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  • Gallicus Tmavé
    rated 3.7 6 days ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    Pours a clean, dark brown with ruby-copper highlights, a big frothy-bubbly warm, light-mocha coloured head, good retention and spots of soapy lacing all-around. Mild roasted malt aromas with a touch of dark fruits, chocolate, coffee, licorice and even banana notes. The taste shows milder roasted barley as base, with a tad molasses blended with some nice hops to finish things off. A very easy-drinking dark lager with still lots going one, but well-balanced.

  • Sir John Pete’s Lager
    rated 3.6 1 week ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    Fairly clean, light-golden colour with a white cap leaving some decent soapy lacing spots left. Getting some herbal-spiciness from the Wakatu hops, and floral-grassy-apples from the Motueka. The mild spicy-grassiness continues in the taste with a wet, lightly drying finish. Quite a nice, hopped-up giving interesting notes to a regular lager.

  • Lost Craft Grapefruit IPA
    rated 3.1 1 week ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

    Hazy golden-orange colour with a fluffy-bubbly white cap, decent stay and leaving some soapy lacing streaks. Tropical fruit aromas with cereal grains as base. The grapefruit juice comes out in the taste, but still lots of other tropical fruits blending in. Getting mango, some passion fruit, even guava. A refreshing, fruity, lighter, thinner IPA that gives out way more than grapefruit.

  • Sir John Attaboy
    rated 3.8 1 week ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    Hazy golden colour with an amber hue and lots of tiny particles, looking like spices - floating around. The head is frothy, a slight off-white with good stay and some foamy lacing. Citrus aromas like lemon zest, a mild orangy base and that Cryo dry edge I call it. The taste is mostly orange juiciness with the Cryo-dryness in the finish. Light citrusy zestiness. A pretty good juicy, citrusy, hazy DIPA that goes down well.

  • À La Dérive Panda Vampire
    rated 3.4 1 week ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Clean, darker amber colour with some mild golden highlights. The head is frothy, light warm beige coloured with decent stay and creamy-foamy lacing. Darker cereal malt aromas with some light toastiness, caramel and hints of herbal hops. The flavours are milder with fruity malts from a Rousse, with a touch of cereal, nuttiness and dryness in the finish. A very slight haze appears at last pour. A decent Rousse that is easy going down.

  • Cowbell Brewing Cencerro Cerveza
    rated 2.3 1 week ago

    Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

    Can that pours a clean, very light golden colour with a bubbly-frothy white cap, average stay and some mild foamy lacing ring. Cereal grain straw aromas with some herbal-grassiness, and hints of citrus. Eventually, plastic notes appear in the nose, and some wet cardboard. The taste shows more of the corn as base with decent lime-herbal hoppiness. Some more bitter-plasticy touch do come out. It does seem to be better drinking directly from the can, and probably much better real cold. A decent Mexican style lager, but drink from can, really, really cold for summertime.

  • Refined Fool Hat Day is Cancelled
    rated 3.6 1 week ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Part of their IPA Fun Box 8th Edition. Pours a hazy golden colour with an amber hue. A warm off-white head, decent stay and patches of lacing left. Grapefruit zest aromas with some mango notes, alcohol and hints of wax-oat coming out a little later. The alcohol calms a little down in the taste, but still shows up lingering in the after-finish. Particles do come out at last pour. Tangerine-citrusy flavours a touch lighter. Still, a refreshing citrusy IPA, just a tad alcoholic.

  • Noctem Donner sa Langue
    rated 4.0 1 week ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 9

    Hazy golden-orange colour with a big fluffy, frothy white cap, good retention and thick soapy-foamy lacing left. Fruity nose with a nice blend of pineapple-mango sweetness and lemon zest, with mild orange juice/oats as base. A juicy mouthfeel, a tad on the heavier side, but with the alcohol very well-hidden. More like bitterness from citrus peel/grassy hops that lingers in the finish. Lemony zest flavours with hints of tropical fruits. Quite a nice, refreshing, easy-to-drink Double IPA with citrusy hops and mild grassiness.

  • Gallicus Grisette
    rated 3.6 1 week ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    Mildly hazy, bright light golden-yellow colour with a bubbly white cap, average retention and lots of foamy lacing spots. Lemon, citrus nose with some Belgian yeast notes giving a touch of spices. The taste is milder, but still has the citrus, yeast and spices. Quite an easy-drinking Grisette with all of these fresh Saison notes in a lighter version.

  • Sir John Optics
    rated 3.7 1 week ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    Hazy golden-orange colour with a fluffy-frothy white head, decent stay and leaving foamy lacing streaks. Orange, tangerine and hints of pineapple in the aromas, with a touch of hoppy grassiness. Juicy citrus flavours, mouthfeel with a little dryness in the finish. Mild zesty tart is left on the tongue. A decent citrusy IPA with a blend of juiciness and zest-dryness.