Latitude 48 review matching game
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:52 pm
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!"
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!"
I win!