Hatch? A belated Easter review perhaps. You can’t be late for Easter, people will get cross.* This brew has hatched a scrawny plucked rooster with a comb already in place. Maybe the hatchery is near a hydro line or a nuclear power plant? Wrong, this brew is hatched from the Picton sandbanks of legend, to slake our thirst. Slake Brewery out of Picton, to be precise. I haven’t heard the word slake much these days but it seems to be a very appropriate brewery name.**
A bright (in the UK they would say brilliant) lemon yellow pour, and an albumen white head. A malt hop mix in the aroma, a bit disconcerting, not an attractive olfactoral offering. That aroma is not very pleasant, it needs a beer deodorant or froth mint or something.
Taste is a different matter as it is lemony fruity mild hop fizz no real bite or zing. No oranges, only lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s.*** A nice mild lemony style session IPA or mild pale ale. I would usually prefer a citrus tropical but the lemon works ok. The big swig test resulted in ……. a big swig. What did you expect?
Mild lemony pale ale, refreshing and tasty, once you get past the funky in not a good way aroma.
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