04%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 15, 2020
- Added:
- May 19, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
4/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Rutland Beer Works is a very small brewery in Vermont that has actually done some fairly good beers thus far, so I'm definitely looking forward to trying their new NE-style DIPA hopped with Galaxy and Vic Secret. This hop combination seems oddly redundant to me, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
The pour on this beer is quite awesome... it sits somewhere between a hazy tangerine juice and a deeper color with bright-ish amber highlights when held up to direct light. The head is huge and almost ended up pouring over the lip of my glass because I wasn't particularly careful when pouring; I didn't expect it to hit the four-finger height it wound up hitting, that's for sure! It retains pretty well, ending up at a solid finger with a nice, foamy island hanging around in the middle. And, oh man, the lace here is great. Super-sudsy and consistent. Very good!
The nose is surprisingly dank and spicy for a beer utilizing Galaxy and VS, two of the most "passion fruit"-forward hops around, though I do know that VS can have an herbal note. Not sure what the hop schedule was here (doesn't say DDH or even that this is dry-hopped, though I'm sure it was pretty highly-dry hopped if I had to make a guess). This doesn't bowl me over with an incredible smell, though, honestly, and though it's not bad, I feel a bit let down based on the hops involved and that great pour. Sure there's a good amount of raw, rindlike tangelo and a touch of peach here, but nothing that really jumps out of the glass.
Flavors are an improvement, with a strong malty backbone of biscuity and oat-laden grains followed up by a nice, hoppy core that demonstrates flavors of astringent pine resin, dank/fresh-cut grass, grapefruit peel, tangelo, and light herbal undertones. Hmm, interesting, I guess but not really outstanding quite yet. Luckily, the feel here is great and really helps the flavors that are there coalesce nicely. It's not hot whatsoever, and the crisp malt bill livens up the recipe, while the hop-driven bitterness carries on through the finish. Not my favorite use of these two all-star hops, but perhaps the use of both of them in one beer actually is a no-no? Like I said, RBW seems like a brewery I want to give the benefit of the doubt to (despite their lack of can-dating, yikes), so I will continue drinking their beer despite this not being amazing.
May 19, 2020The pour on this beer is quite awesome... it sits somewhere between a hazy tangerine juice and a deeper color with bright-ish amber highlights when held up to direct light. The head is huge and almost ended up pouring over the lip of my glass because I wasn't particularly careful when pouring; I didn't expect it to hit the four-finger height it wound up hitting, that's for sure! It retains pretty well, ending up at a solid finger with a nice, foamy island hanging around in the middle. And, oh man, the lace here is great. Super-sudsy and consistent. Very good!
The nose is surprisingly dank and spicy for a beer utilizing Galaxy and VS, two of the most "passion fruit"-forward hops around, though I do know that VS can have an herbal note. Not sure what the hop schedule was here (doesn't say DDH or even that this is dry-hopped, though I'm sure it was pretty highly-dry hopped if I had to make a guess). This doesn't bowl me over with an incredible smell, though, honestly, and though it's not bad, I feel a bit let down based on the hops involved and that great pour. Sure there's a good amount of raw, rindlike tangelo and a touch of peach here, but nothing that really jumps out of the glass.
Flavors are an improvement, with a strong malty backbone of biscuity and oat-laden grains followed up by a nice, hoppy core that demonstrates flavors of astringent pine resin, dank/fresh-cut grass, grapefruit peel, tangelo, and light herbal undertones. Hmm, interesting, I guess but not really outstanding quite yet. Luckily, the feel here is great and really helps the flavors that are there coalesce nicely. It's not hot whatsoever, and the crisp malt bill livens up the recipe, while the hop-driven bitterness carries on through the finish. Not my favorite use of these two all-star hops, but perhaps the use of both of them in one beer actually is a no-no? Like I said, RBW seems like a brewery I want to give the benefit of the doubt to (despite their lack of can-dating, yikes), so I will continue drinking their beer despite this not being amazing.
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