The Widow
Belleflower Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Messorem BracitoriumIPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Special
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Score
7.56
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Hazy Double IPA dry hopped with Ella, El Dorado, and Riwaka. Crack the can and you’re hit with mango, cantaloupe, and lush tropical fruit. First sip brings strawberry, tropical fruit, and cotton candy grapes 🍓🥭🍇.
The Widow is the Queen of Swords. Forged through loss, fiercely independent, sharp, and fully self realized. Her power comes from surviving
The Widow is the Queen of Swords. Forged through loss, fiercely independent, sharp, and fully self realized. Her power comes from surviving
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from trade with CLW--thanks, Chris! Cloudy, light yellow, tons of sparkle, massive head (did I drop this?), excellent retention, splotchy soapy lacing. Aroma is strong citrus, lychee, candied fruit. Taste is strong tropical fruit, citrus, candied fruit. Smooth, thin, frothy texture, soft carbonation, fruity finish with late dry yeast and mild bitterness. Lychee in aroma and tropical fruit in taste make this quite interesting!
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jun 2026
at 02:04
8.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8
16 oz can from The City, Sanford, ME. Strong aroma of tangerine, lime, and white grape. Geez wow the fruit pops in this bad boy. Flavor has a mango / tangerine combo up front with a soft bready malt backbone. What I love most is the long lingering white grape in the finish. Soft bitterness to balance the fruit. Awesome!
Tried
from Can
on 06 May 2026
at 21:17
8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Undated can (ca. early March 2026), drunk 4/26/26. Compliments of CLW. Thanks, Chris!
Poured this one a little colder than usual so the aroma is a bit muted, but I'm getting some really round, tropical notes with white wine, tangelo, lychee and kumquat. Really soft, but quite aromatic with seemingly pillowy malts showing dainty honey-like notes. No resin, alcohol, weird yeast, excess sugar, etc...
Damn that's nice! When Belleflower is on, they are ON and Messorem is almost always on with their NEIPAs. This one has the pillowy-soft malt of Messorem and the all-around polished execution of them, with Belleflower's above-average bitterness for the style. Juicy with a plethora of white wine and tropical fruit notes. Both breweries usually exhibit a lot of maltiness, as they do here, so it can get a bit burly and rich at times, but the flavors are exquisite and the the slightly higher bitterness makes it that much more drinkable.
Poured this one a little colder than usual so the aroma is a bit muted, but I'm getting some really round, tropical notes with white wine, tangelo, lychee and kumquat. Really soft, but quite aromatic with seemingly pillowy malts showing dainty honey-like notes. No resin, alcohol, weird yeast, excess sugar, etc...
Damn that's nice! When Belleflower is on, they are ON and Messorem is almost always on with their NEIPAs. This one has the pillowy-soft malt of Messorem and the all-around polished execution of them, with Belleflower's above-average bitterness for the style. Juicy with a plethora of white wine and tropical fruit notes. Both breweries usually exhibit a lot of maltiness, as they do here, so it can get a bit burly and rich at times, but the flavors are exquisite and the the slightly higher bitterness makes it that much more drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2026
at 20:09