Year Of The Unicorn
Phantom Beer Co.
- From:
- Phantom Beer Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 2.65%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 11, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 27, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
-
-
Behold! Year of the Unicorn DIPA is our final release of the year – a tropical, refreshing hazy that sits at a respectable (and deceptive) 7% ABV. Late additions of Azacca (and a little Ella) hops provide tropical and floral notes. The spelt and white wheat gives the beer a bright and creamy body.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
473ml can - I like the faux Chinese New Year thing they got going on with the name and imagery on the label.
This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky dirty white head, which leaves some tight-knit island group pattern lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some melon-forward tropical fruitiness, simple syrup, a stoney flintiness, and some leafy, weedy, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, honeydew and cantaloupe melon rind, cotton candy, faint domestic citrus peel, a damp minerality, and more earthy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite tame in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed frooty essences dancing with the taciturn malt at the lingering sock-hop.
Overall - this comes across as a rather easy-drinking version of the style, with a very low bitterness quotient. It's still hoppy, but more in a fruity sort of way, and with no sign of the extra 2 points of ABV, worth sipping on as I contemplate the concept of unicorn taxidermy.
Mar 06, 2019This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky dirty white head, which leaves some tight-knit island group pattern lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some melon-forward tropical fruitiness, simple syrup, a stoney flintiness, and some leafy, weedy, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, honeydew and cantaloupe melon rind, cotton candy, faint domestic citrus peel, a damp minerality, and more earthy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite tame in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed frooty essences dancing with the taciturn malt at the lingering sock-hop.
Overall - this comes across as a rather easy-drinking version of the style, with a very low bitterness quotient. It's still hoppy, but more in a fruity sort of way, and with no sign of the extra 2 points of ABV, worth sipping on as I contemplate the concept of unicorn taxidermy.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.94/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Phantom Brewing 'Year of the Unicorn' @ 7.8% , served from a 473 ml can , 'creepiest beer label ever'
A-pour is a hazy gold from can to glass with a small white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-big & fruity
T-tart at the start , very bitter swallow
MF-ok carbonation , big medium body
Ov-has a slight wow factor , juicy
prost LampertLand
Dec 31, 2018A-pour is a hazy gold from can to glass with a small white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-big & fruity
T-tart at the start , very bitter swallow
MF-ok carbonation , big medium body
Ov-has a slight wow factor , juicy
prost LampertLand
We love reviews (150 characters or more)! Check out: How to Review a Beer. You don't need to get fancy. Drop some thoughts on the beer's attributes (look, smell, taste, feel) plus your overall impression. Something that backs up your rating and helps others. Thanks!