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Latitude 48 review matching game

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Here's a little game for y'all, that I came up with while reading a recent edition of Yankee Brew News, a local periodical from the brewingnews.com family.

They have a Tasting Panel in each issue, with reviews of commercial beers, summarizing comments from a tasting panel comprised of brewers, distributors, retailers, industry writers, etc. In this particular edition, they reviewed all six beers in the Sam Adams Latitude 48 Deconstructed collection.

So, here's the game. I will write the six reviews below, and your job is to match each review to the version of Latitude 48 about which that review was written.

The six beers are:
A. East Kent Goldings
B. Hallertau Mittelfruh
C. Mosaic
D. Simcoe
E. Zeus
F. All five hops

Review 1:
Perfumy, piney, citrusy, bright and clean aroma. A good sweet malt/bitter hops balance. That bitterness carries through to the finish. Alive, zesty and bright with citrus and pine. Pleasant malt sweetness. Sticky and resiny from the hops. A hop lover's IPA.

Review 2:
A rich, strong, piney, resiny, wet cat (in the good way), melon and fruity aroma. Lots of pine comes in the taste from the hops plus bitterness. Also a lot of malt toffee sweetness and body. Floral (lavender) in the taste and into the finish.

Review 3:
Lovely aroma of pine, smoke, herbs, tea and tobacco. Rich and zesty with hop flavors: pine, resin, earth and grass. Lots of bitterness in the flavor and finish.

Review 4:
A lovely flowery, earthy, grassy, bright aroma. In the taste there's hop bitterness plus caramel malt sweetness and intense hop flavors just like the aroma. Biscuits, toffee, grains and wood detected.

Review 5:
An aroma of pine resin, rubber, apricots and cat. Huge sweetness and hop flavors in good balance. Caramel sweetness and dank, resiny, piney hops. Clean and smooth with a full body.

Review 6:
An aroma of soft hops, honeydew, woodiness, cheese, grass and flowers. A mild, biscuit taste with toasted caramel sweetness and some hops. A soft body.


Match a letter to a number, and see if you are "smarter than a taste panelist!"
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Ok, I'll play...

The six beers are:
A. East Kent Goldings
B. Hallertau Mittelfruh
C. Mosaic
D. Simcoe
E. Zeus
F. All five hops

Review 1: F. All five hops
Perfumy, piney, citrusy, bright and clean aroma. A good sweet malt/bitter hops balance. That bitterness carries through to the finish. Alive, zesty and bright with citrus and pine. Pleasant malt sweetness. Sticky and resiny from the hops. A hop lover's IPA.

Review 2: C. Mosaic
A rich, strong, piney, resiny, wet cat (in the good way), melon and fruity aroma. Lots of pine comes in the taste from the hops plus bitterness. Also a lot of malt toffee sweetness and body. Floral (lavender) in the taste and into the finish.

Review 3: E. Zeus
Lovely aroma of pine, smoke, herbs, tea and tobacco. Rich and zesty with hop flavors: pine, resin, earth and grass. Lots of bitterness in the flavor and finish.

Review 4: B. Hallertau Mittelfreu
A lovely flowery, earthy, grassy, bright aroma. In the taste there's hop bitterness plus caramel malt sweetness and intense hop flavors just like the aroma. Biscuits, toffee, grains and wood detected.

Review 5: D. Simcoe
An aroma of pine resin, rubber, apricots and cat. Huge sweetness and hop flavors in good balance. Caramel sweetness and dank, resiny, piney hops. Clean and smooth with a full body.

Review 6: A. East Kent Goldings
An aroma of soft hops, honeydew, woodiness, cheese, grass and flowers. A mild, biscuit taste with toasted caramel sweetness and some hops. A soft body.

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I think Big Papa is correct, although personally I didn't find the Mosiac verson to be as interesting as the review sounds.

My favorite beer out of the batch was the Zeus. With the Simcoe 2nd. And the real thing 3rd. I found the EKG version the least interesting.
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BigPapaG wrote:Ok, I'll play...
Good attempt. You got 2 right; some of the others were "swapped." I won't go into more specifics, to let others take a stab.

I realize these reviews aren't as descriptive as they could be, making it tough, but it's what they printed, so it's all we've got to work with.

Anyone else? Bueller?
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I'm so bad at this...I would be guessing. I'll keep watching, though.
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Last call -- any takers?
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OK, this kinda fizzled out, so here's the answer key:


Review 1: E. Zeus

Perfumy, piney, citrusy, bright and clean aroma. A good sweet malt/bitter hops balance. That bitterness carries through to the finish. Alive, zesty and bright with citrus and pine. Pleasant malt sweetness. Sticky and resiny from the hops. A hop lover's IPA.

Review 2: C. Mosaic
A rich, strong, piney, resiny, wet cat (in the good way), melon and fruity aroma. Lots of pine comes in the taste from the hops plus bitterness. Also a lot of malt toffee sweetness and body. Floral (lavender) in the taste and into the finish.

Review 3: F. All five hops
Lovely aroma of pine, smoke, herbs, tea and tobacco. Rich and zesty with hop flavors: pine, resin, earth and grass. Lots of bitterness in the flavor and finish.

Review 4: A. East Kent Goldings
A lovely flowery, earthy, grassy, bright aroma. In the taste there's hop bitterness plus caramel malt sweetness and intense hop flavors just like the aroma. Biscuits, toffee, grains and wood detected.

Review 5: D. Simcoe
An aroma of pine resin, rubber, apricots and cat. Huge sweetness and hop flavors in good balance. Caramel sweetness and dank, resiny, piney hops. Clean and smooth with a full body.

Review 6: B. Hallertau Mittelfruh
An aroma of soft hops, honeydew, woodiness, cheese, grass and flowers. A mild, biscuit taste with toasted caramel sweetness and some hops. A soft body.
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:jumpy: I win!



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Review 3: F. All five hops
Lovely aroma of pine, smoke, herbs, tea and tobacco. Rich and zesty with hop flavors: pine, resin, earth and grass. Lots of bitterness in the flavor and finish.
This is what made me unable to decipher what the mixup could have been in BigPapa's list. Where is the citrus? Where is the floral and candy like fruit notes? It is in there in the real product...

This sounds more like the CTZ version (which I liked the best actually). Or Apollo hops if you add cannabis to the list. (I have become a fan of Apollo hops).

I think the reviewer was on crack (or cannabis) and BigPapaG nailed it LOL.
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Could be that the person who distilled/transcribed the panel's comments got 'em mixed up, who knows.
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Thanks CC and Mash...

This was cool, wish more people had given it a go...

Remember too, whenever organoleptic interpretation is in play, subjectivity creeps in and crashes the party, so who knows...

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Been so busy this year my brewing is really hurting.

I bought the Latitude 48 Deconstruction 12pack, man after drinking the Simcoe one I think I need to make a Simcoe SMASH!

By far was my favorite of the set
CyberCop Brewery
LBK #1
LBK #2 -
LBK #3 (GF)
LBK #4 -
Pilot Keg

Drinking:
The Jen Stout
Belgian Dubbel
Blueberry Pomegranate Mead
Linda's Hard Cider
Lemon Wine (Hard Lemonade)
RCE - Bock

Conditioning:
DoppelWine
Blueberry Mead
NW3C-IPA
Brew #62 Lawn-Mower Pilsner
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I did a Simcoe/Munich SMaSH some time ago and it was awesome. Mashed low for a long time, and used Notty at 57-59 degrees.

I personally like 100% Simcoe and 100% CTZ beers, SMaSH or not.
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