The Substance Ale
Bissell Brothers Brewing in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.51
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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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8.4/10
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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
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Hazy gold in color with a three finger head. Aroma is citrus fruit. Taste is also citrus fruit.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jan 2025
at 05:38
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Can from Tavour Aroma: citrus, pine, resin, cannabis, tropical fruit, floral Appearance: hazy gold with a white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness Mouthfeel: average carbonation, creamy feel, medium body, long finish Delicious
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2024
at 23:22
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16oz can from Tavour. Hazy peach colored pour, ample white foam head, steaks of lacing. Fruity aroma, stone fruit and mango, light orange. Taste is sweet and fruity, juicy, orange peel, mango, apricot. Very light bitterness, which tapers off fairly quickly.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2024
at 01:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Aromas are fresh resin hops, citrus pith and a little dry grain. Flavors are similar to nose with citrus coming out more, leans slightly sweet but with good carbonation and enough bitter to balance. Decent body and easy finish. Good drinking beer.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Mar 2023
at 01:51
7/10
Great NEIPA. New England beer perfect for candlepin bowling!
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Nov 2022
at 14:01
7/10
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Tried
from Draft
on 29 May 2022
at 16:17
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Rustico, Ballston. Hazy orange with medium white head. Smooth, soft tropical fruit. melon, citrus. Juicy. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
at
Rustico Restaurant - Ballston
on 10 Nov 2021
at 22:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 ounce can. Hazy pale gold color. Large dense white head. Sharp citrus hop aroma. Herbal, minerally notes. Dank citrus flavor rover a biscuit malt base. Notes of green onion and pine. A touch of lime zest finish.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2021
at 04:16
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very hazy golden and straw coloured body with a deep, thick, three to four centimetre tall pure white head that stays afloat nicely. Aroma of grass, citrus, hay and a ton of cleanser-like bitterness from the hops with some nice malts and a dash of flowers and grain noticeable, all with a very mild sweetness coming out as well. Medium-bodied; Very strong and pungent dry hoppy notes come through with a deep fresh-cut grass and herbal element and a grapefruity and lemony kick and a tiny bit of sweetness towards the finish. Aftertaste shows the grassy and dry characteristics with a lot of bitterness from the grapefruit, floral and grassy notes, but also some supportive malts and grain towards the end, but again, without any sweetness at all. Overall, a nice unfiltered IPA that has a great look and a super dry, grassy, perfumey and floral bite with a lot of bitterness, but this is very far removed from a typical New England IPA (despite it being from Maine of course) in terms of the profile and hop aspects that make this enjoyable, but not akin to the style. Nice to sample and a worthy beer, but not something that everyone needs to go out and try to find. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from the Department of Beer and Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 19-June-2020 for US$4,67 sampled at my house on the nineteenth anniversary of September 11th, here a few feet from the Pentagon, on 11-September-2020.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2020
at 08:10