Straight Outta the Laboratory
Equilibrium Brewery in Middletown, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Rotating|
Score
7.75
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We love science and we have been feverishly working in the lab to bring you our most recent achievements. We started with the Straight Outta Middletown grain bill, supersized the citra portion, applied our latest and greatest technology (think of the EQ juice in raining belma and last batch of MC²) and ended up with January Fluctuation on steroids with the most amount of EQ juice to date.
Straight Outta The Laboratory pours a hazy bright tangerine and has aromas of freshly squeezed citrus, lime, grapefruit, and a tropical character that makes actual tropical fruit green with envy. The flavor is explosive with notes of bright tropical orange juice, mango smoothie, and dank grass. It’s resinous and chewy with an escalating brightness and a just a touch of residual sweetness balanced by a soft bitterness. We are particularly proud of this beer as it’s the culmination of months and months of hard work (since January Fluctuation).
Straight Outta The Laboratory pours a hazy bright tangerine and has aromas of freshly squeezed citrus, lime, grapefruit, and a tropical character that makes actual tropical fruit green with envy. The flavor is explosive with notes of bright tropical orange juice, mango smoothie, and dank grass. It’s resinous and chewy with an escalating brightness and a just a touch of residual sweetness balanced by a soft bitterness. We are particularly proud of this beer as it’s the culmination of months and months of hard work (since January Fluctuation).
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Draught at The Well, Brooklyn tap: pours deep orange murk with white head. Aroma is loads of citrus, tropical fruit, sugar. Taste is large, fruity, lightly bitter. Large body. Mellow aftertaste. Complex and pretty big.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Nov 2018
at 01:49
9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
On tap at the Well. Pours hazy bright yellow. Lime peel, grapefruit, elderflower, orange, tangelo, apricot, touch of soapy yuzu type citrus, syrupy bitter finish. Gorgeous full and soft body. This is as close I've come to my perfect hazy DIPA. Sensational.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Nov 2018
at 22:31
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pours a very hazy, pineapple-banana yellow, with mid-sized, lasting cap of head. Aroma has a huge bouquet of tropical and citrus fruits, some grass, some floral notes. Flavor is citrusy and grassy, with a lot of pine/spruce hop bite. For such a high ABV, this beer is noticeably WITHOUT a strong boozy flavor or alcohol burn. It's very smooth and lightly sweet and soft and quite tasty. More experiments like this one, please!
Tried
on 06 Nov 2018
at 23:04
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draught at Row 34, 10/27/18.
Soupy, drab peach. White head sticks to edges.
Heavily yeasty nose with big fruit esters and dough and biscuit. Somewhat floral and spicy notes are there, but it's surprisingly low on aromatics. Though it is icy-cold on draught. With warming, tangerine, honey and light, dank, fresh hop notes give general yellow and citrus fruit character. Is this 10.2%?? Wow, smells like 7 or at most 8.
What the nose lacks in strength, the flavor makes up for in sheer elegance and balance. Stupidly drinkable for its size with no resin or booze at all. Tons of juicy watermelon, nectarine, mango and papaya with light bitterness and great attenuation. Yet it's still soft and malty with engaging carbonation. Kind of what I would imagine an amped of version of Very Green to be. Aroma continues to come around with continued warming and it's not an issue with low aroma strength; rather the beer is just so mild for its size, but in the best way possible. Lingering spiciness, light honey-like malt, watermelon-and-bubble-gum ester. Lovely. Maybe the best TIPA I've had.
Soupy, drab peach. White head sticks to edges.
Heavily yeasty nose with big fruit esters and dough and biscuit. Somewhat floral and spicy notes are there, but it's surprisingly low on aromatics. Though it is icy-cold on draught. With warming, tangerine, honey and light, dank, fresh hop notes give general yellow and citrus fruit character. Is this 10.2%?? Wow, smells like 7 or at most 8.
What the nose lacks in strength, the flavor makes up for in sheer elegance and balance. Stupidly drinkable for its size with no resin or booze at all. Tons of juicy watermelon, nectarine, mango and papaya with light bitterness and great attenuation. Yet it's still soft and malty with engaging carbonation. Kind of what I would imagine an amped of version of Very Green to be. Aroma continues to come around with continued warming and it's not an issue with low aroma strength; rather the beer is just so mild for its size, but in the best way possible. Lingering spiciness, light honey-like malt, watermelon-and-bubble-gum ester. Lovely. Maybe the best TIPA I've had.
Tried
on 27 Oct 2018
at 16:53