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Melon Head
Picaroons Traditional Ales
- From:
- Picaroons Traditional Ales
- New Brunswick, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 19.53%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 15, 2017
- Added:
- Jun 01, 2010
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 8
A crisp pale ale infused with natural watermelon extract that has a cat on the label. A new cat every year, in fact, as we host our annual Melonhead Cat Contest every spring in which we literally receive thousands of cat pictures from around the country to [email protected]
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Ratings by Lewnanny:
Reviewed by Lewnanny from Canada (NB)
3.81/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Nice beer,
Made in Fredericton near my hometown and it a must for everyone.
The watermelon subtile taste make this one perfectly tone and refreshing.
This one will be part of the beer I like to have once in a while
Sep 02, 2016Made in Fredericton near my hometown and it a must for everyone.
The watermelon subtile taste make this one perfectly tone and refreshing.
This one will be part of the beer I like to have once in a while
More User Ratings:
Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)
3.6/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Hazy gold with small head. Titular watermelon is sweet on the nose and shows up again as fruitiness on the finish. Light-bodied with a great label.
Jul 09, 2017Reviewed by PorterPro125 from Canada (NB)
3.28/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.28/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
Serving Type: 500 mL Bottle
A- Pours a clear Light Golden colour topped by a nice, thick white head with excellent lacing. Not much in the way of lacing.
S- Light and sweet fresh watermelon. Very intriguing.
T- Sweet Candy Watermelon that changes over to a mushy, overripe Watermelon real quick. Wasn't able to gather anything other than the Watermelon because of how simply revolting it was. You almost have to take a break to clear your palate in between drinks. In the spirit of respect towards beer, I pushed through this one til the end.
M- Light body and high carbonation. Refreshing, if it wasn't for the taste.
O- Since Watermelon beers are one of the most difficult fruit beers to make well, I was a little relaxed on the rating. Not a great beer but it does have some potential. Hopefully Picaroons will tweak it for next year.
Jun 11, 2015A- Pours a clear Light Golden colour topped by a nice, thick white head with excellent lacing. Not much in the way of lacing.
S- Light and sweet fresh watermelon. Very intriguing.
T- Sweet Candy Watermelon that changes over to a mushy, overripe Watermelon real quick. Wasn't able to gather anything other than the Watermelon because of how simply revolting it was. You almost have to take a break to clear your palate in between drinks. In the spirit of respect towards beer, I pushed through this one til the end.
M- Light body and high carbonation. Refreshing, if it wasn't for the taste.
O- Since Watermelon beers are one of the most difficult fruit beers to make well, I was a little relaxed on the rating. Not a great beer but it does have some potential. Hopefully Picaroons will tweak it for next year.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
500ml bottle. No description on the label, so I guess all we have to go on in discerning what kind of melon we're to expect here is from that pissed-off looking, watermelon-helmeted kitty.
This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some awkward swan profile lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of overripe watermelon, the kind that is mushy rather than crisp when you sink that butcher's knife into it, with a certain candied character to boot, pastry-adjacent pale cereal malt, and very little else. The taste is still big on the candied and fruity watermelon, but tempered enough to let the underlying grainy cereal malt strut its sugary stuff, along with a faint earthy, leafy hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its pestering frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and generally smooth, a certain flinty edginess arriving from the ether, it would seem. It finishes on the sweet side, but not overly so, enough of the fruit acids apparently working undercover to keep this out of the Slurpee Zone.
Not a bad tasting fruit beer, but watermelon is a notoriously difficult one to get across after being put through the ringer of the brew cycle. It does work here, mostly, but if my mind and palate hadn't been seeded with that information, I would have just been spinning around in circles, trying to pin the admittedly heady fruitiness on something, at least. Anyways, ok, overall.
Jul 10, 2014This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some awkward swan profile lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of overripe watermelon, the kind that is mushy rather than crisp when you sink that butcher's knife into it, with a certain candied character to boot, pastry-adjacent pale cereal malt, and very little else. The taste is still big on the candied and fruity watermelon, but tempered enough to let the underlying grainy cereal malt strut its sugary stuff, along with a faint earthy, leafy hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its pestering frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and generally smooth, a certain flinty edginess arriving from the ether, it would seem. It finishes on the sweet side, but not overly so, enough of the fruit acids apparently working undercover to keep this out of the Slurpee Zone.
Not a bad tasting fruit beer, but watermelon is a notoriously difficult one to get across after being put through the ringer of the brew cycle. It does work here, mostly, but if my mind and palate hadn't been seeded with that information, I would have just been spinning around in circles, trying to pin the admittedly heady fruitiness on something, at least. Anyways, ok, overall.
Melon Head from Picaroons Traditional Ales
Beer rating:
80 out of
100 with
35 ratings
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