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4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Mikkeller San Diego x Finback Brewery, Porter - Baltic, USA

Mikkeller San Diego x Finback Black Tide

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Brewery: Mikkeller San Diego x Finback Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 9%
Style: Baltic Porter
Other Notes: Collab Series

Brewer Description: (from can) Baltic style Porter brewed with barrel aged maple syrup.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.08
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 1 pint can, with a Julian canned on date of 18059, meaning that it was canned on 28th February 2018. Poured into a MBCC 2018 stemmed tasting glass.
Appearance: Dark dark brown to black colour with a half finger mocha head that dissipated fairly quickly, but left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Smokey, char, roasted malts, dark chocolate and milk chocolate.
Taste: Roasty malts, bitter dark chocolate, smoke/ashy, followed by creamy milk chocolate, with only a very small hint of maple and maybe even some dark fruit.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, medium to full bodied with moderate to low carbonation.
Overall: A nice and enjoyable Baltic Porter, but I’m not getting much of the maple that it is supposedly brewed with.

4 - Good (buy), American Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Highland Park Brewery, USA

Highland Park Yeah Yeah

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Brewery: Highland Park Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 8%
Style: American Double IPA
Other Notes: Hazy Double IPA w/ Mosaic, Simcoe & Vic Secret

Brewer Description: (from ‘currently on tap’ list Hermosillo) Hazy Double IPA – Vic Secret, Mosaic and Simcoe. Pineapple, Stone Fruit, Tree Sap. Yeast: US05 and London 3.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.24
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 16 fl. oz. can with no clear canned on or best before date. Poured into a MBCC 2018 stemmed tasting glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden orange colour with a very thin less than half finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly but left some light lacing.
Aroma: Lemon, lemon peel and pineapple with a touch of papaya and kiwi.
Taste: Juicy and lightly bitter. Papaya, pomelo, pineapple, melon, pomelo rind and peel.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: A nice and great tasting Double IPA. On a side note, I also love the can whose design means you could flip it upside down and it would still appear the same.

4 - Good (buy), American IPA, Beer Reviews, Mikkeller San Diego, USA

Mikkeller San Diego Resting Brew Face

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Brewery: Mikkeller San Diego
Country: USA
ABV: 7%
Style: American IPA
Other Notes: Hop Series

Brewer Description: (from can) Double dry-hopped, New England style, India Pale Ale.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.99
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9

Intro: A 1 pint can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a MBCC 2018 stemmed taster glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with a big two finger soapy fluffy white head that had decent retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Citrusy, orange, grapefruit, passionfruit and pineapple.
Taste: Light bitterness, grapefruit rind, grapefruit juice, orange and pineapple with hints of pine, passionfruit and mango.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation and a dry finish.
Overall: A nice IPA with good aromas and flavours.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), American Triple IPA, Beer Reviews, USA, Wren House Brewing Co.

Wren House Sad Boy Wally

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Brewery: Wren House Brewing Co.
Country: USA
ABV: 10.5%
Style: American Triple IPA

Brewer Description: (from facebook can release page) Sad Boy Wally is our latest installment in the Wally Triple IPA series. Brewed with American pale malt, malted white wheat, and boiled alongside Arizona wildflower honey. Hopped and dry hopped with the most citrus forward hops we could get our hands on! Featuring Citra, Amarillo, Cascade Lupulin Pellets, and Columbus. We got a little crazy with this one and topped our previous hop usage record with a massive 9lb/bbl hopping rate. In order to highlight these huge citrus flavors we kept the abv in check at 10.5%. We’re picking up huge aromas of candied orange/grapefruit, a total citrus bomb!! Mouthfeel is super thick with almost no perceived bitterness. Absolutely our favorite Triple IPA to date!

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.76
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.6

Intro: A 1 pint can, canned on 15th March 2018. Poured into a MBCC 2018 stemmed tasting glass.
Appearance: It was a cloudy mango juice orange with a half finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly, but left some thin but nice lacing.
Aroma: Orange juice, grapefruit, mango and light candied citrus.
Taste: Tangy, bittersweet, citrus, orange rind, grapefruit peel, pine and pineapple with only a hint of bitterness.
Mouthfeel: Full bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: This was pretty good, but perhaps too purely citrusy for me to fully appreciate.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), American IPA, Beer Reviews, Magnify Brewing, USA

Magnify Maine Event

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Brewery: Magnify Brewing
Country: USA
ABV: 6.5%
Style: American IPA

Brewer Description: (from can) New England style India Pale Ale.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.72
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.7

Intro: A 1 pint can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a MBCC 2018 stemmed tasting glass.
Appearance: A hazy straw yellow colour with an almost two finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly while leaving lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: A bit light, but there’s peach sour gummy candy, papaya, light citrus peel, pine, resin and a hint of milk candy on the finish.
Taste: Light bitterness, light mango, orange peel, orange rind, grapefruit, pine and resin.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: A nice IPA, but not really ‘juicy’, which is what I enjoy in a NEIPA.