Single Touch - Riwaka
Messorem Bracitorium
- From:
- Messorem Bracitorium
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.2 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 02, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 01, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
From a 16oz can, dated 08/22/22. Served in a spiegelau IPA glass. (Previously on draft at the brewery).
Pours a milky-pale, sunshiney lemony-gold with a finger or so of soft, soapy suds. Retention is unremarkable, leaving a rousable but very slippery, thin sheet of lacing.
Nose is softly floral and aromatic. Flowery, perfumey, with aromas of cantaloupe and passionfruit.
Taste is very much in accord with the nose. First impression is thick, flowery, oily perfume, nearly - but not quite - to the point of being cloying. Followed by soft, sweet, juicy fruitiness: pink grapefruit, tangerine, melon. Flowery perfume in the sinuses.
Feel is soft and creamy, medium-oily bodied with bright carbonation. Nice contrast between the oily body and the brisk carbonation.
Overall, my immediate impression was that it was more Susan than Susan - which is high praise in my book. As far as taste goes, it is a near-complete clone. The body’s a little softer and creamier and doesn’t have the same lively HF minerality - but that’s just stupid nitpicky bullshit. It’s about as fine a showcase for what riwaka can do in a single-hop IPA as I’d expect to find.
I feel like maybe I’m rating this a little high but it really is a very well done single-hop IPA. FWIW, I tried 5 different beers on draft at the brewery and this was the one I chose to take home with me.
Sep 02, 2022Pours a milky-pale, sunshiney lemony-gold with a finger or so of soft, soapy suds. Retention is unremarkable, leaving a rousable but very slippery, thin sheet of lacing.
Nose is softly floral and aromatic. Flowery, perfumey, with aromas of cantaloupe and passionfruit.
Taste is very much in accord with the nose. First impression is thick, flowery, oily perfume, nearly - but not quite - to the point of being cloying. Followed by soft, sweet, juicy fruitiness: pink grapefruit, tangerine, melon. Flowery perfume in the sinuses.
Feel is soft and creamy, medium-oily bodied with bright carbonation. Nice contrast between the oily body and the brisk carbonation.
Overall, my immediate impression was that it was more Susan than Susan - which is high praise in my book. As far as taste goes, it is a near-complete clone. The body’s a little softer and creamier and doesn’t have the same lively HF minerality - but that’s just stupid nitpicky bullshit. It’s about as fine a showcase for what riwaka can do in a single-hop IPA as I’d expect to find.
I feel like maybe I’m rating this a little high but it really is a very well done single-hop IPA. FWIW, I tried 5 different beers on draft at the brewery and this was the one I chose to take home with me.
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