Moonlight Kettle Series (2020): Hop Blaster
Muskoka Brewery
- From:
- Muskoka Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.39 | pDev: 11.21%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 07, 2021
- Added:
- Dec 03, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.6/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473 ml can served cold into a pint glass. LCBO purchase for under $4 CDN.
Appearance - Clear, pale rose colored beer capped with a finger and a half of tight white foam. Pretty good staying power with sparse lacing. A few visible bubbles rise to the surface.
Smell - Sour cherries yes with some candy like quality there and a hint of spiciness and a general wheat quality. Maybe a touch of citrus. Smells more like a sour than an IPA for sure.
Taste - Initially sour and lots of cherry flavor then turns a bit weedy and bitter and finishes with some citrus and spicy hops. Odd combo but sort of works.
Mouthfeel - Aggressively carbonated, quite acidic and then finishes peppery or spicy. Body is medium-light and the carbonation gives off all sorts of sensations on the tongue.
Overall - I like this beer, it is unique but the execution, I don't really know hop it could be better, but it could be so much worse and only the whole Hop Blaster is one of the better Sour IPA's on the market although it is a sour first and second and an IPA third. Worth a try if it's your jam.
Dec 24, 2020Appearance - Clear, pale rose colored beer capped with a finger and a half of tight white foam. Pretty good staying power with sparse lacing. A few visible bubbles rise to the surface.
Smell - Sour cherries yes with some candy like quality there and a hint of spiciness and a general wheat quality. Maybe a touch of citrus. Smells more like a sour than an IPA for sure.
Taste - Initially sour and lots of cherry flavor then turns a bit weedy and bitter and finishes with some citrus and spicy hops. Odd combo but sort of works.
Mouthfeel - Aggressively carbonated, quite acidic and then finishes peppery or spicy. Body is medium-light and the carbonation gives off all sorts of sensations on the tongue.
Overall - I like this beer, it is unique but the execution, I don't really know hop it could be better, but it could be so much worse and only the whole Hop Blaster is one of the better Sour IPA's on the market although it is a sour first and second and an IPA third. Worth a try if it's your jam.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.73/5 rDev +10%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.73/5 rDev +10%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
473 mL can from the LCBO; best before Mar 17 2021 and served slightly chilled.
Pours orange-amber with a bit of a pinkish hue, with one finger of foamy, off white-coloured head gathering atop before receding over the next couple of minutes. It deposits a sloppy band of wavy lace as it melts away, soon replaced with a thin collar and some filmy wisps on the surface. It smells of sour cherry candy and lactic acidity, with hints of citrus, grainy wheat and Hawaiian Punch. Too muted... if you're going to make a sour cherry IPA then either the hops or the cherries (or maybe even both if you're lucky) need to really pop on the nose, and this achieved neither.
The flavour profile starts off tart and sweet, with cherry, underripe plum and lemon coming through atop a wheaty, grainy pale malt backbone. Lactic acidity and very mild funk towards the finish, which also includes suggestions of orange and stone fruit buried underneath the overarching sour cherry flavours, which linger into the aftertaste for a while before the palate dries off. Medium in body, with assertive carbonation that provides a firm bite, resulting in a crisp, rather refreshing texture. Good drinkability, at least for a sour.
Final Grade: 3.73, a serviceable B grade. Cherry Blasters were one of my favourite candies when I was a kid, so Muskoka's Hop Blaster was starting with a built-in advantage that most sours wouldn't benefit from. Even still, this is merely passable as a soured fruit beer, and not much of an IPA if you ask me - but don't take my word for it, particularly if you're more enthusiastic about sour IPAs than I am (which is to say, not very). Worth a spin, and I'd consider getting it again if I were in the mood.
Dec 17, 2020Pours orange-amber with a bit of a pinkish hue, with one finger of foamy, off white-coloured head gathering atop before receding over the next couple of minutes. It deposits a sloppy band of wavy lace as it melts away, soon replaced with a thin collar and some filmy wisps on the surface. It smells of sour cherry candy and lactic acidity, with hints of citrus, grainy wheat and Hawaiian Punch. Too muted... if you're going to make a sour cherry IPA then either the hops or the cherries (or maybe even both if you're lucky) need to really pop on the nose, and this achieved neither.
The flavour profile starts off tart and sweet, with cherry, underripe plum and lemon coming through atop a wheaty, grainy pale malt backbone. Lactic acidity and very mild funk towards the finish, which also includes suggestions of orange and stone fruit buried underneath the overarching sour cherry flavours, which linger into the aftertaste for a while before the palate dries off. Medium in body, with assertive carbonation that provides a firm bite, resulting in a crisp, rather refreshing texture. Good drinkability, at least for a sour.
Final Grade: 3.73, a serviceable B grade. Cherry Blasters were one of my favourite candies when I was a kid, so Muskoka's Hop Blaster was starting with a built-in advantage that most sours wouldn't benefit from. Even still, this is merely passable as a soured fruit beer, and not much of an IPA if you ask me - but don't take my word for it, particularly if you're more enthusiastic about sour IPAs than I am (which is to say, not very). Worth a spin, and I'd consider getting it again if I were in the mood.
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.5/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
The appearance reminds me of Cran-Raspberry juice. The head is white and fairly decent. The smell has sour notes to it. The taste has a mild sourness to it but also a lot of tart cherry. I’m having a difficult time determining whether this is a sour beer flavoured with cherries or an IPA with the tartness coming with the addition of cherries. Nevertheless pretty decent
Dec 11 2020
Dec 12, 2020Dec 11 2020
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