One Hunna: Citra
Messorem Bracitorium
- From:
- Messorem Bracitorium
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.17 | pDev: 0.96%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 18, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 14, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Citra hops are front and center with the return of One Hunna: Citra, from our single-hop Double IPA series. Its creamy texture makes it the ideal vehicle to let the powerful charge of Citra express itself fully. It reveals notes of honeydew melon, orange pulp and candied lemon. A 100% Citra experience that you never get tired of!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
4.14/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.14/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Serving: Can
Canned: Jul-27-2023
Consumed: Aug-17-2023
Pours milky straw and opaque with about the best head Messorem can produce. An inch of big, multi-sized white bubbles that leaves a rousable ring. The aroma is light citra and wonderbread. On opening the can it had more pizzazz in that department than it does after sitting in the glass a few minutes. The flavor is neither off, nor green, nor bad, nor amazing. A good start for a messorem IIPA in my book. It truly does (and I literally DID NOT read papappilosillinuesus's review before writing this) taste like spoiled orange juice. I am not sensory Rainman, but as I took my first drink I was immediately taken back to being a kid in the back of a Volvo on the way to school and drinking orange juice my mom gave us and wondering why it was prickly on my tongue (sorry, mom!). The feel is slightly astringent, not very creamy, coating. All in all this is a decent beer that touches all (or most) of the main points one wants in a double NEIPA. It doesn't completely nail any of them, but it isn't a disaster either. And for a single-hop double IPA from a brewery I feel constantly conflicted about in terms of their QA, that ain't half bad!
Aug 18, 2023Canned: Jul-27-2023
Consumed: Aug-17-2023
Pours milky straw and opaque with about the best head Messorem can produce. An inch of big, multi-sized white bubbles that leaves a rousable ring. The aroma is light citra and wonderbread. On opening the can it had more pizzazz in that department than it does after sitting in the glass a few minutes. The flavor is neither off, nor green, nor bad, nor amazing. A good start for a messorem IIPA in my book. It truly does (and I literally DID NOT read papappilosillinuesus's review before writing this) taste like spoiled orange juice. I am not sensory Rainman, but as I took my first drink I was immediately taken back to being a kid in the back of a Volvo on the way to school and drinking orange juice my mom gave us and wondering why it was prickly on my tongue (sorry, mom!). The feel is slightly astringent, not very creamy, coating. All in all this is a decent beer that touches all (or most) of the main points one wants in a double NEIPA. It doesn't completely nail any of them, but it isn't a disaster either. And for a single-hop double IPA from a brewery I feel constantly conflicted about in terms of their QA, that ain't half bad!
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.21/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
4.21/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
From a 16oz can with an illegible date-stamp. IG shows it around 07/27/23. Served in an IPA glass.
Pours a thick-appearing milky orange juice-colour with a scant finger of soft suds. Retention is unremarkable, leaving a wispy cap, creamy collar, and spattery sheet of slippery lacing.
Nose is yeasty-fruity, principally sweet citrus but also notes of squishy-ripe, sugary jungle fruit.
Taste is a smidge less sweet/more bitter, tart and composty than the nose suggested but otherwise wholly in accord. Tasting grapefruit, slightly ‘off’ orange juice, lemon-lime, and ripe, sticky jungle fruit… papaya? sure, why not, papaya. Leafy bitterness at the end tempered by oaty softness.
Feel is juicy with a relatively hefty, doughy body lightened by bright, prickly carbonation. Similar to the taste, a sensation of hoppy grittiness is smoothed out by soft oaty slickness - I want to say that the oatiness is like a soothing coating of mucous over a strep throat-like hop burn. But that would be gross.
Overall, a Citra showcase. And lots of it. Even three weeks out from canning the hop burn leaves my throat raw. (Not that I don’t totally dig that sensation because I do). The IG notes promise ‘notes of honey melon, orange pulp and candied lemon’ and, I don’t know, maybe? Plenty of sweet citrus and a little sticky tropical fruit for sure.
Aug 14, 2023Pours a thick-appearing milky orange juice-colour with a scant finger of soft suds. Retention is unremarkable, leaving a wispy cap, creamy collar, and spattery sheet of slippery lacing.
Nose is yeasty-fruity, principally sweet citrus but also notes of squishy-ripe, sugary jungle fruit.
Taste is a smidge less sweet/more bitter, tart and composty than the nose suggested but otherwise wholly in accord. Tasting grapefruit, slightly ‘off’ orange juice, lemon-lime, and ripe, sticky jungle fruit… papaya? sure, why not, papaya. Leafy bitterness at the end tempered by oaty softness.
Feel is juicy with a relatively hefty, doughy body lightened by bright, prickly carbonation. Similar to the taste, a sensation of hoppy grittiness is smoothed out by soft oaty slickness - I want to say that the oatiness is like a soothing coating of mucous over a strep throat-like hop burn. But that would be gross.
Overall, a Citra showcase. And lots of it. Even three weeks out from canning the hop burn leaves my throat raw. (Not that I don’t totally dig that sensation because I do). The IG notes promise ‘notes of honey melon, orange pulp and candied lemon’ and, I don’t know, maybe? Plenty of sweet citrus and a little sticky tropical fruit for sure.
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