Bissell Brothers Brewing The Substance Ale

The Substance Ale

 

Bissell Brothers Brewing in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
Score
7.51
ABV: 6.6% IBU: 80 Ticks: 111
Our precious flagship. Brightly dank and designed to be just mysterious enough.. Hopped with Falconer’s Flight, Centennial, Apollo, Chinook, and Simcoe.
 

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Poured from a can dated 12/09/25 into a willi becher pint glass

Pours a translucent gold with 2 fingers of white foam head that settles leaving a good amount of sticky lacing

The aroma is grapefruit, orange zest, pine and slightly floral

The flavor is sweet citrus to bitter citrus peel and pine. Nice balance between the bitter and sweet

The Substance has a light to medium body leaning more towards the light end. Has prickly carbonation but the dryness and balanced bitterness make it super drinkable.

Overall this is an excellent classic example of neipa. It's not the modern sweet juice bomb but a well balanced super drinkable hoppy IPA. I'd love to try this one more fresh some time.

Tried from Can from The Craft Beer Center at East Branch Organics on 12 Mar 2026 at 03:14


8.2

Tried from Draft on 17 Jan 2026 at 16:04


8

Hoppy and fruity, more on the dry side. Citrus with some dry grass, smooth, very nice.

Tried on 12 Sep 2025 at 14:49


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Thanks omhper! Slightly hazy golden colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, fruity, some spruce and mild nectary tones. Flavour is floral, spruce and mild mild nectary and some pineapple tones. Nice aloe veraish finish.

Tried from Can on 04 Aug 2025 at 16:09


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Utseende: Gulbrun.
Lukt: Citrus, honning.
Smak: Citrus, honning, vassen avslutning.
Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum.
Medium: Rating:8-6-6-6-6=6.3, Draft@100ml, ABV@6.6%, Når@2025.06.14.
Hvor: DGB Invitational 2025
Navn: The Substance Ale
Stil: IPA - NEW ENGLAND / HAZY
Bryggeri: Bissell Brothers Brewing

Tried from Draft on 14 Jun 2025 at 14:52


7

Canned. Poured a clouded yellow. Juicy grapefruit tropical notes and some malt. Pretty good

Tried from Can on 20 May 2025 at 01:42


5.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5

Canned, from Systembolaget. Hazy golden, mid sized head. Aroma of dried apricots. Mid sweet with medium body and clean mouthfeel. Fairly subtle flavour of dried apricots and mild citrus on clean, fruity malt. Low bitterness.

Tried from Can from Systembolaget Beställningssortiment on 16 May 2025 at 19:04


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Fasadevaskprosjektet er endelig avsluttet, og det må naturligvis feires! 0,473 boks fra hjelpemiddelsentralen på Kvaddå: lett uklar gylden med fint skum som varer. Lett pepret aroma og smak med steinfrukter, citrus og de oglibatoriske tropiske frukter. God maltsmak og god bedring for knær og håndledd (neste år overlater jeg jobben til proffene!). Saftig avslutning med mersmak, men de lokale helter er fortsatt best.

Tried from Can from Vinmonopolet Sandnes, Kvadrat on 17 Apr 2025 at 16:07


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Shaker pint draft after a show at TD Garden at Tavern in the Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The pour is a hazed golden with a well formed white head. The aroma is resin, citrus peel, fruit sweet and a bit of cereal grain below. The taste is a nice blend of the resin, citrus fruit hops and the clean cracker malt base. The palate is medium bodied, with soft natural carbonation and a clean, dry, resin, finish.

Tried from Draft on 19 Mar 2025 at 20:04


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

From tap at Tørst, Brooklyn. Juicy fruity hop aroma with tropical notes, mango, passion fruit, citrus, orange, some oniony dankness, oats, touch of pine. Flavour is mild sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium. Rich and balanced, lovely sweetish juice aroma. Substantial, indeed.

Tried from Draft on 03 Feb 2025 at 14:30