Category Archives: 3 – Indifferent (might buy, probably drink)

Evil Twin x Omnipollo Rainbownade

Brewery: Evil Twin Brewing x Omnipollo
Country: USA
ABV: 7%
Style: American IPA
Other Notes: India Pale Ale with grapefruit, passion fruit, mango, raspberry and blueberry added. Brewed for Evil Twin Brewing by Dorchester Brewing Company

Brewer Description: (from can) A refreshing drink often associated with childhood nostalgia to others a pop-cultural symbol of female emancipation. Whatever the association we teamed up with two Swedes, Henok and Karl of Omnipollo to squeeze out a tasty, tempting and deceivingly well balanced IPA with sweet and sour notes of old-fashioned memories.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.82
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A 12 fl. oz. can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: Strange colour… a hazy reddish, orange pink colour (like a dark grapefruit juice) with a two finger, very lightly pink colour head that had pretty good retention but left only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Berry notes of that hard candy kind, berry smoothie, and touches of grapefruit here and there.
Taste: Lightly sweet, sour, bitter and tangy. Mixed berries, passionfruit, strawberry, orange, grapefruit, citrus zest and pine.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: It’s quite nice, its almost there. The aroma was great, but there was just something in the taste that couldn’t quite pull all the fruit together to make it mesh. While not perfect, it still drinks easy and was refreshing.

Sand City Even Mo Mofo

Brewery: Sand City Brewing Co.
Country: USA
ABV: 8.5%
Style: American Double IPA

Brewer Description: (from can) What we’ve done here is created an amplified version of our Mofosaic IPA. This single hop Imperial IPA is brewed with English and American Pale malts and flaked oats. Hopped intensely and singularly with Mosaic hops.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.79
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.6

Intro: A 16 fl. oz. can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A lightly hazy golden orange colour with a big three finger white head that had great retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Orange, grapefruit peel, biscuit, light caramel, pine, pineapple, mango and blueberries.
Taste: Moderate sweetness, biscuit, honey, papaya, pineapple, light bitterness, mandarin peel and rind, and grass.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: It’s nice, but perhaps too sweet a Double IPA for me to fully enjoy.

Mikkeller Hop Terroir Amarillo Germany

Brewery: Mikkeller ApS
Country: Denmark
ABV: 6.8%
Style: American IPA
Other Notes: Series Hop Terroir. Brewed by Mikkeller at De Proef Brouwerij, Belgium

Brewer Description: (from can) New England Style India Pale Ale. A Mikkeller hop project with De Proef Brouwerij

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.83
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.6

Intro: A 500ml can, with a best before date of 25th April 2019. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden straw yellow orange colour with a big three finger white head that had great retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Lemon tea, lemon peel, floral, perfume-y, rosewater with hints of pine.
Taste: Lightly bitter, lemon peel, grapefruit, citrus rind, lemon tea, floral.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with moderate to low carbonation.
Overall: Not bad, perhaps a bit too floral for me, and yet, also not easy to describe, as its not really bitter like an IPA, nor is it really juicy like a NEIPA. Also body was too heavy for my liking as an IPA.

Mikkeller San Diego Windy Hill

Brewery: Mikkeller San Diego
Country: USA
ABV: American IPA
Style: 7%

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

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.88
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A one pint can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a Spiegelau IPA glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with a big three finger white head that had good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Grapefruit, citrus rind and peel, orange, mango and passion fruit.
Taste: Lightly bitter and sweet, orange peel and rind, grapefruit, melon, cantaloupe with hints of mango, grass and biscuit malt.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Quite nice and tasty, but I think I would prefer it even more if it was less sweet.

Mikkeller NYC Henry Hops

Brewery: Mikkeller Brewing NYC
Country: USA
ABV: 6.5%
Style: American IPA

Brewer Description: (from Mikkeller NYC menu) IPA.

(from beermenus.com (linked from Mikkeller NYC menu)) IPA brewed with Citra, Simcoe, and Mosaic hops.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.83
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.7

Intro: A one pint can, canned on 14th June 2018. Poured into a Spiegelau IPA glass.
Appearance: A hazy dark-ish orange colour with a big almost three finger white head that had good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Juicy, candied tropical fruit, mango, peach and apricot with hints of grapefruit pith and orange peel.
Taste: Light mango and peach, citrus bitterness, grapefruit pith and rind with a hint of pine and malt.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: A decent IPA, especially the aroma.