Mana Beast IPA
Revival Brewcade

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From:
Revival Brewcade
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
7.3%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.83 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Oct 21, 2018
Added:
Oct 21, 2018
Wants:
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Gots:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.83/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. This Calgary 'brewcade' sure likes them some IPAS. Not that this sports fan is complaining, nosiree!

This beer appears a murky, medium golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent pockmarked limestone wall lace around the glass as things quickly blow off.

It smells of bready and crackery cereal malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus flesh, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, and some leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, still hard to parse exotic fruity notes, a damp minerality, and more earthy, herbal, and resinous piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its structurally supportive frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and essentially smooth, with the hops taking ten and smoking 'em ('cause they got 'em) at this point in process. It finishes trending dry, the malt starting to waver a bit, in the face of the lingering hop prowess.

Overall - this is yet another well-made version of the style from this outfit, who may be mixing up the hop schedule in these iterative offerings, but the hell if I know. Anyways, worth giving a try, especially if you're a chronic hophead (stares at his own two thumbs).
Oct 21, 2018