XPA
Reckless Brewing Co.
- From:
- Reckless Brewing Co.
- Australia
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.13 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 11, 2025
- Added:
- Apr 11, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This is an XPA. It’s easy to say you’ll love it, because everyone loves an XPA, but this is an extra good one. An all-Aussie line up of malt and Galaxy hops with fat tropical flavours of passionfruit and citrus, perfectly balanced against a light, crisp malt backdrop. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Wait till you taste it – just keep it tidy, for Pete’s sake.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by AzfromOz from Australia
4.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This was gifted to me in January 2025, and I drank it in April of that year.
L: Very light, almost washed-out gold, with virtually no head and large, slow-moving bubbles in the glass.
S: The nose is big citrus and stonefruit notes.
T: The taste is very lemon-driven citrus, with the stonefruit and a hit of passionfruit coming through retronasally. Bitterness is medium, dominated by peel, but very clean. The malt body is almost totally overwhelmed by the hop notes. The finish is quenching and very dry.
M: Carbonation is high, and the beer kicks all the way down. The beer's body is towards the thin end but matches the carbonation profile.
O: This is a very easy, clean and tasty beer. The bitterness and carbonation might be too much of a handful for a macro lager drinker, but as a sunny day session beer, this has all the craft-drinking bases covered. That said, I just reread my review of Reckless's Cold XPA, and apart from the head and colour, it appears to be a carbon copy in the nose and taste. Good on them for rebranding it if the recipe changed, but it seems to be essentially the same beer.
Cheers!
#692
Apr 11, 2025L: Very light, almost washed-out gold, with virtually no head and large, slow-moving bubbles in the glass.
S: The nose is big citrus and stonefruit notes.
T: The taste is very lemon-driven citrus, with the stonefruit and a hit of passionfruit coming through retronasally. Bitterness is medium, dominated by peel, but very clean. The malt body is almost totally overwhelmed by the hop notes. The finish is quenching and very dry.
M: Carbonation is high, and the beer kicks all the way down. The beer's body is towards the thin end but matches the carbonation profile.
O: This is a very easy, clean and tasty beer. The bitterness and carbonation might be too much of a handful for a macro lager drinker, but as a sunny day session beer, this has all the craft-drinking bases covered. That said, I just reread my review of Reckless's Cold XPA, and apart from the head and colour, it appears to be a carbon copy in the nose and taste. Good on them for rebranding it if the recipe changed, but it seems to be essentially the same beer.
Cheers!
#692
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