Horicon Session IPA
Central Waters Brewing Co. in Amherst, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Session Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.91
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught @ Albion. Cloudy rich yellow with small foamy off-white head, grassy hops aroma, low carbonation, lightly bitter taste, thin body, medium bitter finish. Smooth but not spectacular.Earlier Rating: 9/3/2014 Total Score: 3.3Drought. Reddish amber with creamy off-white head, crisp hops aroma, hoppy taste with low carbonation, floral hops flavor dominating the aftertaste, following a longish finish. Unexpectedly nice session brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 5/13/2014. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy orange/copper color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice rings of soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, mango, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, pine, light caramel, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/tropical/piney hops and moderate bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, mango, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, pine, light caramel, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Good amount of pine/citrus rind bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, mango, lemon/orange rind, pine, toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice robustness, complexity, and balance of citrus/tropical/piney hops and moderate bready malt flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance with minimal hop astringency after the finish. Good amount of dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, sticky/resinous, and slightly creamy/bready mouthful that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.5%. Overall this is a very good session IPA. All around good robustness, complexity, and balance of citrus/tropical/piney hops and moderate bready malt flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. Even with the labeled age of this bottle, the hop flavors still had good vibrancy, and it was still very enjoyable.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Creamy orange malt and weedy/herbal aroma. Hazy golden yellow with large off-white head. Sweet creamy orange malt and moderately bitter herbal/weedy orange peel flavor. Medium body. Pretty good.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle: Pours cloudy, amber-gold with a thick beige head. Orange, grapefruit scent. Taste is a big, piney-leafy hop bitter...dank grapefruit-peel. Very solid.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home. [ As Central Waters Hop Rise Session Ale ].Clear medium golden amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to light heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, dried fruit, grass - wood. Initial flavour is moderate sweet and bitter, finish flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, woody hops, fruity, dry, pine. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20141106]