Flying Monkeys Smashbomb Atomic IPA - Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery

smakawhat

Maryland

3.95/5  rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Poured from the bottle into a sam adams pint glass. No obvious bottle dating.

A slightly opaque orange amber, good continual linear rising pinhead carbonation. Head is off whie and clumps and hangs like crazy. Islands of head, crazy lacing all over.

Citrus an tropical hop front, good orange and mango like nose. Clean, and wet possibly. But very enjoyable.

Palate brings good hop forward and malt richness. Pine angle on the finish with some drying grapefruit in the mid palate. Light sweetness and coating in the palate, but slightly wet also. Lingering great balance of light brown sugar and sweetness, malt angle a little buried, but the hop front on this is so well done.

Overall, real solid, nicely done.

Serving type: bottle

09-29-2012 22:53:56 | More by smakawhat

cam477

Newfoundland (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev -6.5%

06-20-2013 02:01:06 | More by cam477

yabud

Ontario (Canada)

4/5  rDev -0.2%

06-11-2013 20:27:00 | More by yabud

thampel09

New Jersey

4.25/5  rDev +6%

05-31-2013 03:52:18 | More by thampel09

RonnieRotten

Michigan

2/5  rDev -50.1%

05-29-2013 02:06:22 | More by RonnieRotten

Kmat10

Alberta (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev -6.5%

05-27-2013 16:29:03 | More by Kmat10

JG_McNaulty

Ontario (Canada)

4/5  rDev -0.2%

05-15-2013 13:57:08 | More by JG_McNaulty

Caudalie

Quebec (Canada)

4/5  rDev -0.2%

05-10-2013 16:59:42 | More by Caudalie

ericj551

British Columbia (Canada)

3.5/5  rDev -12.7%

05-07-2013 04:19:56 | More by ericj551

GoHabsGo

Ontario (Canada)

4/5  rDev -0.2%

05-03-2013 23:56:02 | More by GoHabsGo

Mack

Quebec (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev -6.5%

04-28-2013 11:53:37 | More by Mack

Yoozeo

Ontario (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev -6.5%

04-24-2013 17:40:00 | More by Yoozeo

AugustusRex

Ontario (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev -6.5%

04-12-2013 14:53:47 | More by AugustusRex

4ster

Quebec (Canada)

3.41/5  rDev -15%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5

Poured into a tulip glass. Bottled Jan.9 2013.

A: Cloudy, burnt Amber with bubbles. Decent head on pour, leaves a nice lacing behind on top.

S: Light on the nose, light citrus and malts, along with some musty, woody hops perhaps... hard to say exactly. Bit bready as it warms up...

T: Not overly malty, citrus hop profile as it moves over your tongue, but then finishes quite bitter, lots of bitter rind and more musty, earthy/woody hops (not piney though)... kind of funky aftertaste...

M: Med-Light carbonation, fairly balanced, would say it leans more to the refreshing, not really all that sticky or dry... actually feels a bit light...

O: After reading a lot of other reviews it is hard to imagine this being the same beer... not sure if it's me, the beer, or a case of reviewer propagation... For starters I won't say it is a bad beer like the previous reviewer, just different than other IPA's out there (I just had the two Muskoka Mad Tom's earlier this week)...that being said, compared to past reviews I find this a lot less citrus/tropical than others and really musty...which as far as I know is not a typical profile of the Citra Hop... I will hold off on forming any definitive opinion until I see more people review this around my brew date on the bottle (please people, if you can, add your bottling dates! :) ... perhaps there was something off with this batch.... If I try it again or more fresh I will update the review to reflect this... If this is how it is suppose to taste I would not say I'm a huge fan... and I enjoy a good bitter beer as much as the next hop head...

Serving type: bottle

04-07-2013 00:40:06 | More by 4ster

hoptailbrewery

Ontario (Canada)

4.75/5  rDev +18.5%

04-05-2013 15:41:20 | More by hoptailbrewery

H8B8

Ontario (Canada)

4.75/5  rDev +18.5%

04-04-2013 13:18:57 | More by H8B8

FEUO

Ontario (Canada)

3.5/5  rDev -12.7%

03-24-2013 16:12:19 | More by FEUO

Xithyl

Ontario (Canada)

4/5  rDev -0.2%

03-23-2013 20:31:53 | More by Xithyl

MaddDaddy

Alberta (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev -6.5%

03-17-2013 23:07:26 | More by MaddDaddy

timiskin

Ontario (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev -6.5%

03-12-2013 19:12:37 | More by timiskin

IanSpindler

Alberta (Canada)

4/5  rDev -0.2%

03-11-2013 19:05:33 | More by IanSpindler

evenflow82

1.58/5  rDev -60.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

I absolutely love IPAs. the crispness, the bitterness. it's a real drinkers beer.

This is a failure of epic proportions. straight out of the fridge, ice cold...that's about the best part. once it hits your tongue and you get that fermented sock flavour splashing over your taste buds, you pull back, force yourself to swallow then exclaim "WTF was that??"

you think maybe it's just a lingering after taste from something you ate, so you try again....nope it's actually worse on the second mouthful.

maybe it's me, you think.
so you give one to your friend and his response is an enthusiastic, "dude that's F**king terrible"

I look into the glass...something must be wrong. it's supposed to be a pale, but it's more of an amber, far too dark to be what's reported.

a week later you fish bottle #3 out of the pack and try again. nope, same effect. in desperation you steal one of your wife's limes from the pile she's using for her coronas...one's not enough, after you've jammed four down the neck of the bottle it starts to become palatable....but four?? it's taken almost half a friggin lime to be palatable? what's wrong here? for a man who can chug tallboys of murphy's or guiness without blinking to be defeated by an IPA is impossible.

last ditch effort, beer barbecue sauce!!!!

worst goddamn barbecue sauce in existence.

epic fail

Serving type: bottle

02-26-2013 14:05:45 | More by evenflow82

lgmol

Nova Scotia (Canada)

3.75/5  rDev -6.5%

02-24-2013 19:32:47 | More by lgmol

Molson2000

Ontario (Canada)

4.25/5  rDev +6%

02-20-2013 23:44:42 | More by Molson2000

JMBSH

Colorado

4/5  rDev -0.2%

02-18-2013 04:54:12 | More by JMBSH