Eddy Hopping (Citra)
Vibrissa Beer
- From:
- Vibrissa Beer
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 7.43%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 23, 2024
- Added:
- Jun 27, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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The first release in our revolving single hops series. This West Coast IPA is hopped with 100% Citra. Wonderful tropical fruit flavors of lime, orange and juicy mangos.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
4.42/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.42/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Can dated 6/15:
So, I am having this pretty fresh, but it is really good at under two weeks. As such, my rating might be skewing a little high, but it is what I felt of the beer when I had it.
As I popped the can, I did get a whisper of citrus and weed as it wafted by, but it didn't last long. The pour produced a nice couple fingers of a fluffy white head. After a few sips, the beer still had a near full yellow-white sheen with a large white coastline bumping into modest white cliffs reaching up the glass walls. Even by the end, there was still a white covering on the beer.
This definitely has Citra in the mix, which includes weed and a little cattiness. This actually comes out more than the citrus, but an overlay of grapefruit and tangerine is present. However, there's more weed, wet grass, and some cattiness with some of the citrus and maybe a little lemon.
First sip showed it was actually kind of a soft beer - it was fairly light for the 7% ABV with nice, rounded edges that let the beer flow freely over my palate. Carbonation was moderate, and seemed to act as the carrier of bitterness. Befoer that, there was a little citrus honey sweetness to start the beer off. Grapefruit rind and dank notes poked holes in this opening. The aromas in each glass tip provided a flanking maneuver to aid the hops jousting at the front of my tongue.
A mix of more orange and grapefruit citrus notes came out in the middle as the dank became grass at the bottom of a pine tree. Something of a little tang snuck from a hole in the ground near the back - it was sort of like a weakened tart citrus juice - so maybe a little weak lime/lemonade. It didsn't ever make it to the forefront, which was still pine and grass, but it was a little distraction from those notes.
Linger was light in its bitterness until I took a normal swallow from my watering mouth; this livened the last of the pine resin holding onto my taste buds. Nicely done and a the Citra hops really stand up in this brew.
Jun 27, 2021So, I am having this pretty fresh, but it is really good at under two weeks. As such, my rating might be skewing a little high, but it is what I felt of the beer when I had it.
As I popped the can, I did get a whisper of citrus and weed as it wafted by, but it didn't last long. The pour produced a nice couple fingers of a fluffy white head. After a few sips, the beer still had a near full yellow-white sheen with a large white coastline bumping into modest white cliffs reaching up the glass walls. Even by the end, there was still a white covering on the beer.
This definitely has Citra in the mix, which includes weed and a little cattiness. This actually comes out more than the citrus, but an overlay of grapefruit and tangerine is present. However, there's more weed, wet grass, and some cattiness with some of the citrus and maybe a little lemon.
First sip showed it was actually kind of a soft beer - it was fairly light for the 7% ABV with nice, rounded edges that let the beer flow freely over my palate. Carbonation was moderate, and seemed to act as the carrier of bitterness. Befoer that, there was a little citrus honey sweetness to start the beer off. Grapefruit rind and dank notes poked holes in this opening. The aromas in each glass tip provided a flanking maneuver to aid the hops jousting at the front of my tongue.
A mix of more orange and grapefruit citrus notes came out in the middle as the dank became grass at the bottom of a pine tree. Something of a little tang snuck from a hole in the ground near the back - it was sort of like a weakened tart citrus juice - so maybe a little weak lime/lemonade. It didsn't ever make it to the forefront, which was still pine and grass, but it was a little distraction from those notes.
Linger was light in its bitterness until I took a normal swallow from my watering mouth; this livened the last of the pine resin holding onto my taste buds. Nicely done and a the Citra hops really stand up in this brew.
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