Bengali Tiger - Sixpoint Brewery

farrago

New Jersey

4.1/5  rDev +3.8%
look: 3 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Easily pours three fingers of loosely knit orange cream colored foam, turns lacy and dimpled as it dissolves, very delicate, only a few random splotches for lacing. The liquid is a base orange bronze color of light haziness, more yellow than brown or red for secondary tint, close to no visible bubbles, what is there is miniscule. The nose is straight down the middle classic IPA featuring grapefruit, tangerine citrus, pine sap, flowers, baguette to biscuit breadiness, slightly more pepper bite than chocolate softness, the fruit scents range from peach and apricot to mango and pineapple, overall pulls back from punching too hard. Medium-bodied with a softish style carbonation, this helps it sink in and cling as it also tends to the drier end of the spectrum, becoming more bitter near the finish as well, before that has a certain oiliness to it. Metallic earthiness with more tart zest in the white grapefruit to mandarin orange citrus, here clove and cumin spice take precedence over any bread, yeast or florality. The pine element fights hard for space, though. While tropical per se, the lack of juiciness in the papaya, mango, pineapple, nectarine fruit flavors has the fruit downplayed across the board. Nicely balanced and not trying to make some bold statement, content to humbly stay within the parameters of the category. If you like drier beers, even close to sessionable.

Serving type: can

10-02-2012 22:22:58 | More by farrago

LeahM

New York

4/5  rDev +1.3%

05-20-2013 19:06:43 | More by LeahM

Sturmthis

Ohio

3.75/5  rDev -5.1%

05-20-2013 18:55:12 | More by Sturmthis

earlholman

District of Columbia

4/5  rDev +1.3%

05-20-2013 14:38:29 | More by earlholman

jburd19

Ohio

4.25/5  rDev +7.6%

05-20-2013 03:49:39 | More by jburd19

jbeervt

Vermont

3.5/5  rDev -11.4%

05-19-2013 16:44:15 | More by jbeervt

alex_hart

Massachusetts

3.5/5  rDev -11.4%

05-19-2013 02:22:55 | More by alex_hart

Photekut

Azerbaijan

3.75/5  rDev -5.1%

05-19-2013 01:18:52 | More by Photekut

jl28r1

Texas

4/5  rDev +1.3%

05-18-2013 16:51:43 | More by jl28r1

DJB2231

Delaware

4.75/5  rDev +20.3%

05-18-2013 12:23:04 | More by DJB2231

Lob

North Carolina

3.5/5  rDev -11.4%

05-18-2013 02:27:53 | More by Lob

Teddy-Pickles

Connecticut

4.25/5  rDev +7.6%

05-15-2013 22:47:30 | More by Teddy-Pickles

tnbeatty

Vermont

4.75/5  rDev +20.3%

05-15-2013 13:37:45 | More by tnbeatty

jealmanzar

New York

4.5/5  rDev +13.9%

05-14-2013 18:26:28 | More by jealmanzar

drummermattie02

Texas

3.5/5  rDev -11.4%

05-14-2013 18:14:13 | More by drummermattie02

Bustersuess

New York

4.25/5  rDev +7.6%

05-14-2013 17:36:40 | More by Bustersuess

wesvt

Vermont

4/5  rDev +1.3%

05-13-2013 22:29:08 | More by wesvt

patpbr

Ohio

4.16/5  rDev +5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

16 oz can poured into a mason jar
A - Deep orange with an agressive head
S - Citrus and pine hops
T - like the smell citrus hops, pine, grapefruit and a bit fruity
M - Medium body and high carbination, but easy to drink
O - I have overlooked six point, will be trying more now.

Serving type: bottle

05-13-2013 20:38:16 | More by patpbr

RaulMondesi

California

3.64/5  rDev -7.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75

What in the Sam Hill? What in the same hill?... Raul is just done doggone perplexed. What is this bad boi?

Right when I popped the can, it smelled like Osirus. Raul was all stoked. But the flavor... Raul is like, "UHH!" But Raul is also like, "huh?" It's good like Robert DeNiro, but it's also bad like Robert DeNiro. Well, maybe not "bad," but, "huh?"

Try it like a tootsie pop my children, because if not, you may never know.

Serving type: can

05-13-2013 01:21:31 | More by RaulMondesi

mikeburd1128

New Jersey

4/5  rDev +1.3%

05-12-2013 18:07:57 | More by mikeburd1128

Neorebel

New Jersey

3.91/5  rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

Bengali Tiger pours a burnt-orange hue, with a mountainous, off-white head of froth. The head on this beast billows out so much during a power pour you'd think it was a Belgian Tripel. Great retention, too. The aroma was nice and zesty , consisting mostly of grapefruit. Flavor wise, there was a nice lemon & pine hop taste that was fairly straight forward. The finish gave me an orange bitterness, which I liked. This is a very light beer, and I did not get much of a malt backbone coming through at all, despite my expectations. Overall, the name's misleading, this is more of a tame, feminine type of beer for a summer's day. Conveniently in a can!

Serving type: can

05-12-2013 16:01:58 | More by Neorebel

willth

Michigan

1.85/5  rDev -53.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2

Was really looking forward to this. This was my first Sixpoint Beer. Cracked it open and had it in a 16oz snifter. First beer of the night so no influence on my palate.

Appearance: Very nice straw/orange color. Noticed a lot of floating sediements, a little more then I am use to but in line with most non filtered ipa's.

Smell: First thing I smelled was the hops then the citrus. Not quite a grapefruit smell but along those lines.Then the pine needles exploded

Taste: This is where things went bad. I am not sure if it was a bad can (date was fine) but it tasted like a belgian ipa that finished with a weird sour hop note. For it being 62ibu i was thinking it would have a hoppier taste. The malt was a touch over powering. Not a very balanced ipa.

Mouthfeel: Malty but seemed under carbinated.

Overall: I hate dumping beer but i drank about 4 ounces and just couldn't drink anymore.
It just wasn't my thing where i love ipa's. Next im going to try Resin and hope thay is better then this.

Serving type: can

05-12-2013 01:39:42 | More by willth

i080054

Massachusetts

4.25/5  rDev +7.6%

05-12-2013 01:11:09 | More by i080054

Lagerhouserules

New York

4/5  rDev +1.3%

05-11-2013 22:44:50 | More by Lagerhouserules

BeastLU

Virginia

4.25/5  rDev +7.6%

05-11-2013 15:59:39 | More by BeastLU