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Aspire Brewing
- From:
- Aspire Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 8.86%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 24, 2024
- Added:
- Dec 23, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Shiredave from New York
3.6/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
The 2nd beer from this brewery for me. A contrasting Double IPA to their "Delight" with no mention of song birds.
No canning date but there is a black smudge on the can bottom.
OK - brewers you can have oats and wheat for beers labeled "Hazy" or "NE Style" but please have some respect for established styles and style appropriation.
This is opaque, lava lamp-ish tan in color like bad butterscotch sauce. The head is nice and tall, dense with good retention and lacing but it still looks like a goblet of sludge. 3.5 is generous mostly for head alone, realizing it's probably the look they were shooting for.
The aroma is very nice if a bit citrus forward for me. Good stone fruit and malt balance, some butterscotchy yeast notes round out the tangerine and pineapple scents.
Flavors are muddled- syrupy fruit and astringent bitterness don't equal balance somehow. Malt depth and complexity is there but harshly beaten back by a barrage of alcohol steeped pepper and grapefruit flavors that don't play well together, ignoring the rules we all learned in Kindergarten. Oat slickness and wheat sharpness are both apparent and should be separated as they are not well behaved together.
Full bodied and nicely full of malt heft and residual sugars but the finish is almost sour with rotten citrus notes and searing alcohol conflicting with the faint grassy hop aftertaste.
Yeah, this just gets worse as I drink it as it becomes cloyingly sweet and heavier on the tongue. I don't know if it;s unfermented sugars or oat/ wheat starch but this gets "gloopy" as it warms and while the bold flavors are interesting it seems more like an experiment in beer recipies.
Apr 24, 2024No canning date but there is a black smudge on the can bottom.
OK - brewers you can have oats and wheat for beers labeled "Hazy" or "NE Style" but please have some respect for established styles and style appropriation.
This is opaque, lava lamp-ish tan in color like bad butterscotch sauce. The head is nice and tall, dense with good retention and lacing but it still looks like a goblet of sludge. 3.5 is generous mostly for head alone, realizing it's probably the look they were shooting for.
The aroma is very nice if a bit citrus forward for me. Good stone fruit and malt balance, some butterscotchy yeast notes round out the tangerine and pineapple scents.
Flavors are muddled- syrupy fruit and astringent bitterness don't equal balance somehow. Malt depth and complexity is there but harshly beaten back by a barrage of alcohol steeped pepper and grapefruit flavors that don't play well together, ignoring the rules we all learned in Kindergarten. Oat slickness and wheat sharpness are both apparent and should be separated as they are not well behaved together.
Full bodied and nicely full of malt heft and residual sugars but the finish is almost sour with rotten citrus notes and searing alcohol conflicting with the faint grassy hop aftertaste.
Yeah, this just gets worse as I drink it as it becomes cloyingly sweet and heavier on the tongue. I don't know if it;s unfermented sugars or oat/ wheat starch but this gets "gloopy" as it warms and while the bold flavors are interesting it seems more like an experiment in beer recipies.
Reviewed by XsoldoutX from Pennsylvania
4.3/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.3/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Holy smokes, this is a really impressive and booming imperial IPA that serves as my introduction to the brewer. Apricot, melon, and mellow tangerine all flow together nicely here, with the only real improvement I could ask for would be a fluffier mouth & better head retention. I plan on visiting this brewery the next time I’m up in the Hudson Valley area, and this brew has got me stoked to try other offerings. Go Birds!
Dec 23, 2023
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