Harpoon The Long Thaw White IPA
"Spring" in New England is fickle,but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy it!Whatever the thermometer says,enjoy The Long Thaw.
3.5
205 reviews
Boston, United States
Community reviews
This is a re-rate. I poured it from the bottle into a pint glass. It poured a hazy golden with a decent white head and lacing. The aroma was skunky with hints of grapefruit, biscuit, and hops. The skunkiness was strong. The taste was grapefruit, biscuit and hops. The taste had a skunky hint to it as well. The expiration date hadn’t passed yet, but this didn’t taste fresh. It had potential.
Slightly cloudy golden with a thin Rocky white head. Gorgeous aroma of pine and resinous floral tones mix with white wheat and coriander and white peppercorn. Full and wonderfully complex hoppy tone of floral and slightly orange rind-ish bites mix with white Belgian wheat, loads of coriander, a little pepper, and more American hoppiness for a full robust hoppy and balanced hitter finish. Wonderfully complex.
Bottle - Pours a clear golden/yellow with a typical head. Citrus, mango, and pine aromas. Refreshing balance of aromas with a bitter finish.
Charakter troch jak blonde, lekko owocowe. Opalizujące. Świetna piana. Delikatna guma balonowa w IPA. Mokry karton w posmaku. Brak goryczki.
Pours a clear pale yellow color with aroma of grain, citrus, and pine. Citrus flavor with pepper, pine, toasted malt, and hint of hops. Decent beer.
bottle @ Party Town / Florence KY --- Clear medium amber, good 1" frothy white head, bands of lace. Taste is malt that is overcome by medium hops, wiping out all the malt. Nice IPA, but definitely standard issue.
Old rating. Cloudy gold pour. Wheaty, citrusy, some pepper, piney bitter finish. Pretty solid, but unspectacular IPA.
On tap The Royal Pig Pub & Kitchen. Aroma: Wheat, citrus, floral. App: slightly hazy golden with small white head and some lacing. Taste and palate: medium body, crisp medium bitter finish, average carbonation. Overall: good refreshing white IPA on this hot weather day in Fort Lauderdale.
12oz bottle. Pours a bright gold with a nice soapy head of heterogeneous bubbles. Some nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is really nice, fruity, tart, hops. Flavors are sweet, bright, fresh, and clean. Great hop character that really surprised me. Very nice and something I could drink a lot of.
Cask at JDW WIQ, London. It pours a hazy light golden color with a small white head. Aroma is grassy and piney, hoppy and lightly grainy. Taste has little yeasty pepper, caramel sweet, bitter grass an crispy lemon and earth. Light bodied with soft carbonation. Overall, ok
Bottle pour. Aroma of hops and pepper. Golden with lacing white head. Hops mostly floral with pine. Kinda light on hops for an American IPA. Also citrus, pepper and sweet malt. Good drinkability. Nice brew. Will enjoy this again on a warmer day.
A refreshing IPA, but nothing outstanding. I would have liked a bit more of the wheat to come through and for being "white" it’s still pretty deep gold. Light citrus and grapefruit notes, and a bit of a metallic ting.
Golden colour. Aroma a bit soapy. Smooth. Has an interesting tang. I miss some hoppiness.
Bottle from Wegman’s Collegeville. Pours bright gold with 1-finger fizzy white head. Floral, bitter, piney nose, even got mild rauch in the nose. Tastes resiny, very hoppy, bitter, decent malt balance. Solid IPA.
12oz bottle from Xroads. Poured a clear light rusty bronze with an average sized foamy bright white head. Aroma of old citrus, slight bubblegum, belgian yeast, dry breads, dry toast. Medium body, slightly dry on the finish, average carbonation, nothing special. Aroma is slightly better but not enough to make any big difference on the overall, notes of older citrus, lime rind, bubblegum, Belgian yeast and some crumb from bread.
Pours a golden color with a white head. A citrus and pine aroma. Flavor includes pine and some hop bitterness.
Bottle, aroma is citrus and pale malts, taste is similar with a light body and a dry light bitter finish, more like a session IPA
Tap at the Assembly Rooms, Solihull. Poured a clear medium amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is light hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a dry mineral, malt, hop bitter, light toothpaste palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied witn soft carbonation.
Pours clear gold with a thin white head. Hoppy in a juicy, piney kind of way. Lightly bitter.
