Tree House Brewing Company Beginner's Mind

Beginner's Mind

 

Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular Out of Production
Score
7.42
ABV: 8.2% IBU: - Ticks: 17
The original concept for Beginner’s Mind originally came to us in early 2014 prior to the Extreme Beer Festival. The concept for that beer ultimately turned into Juice Machine, but the idea of approaching our craft with a Beginner’s Mind has stayed with us since. To that end, we are pleased to finally introduce a beer that was originally dreamed up over six years ago and has haunted our headspace since. Beginner’s Mind is a Tree House Double IPA brewed with a careful and unique-to-us selection of American & Australian hops. Carving out a distinctive place in our line-up, it pours an opaque orange color in the glass and tastes of ripe summer melon, tropical fruit salad, clementine juice, and mango ice cream. This beer has swagger - You won’t find anything else like it.

Beginner’s Mind is a mindset we subscribe to that requires humility by engaging familiar problems with openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions as if we were complete beginners. This mindset has enabled us to constantly improve and retain a childhood sense of awe and wonder with our work. It is critical to who we are, and who we wish to become - Within a defined framework, each successive batch of Beginner’s Mind will aggressively challenge our notions of what works and what doesn’t, casting aside complacency in the name of risk and progress. We hope you enjoy the journey as much as we do!
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Canned 12/8/21, drunk 2/6/22. Heavily hazy, darker/drabber brass-bronze with a small, white head showing moderate-to-low retention. Nose is juicy, fruity, with notes of light pine, stronger alpha acidity and a solid malt base of honey, graham cracker and cookie. Papaya, mango and rich, fresh squeezed orange juice are enjoyable, but the malt is somewhat on the stronger side, as is the pine-like acidity. Soft, supple, malty, with good, perhaps not great attenuation, though that seems intentional for sure. Papaya, mango, orange juice and stronger pine without any of the watermelon I love from Tree House. Not bubble gummy either, though, which is nice. Feels like Juice Machine without the more interesting notes. A pinch of alcohol and lingering pine-like resin/spice. Good and I can certainly respect the lack of a cookie cutter glass of NEIPA orange juice here, but it's not the type of DIPA that I love.

Tried from Can on 07 Feb 2022 at 18:43


7

Tried from Can on 28 Aug 2021 at 00:22



6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pours an opaque orange from a can. Big tropical fruit aroma, some green onion. Similar flavor. Good beer.

Tried from Can on 11 Jul 2021 at 00:40


7.5
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Can shared thanks to Nikos. Murky blond with a white head. Aroma of fruits, grass and green weeds. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Can on 30 Jun 2021 at 19:50


6.8
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can at home. Ugly hazy yellow color, medium sized white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, sweetish fruity hoppy aroma and flavors, lightly bitter, hoppy bitter. Decent to medium body and carbonation. Okay.

Tried on 26 May 2021 at 19:37


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

Can sample at a tasting at troubles' place. Thanks troubles. Murky yellow, white head. Oniony green hops, kinda fruity, sweetish, green bitterness, alcohol note.

Tried from Can on 03 Mar 2021 at 17:57


8.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can (12/3/20) pour from trade with Johnnnniee--thanks, John! Appearance is cloudy, almost iridescent orange with nice sparkle at the edges of the glass, finger-plus white foamy head with excellent retention and rings of soapy lacing. Aroma is strong mango, pineapple rind and citrus. Taste is strong mango, stone fruit, melon and tropical fruit. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth, frothy texture, soft carbonation and crisp finish as taste. Overall, strong aroma and flavor with decent complexity. Great look and decent mouthfeel. Quite good.

Tried from Can on 20 Feb 2021 at 02:40


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

Can from Jeff, thanks for the hookup! Lightly hazy lemon gold in color with a thin bubbly white head that dissipates quickly. Earthy citrus and tropical fruits with a heavy bit of pine and resin especially in the flavor. Light sweet bread underneath. I like it!

Tried from Can on 01 Jan 2021 at 22:52


8

0,473 litre Can, at home. Cloudy Golden/ orange with white head. Malts, hops, Citrus, pineapple, Tropical fruits, some Piney bitterness.

Tried from Can on 30 Dec 2020 at 17:35