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Arvon Brewing Co.

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From:
Arvon Brewing Co.
 
Michigan, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
7.5%
Score:
+5 ratings needed
Avg:
4 | pDev: 5.75%
Ratings:
5 | reviews: 3
Status:
Active
Rated:
Oct 29, 2021
Added:
Aug 13, 2021
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
Vermont style IPA with Galaxy, Mosaic and Cryo Simcoe hops.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by Pivopijak from Washington

3.89/5  rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
draught
Light golden tinged, light murky orange appearance. A fermented citrus peel aroma, with almost a touch of sulphur, along with a bit of sweet spice malt in the background. Decent flavors of a tiny bit spiced and fermented tangelo peel, with a skosh of medium, lightly toasted, barley malt.
Oct 29, 2021
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Reviewed by TreyIsWilson from Michigan

3.9/5  rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A - Pours a lightly hazed gold with a large creamy white head. Light soapy lacing.

S - Aroma is candied orange, grapefruit and musty hops.

T - The taste is orange, grapefruit rind, lemon zest, sweet malts and big piney hops.

M - Medium body with medium carbonation. Soft mouthfeel with a crisp dry finish.

O - Solid more traditional IPA.
Oct 24, 2021
 
Rated: 4.25 by beergorrilla from Michigan

Aug 31, 2021
 
Rated: 4.27 by Zaphog from Michigan

Aug 29, 2021
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Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut

3.67/5  rDev -8.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Canned on 8/11/21; consumed on 8/19/21

Pours an opaquely hazy darker sunflower-orange body topped with a towering head of fluffy, soapy, eggshell-white foam; great head retention leaves a finger of rolling cap over the surface, with an expansive, foamy collar on the edges and a nearly comprehensive coating of denseracing caked to the walls of the glass.

Aroma opens with tones of an almost musty orange zest underscoring a cleaner minerality intersecting with a soft, flaky malt profile; grassy resins evolve toward grapefruit peel as peach skins bring a stoic, stone fruit semi-sweetness to the back end of the bouquet.

Taste shows grapefruit peel enmeshed in orange oils and the tang of lemon zest upfront, with flaky malts and wet moss enlivening both .although and hop profiles over the mid-palate before apricot peel and passionfruit zest resume fruitier aspects on the back end and finish.

Mouthfeel brings a medium body alongside a moderate, fluffy carbonation quickly transitioning toward a twangy hop zest with underlying, resinous bitterness dispersing over the mid-palate; resinous textures smoothen and glide into the back end, tingling the palate with a bright yellow paradoxically drying and crisp finish.

A clean, largely old-school hop profile with vague hints of outright NEIPA saturation, the resins firm up a solid, otherwise basic presentation that would ultimately benefit from more of the intensified, clashing elements typically seen in the fusion of old and new IPA styles.
Aug 20, 2021