Aroma: Grainy Malts, Mildly Floral, Mild Tropical Fruit
Appearance: Golden Straw Hue, Passes Lots of Light, White Head Ring, Decent Lacing
Taste: Tropical Fruit, Mildly Floral, Mildly Malty
Mouthfeel: Decent Carbonation, Medium Bodied, Mildly Drying, Mildly Bitter
Tap at olivers. Pours clear blonde. Ok white head. Smell is fresh. Malty. Taste is bitter. Malty, sweet. Bit sugary. Very nice though
Good IPA. Simple and very drinkable. Amber color , medium-sized white head. Aroma of tropical fruits , mashed with malt. Grapefruit and malt , with moderate bitterness in taste. The easy to drink beer.
Clear gold body and a cloud white head that lingers nicely. Mild citrus pine aroma. Mellow citrus pine hop taste. Mild bitterness. Very drinkable and refreshing.
12oz bottle (Courtesy of Headbanger) poured into a Tulip at 41°. Color is golden yellow with a slight haze. Carbonation is good making a small white head. Aroma is hops, orange and spice. It has a lighter body with a smooth somewhat foamy mouth feel. Flavor is orange, white pepper and spicy hops. After taste gives a nice bitterness and the spice lingers a bit. Overall its an easy drinking brew with fresh balanced flavors.
Transfer from BA review on 2-9-14-
Poured from growler into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a clear golden amber color with a one finger of a foamy white head composed of big carbonation bubbles. The head fades over about a 2 min time period to leave a lighter level of bubbly lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is a nice mix of sweet fruit smells with a good showing of hop aromas. The sweeter fruit is mostly of a tropical fruit nature with tons of papaya, mango and tangerine along with some hints of pineapple. The hop aromas are heavies of pine and grapefruit with a hint of grass in the background. With a bit of a doughy aroma mixing with the rest, the brew has a very nice smelling nature.
Taste –The taste begins with a crisper and very lightly fruit sweetened bready taste. At the front of the flavor is a lighter grapefruit hop as well. The sweet that is present upfront is mostly of the tropical fruits that were in the nose, with these flavors growing weaker as the taste moves on to the end. At the same time the bready flavor, gets crisper in nature with it taking on a more cracker like flavor. The grapefruit hop remains throughout the taste, never getting too potent. It is joined by some pine and a moderately stronger earthy hop flavor more toward the middle to the end. With the drying out of the sweetness, the increase in hop, and the more cracker like flavor transition, one is left with a crisp and slightly drier medium strength IPA flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the thinner side with a carbonation level that is average. While the thinner body isn’t great for the hop, it does accentuate the very crisp and dry tastes of the brew, so overall with the medium carbonation the feel is pretty good.
Overall – A crisp and drier IPA, that is on the more refreshing side. Overall a decent IPA.
surprised this scored so high with other people. I thought it was a little thin. Flavor isn’t balanced as well as it could be. I’d pass on this one.
Hazy dark gold with lasting thin lacy foamy white head; aroma is spicy hoppy; Flava nicely balanced hop and spice; feels light decent fizzy foam; finishes mildly dry and hints if spice/herbs
Bottle.
A- Citrus, piney, orange, subtle spice.
A- Yellow color, hazy liquid, white head.
T- Piney, bitter, citrus, spices, spruce.
P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, hoppy meaty finish.
O- Had it about a month after best by date so naturally it wasn’t optimal. Quite hoppy and good amounts of citrus with a little spice. The finish had a little bit of a meaty flavor but it wasn’t bad. I wanted to love this but only ended up liking it. All in all, a decent beer.
Appearance: Pours a cloudy pastel yellow with a dense sudsy head that falls to a 1/4 cap.
Aroma: Banana, floral hops, spiced cookie.
Taste: Wheat ale qualities: sour dough, banana. Modest but noticeable hop spice. All and all not very bitter at all. Finishes earthy.
Mouthfeel: Full bodied, lively carbonation.
Overall: Pretty drinkable, more like a wheat beer than an IPA. Very balanced and a great candidate for a gateway beer or a beer to pair with food.
12oz bottle 7/18/14 (Extra Value Liquor-Naperville)-42° in Shaker Glass-Pours a hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma of hops and citrus. Taste of citrus, hops, malt, grains, and grass. This medium bodied brew is well balanced and goes down smoothly.