Sunken Opal
Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Troon BrewingIPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular
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Score
6.77
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We didn’t want to mail off a collab BA stout with Troon without offering something for the hop trawlers. If you follow their hoppy ale work, you know these aren’t timid profiles.
Home Run Derby recipe construction has lots of wheat and oats plowed under with boxes and boxes of gold rush hops (Citra Dynaboost, Riwaka, Nectaron, Strata CGX) at the end of the brew day to ward off early aught IBUs. The cellar bugs churned through things and landed us right where we’d hoped – 9%, above the equatorial divide of casual enjoyment and into a Wrath of Rakshasa coaster pint.
Dank, grassy, herbaceous, dyno-diesel aromas lay back to a tropical fruit explosion that rounds for an overall full-fat whole haze cream.
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Draught @ the taproom, Chicago IL (Dec 2025). Hazy lemon yellow with a foamy light beige head, faint unripe mangi aroma, adequate carbonation, mildly bitter unripe mango-citrus peel taste, faint pinet flavor, thin body, long finish. Decent NEDIPA with well covered ABV.
Tried
from Draft
at
Half Acre Beer Company & Taproom
on 08 Feb 2026
at 01:54