Together or Alone
Foam Brewers in Burlington, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Rotating|
Score
7.27
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Double IPA brewed with oats and lactose. While we’ve grown fond of brewing with these ingredients on Lake Street, seldom have we canned beer with them. Save for our collab with Other Half (Made Up Dream) and a Bonus Track, this is a creamy depature from the norm of our canned offerings. Dry-hopped with Citra, Nelson and Galaxy, Together or Alone is 8.5% abv and presents a palette consisting of candied orange rind and crushed pineapple, with a creamy body, and dank finish.⠀
The art on this can was created by an artist we’ve been looking forward to working with for some time now. Caitlin Ryan (@cvit_ryvn) is a local artist living and working in Burlington. After studying studio art at UVM, Caitlin has been honing her style over the years, only presenting her work to the public more recently. Using past experience, photos, color, and the human form to convey a feeling, a place, or a moment, Caitlin creates beautiful, dream-like imagery utilizing a combination of watercolor painting and drawing. A friend and long-time supporter of the brewery, Caitlin is someone who we’re proud to represent us in a creative way, and this can came out even better than we ever imagined.
The art on this can was created by an artist we’ve been looking forward to working with for some time now. Caitlin Ryan (@cvit_ryvn) is a local artist living and working in Burlington. After studying studio art at UVM, Caitlin has been honing her style over the years, only presenting her work to the public more recently. Using past experience, photos, color, and the human form to convey a feeling, a place, or a moment, Caitlin creates beautiful, dream-like imagery utilizing a combination of watercolor painting and drawing. A friend and long-time supporter of the brewery, Caitlin is someone who we’re proud to represent us in a creative way, and this can came out even better than we ever imagined.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: burnt orange haziness with a two and a half fingers of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: pineapple to mango to papaya hop notes with a light creamy whiff underneath
Flavor: melds the prior noted aromas to lean towards more of tropical fruity sweet vibe while seemingly keeping the creamy/lactose thing a bit more at bay; finishes about the same way
Texture: light to medium bodied, leaning towards being a sipper a bit; good smoothness with nothing there distracting; good low carb and low hop bitterness
Overall: if this is a milkshake IPA then it's one of the better ones out there as I'm glad the vanilla/lactose thing didn't become overbearing as many of this style tend to, so yes, I would return to this one.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: burnt orange haziness with a two and a half fingers of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: pineapple to mango to papaya hop notes with a light creamy whiff underneath
Flavor: melds the prior noted aromas to lean towards more of tropical fruity sweet vibe while seemingly keeping the creamy/lactose thing a bit more at bay; finishes about the same way
Texture: light to medium bodied, leaning towards being a sipper a bit; good smoothness with nothing there distracting; good low carb and low hop bitterness
Overall: if this is a milkshake IPA then it's one of the better ones out there as I'm glad the vanilla/lactose thing didn't become overbearing as many of this style tend to, so yes, I would return to this one.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Apr 2026
at 13:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Mikkeller & Friends, 🇩🇰 Stefansgade 35, Copenhagen, Denmark 2200.
[ As Foam Brewers Together Or Alone ].
ABV: 8.5%. Murky medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, fruity malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, fruity hops, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, tropical fruit, fruity hops, oat, wheat, candied fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20211020]
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Tried
from Can
on 14 May 2023
at 08:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Canned 12/15/21, drunk 1/12/22. Medium hazy, drab-pineapple with a small, white head that slowly recedes to cover/ring. Getting more crushed pineapple than I'd expect from Citra/Galaxy/Nelson, but there's also plentiful other tropical fruits in there. Softer mango and I almost want to say creamy vanilla? Ah, I see, this has lactose in it. Well, it's creamy-vanilla-like and orange creamsicle-like, so I guess that's successful, but oh, hey, what about the fact that the hops are massively muted because of the lactose? Fuck brewing with lactose in hoppy beers, what a waste! Giving credit where due, however, the flavor is pretty fantastic and interesting. While I ultimately think it gets tiresome (the creamy-sweet-vanilla-lactose character), it does create some fun flavors with the hops, yielding lots of pineapple, intense mango, hints of lemon and plenty of orange creamsicle. With warming, it's more of the same, with the addition of honey-like maltiness. It's certainly soft and creamy, that's for sure....Definitely could use a LOT more bitterness and I don't even care much for bitterness Ain IPAs. But this is just too much sweet and creamy. At the end of the day, I'm fine with lactose, at least as a novelty, but please make it balanced.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2022
at 01:12
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Mikkeller & Friends, Copenhagen. Juicy, tropical fruity and citrusy with some pine and mango notes, hints of creamy lactose.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2021
at 12:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap @ Mikkeller, Stefansgade. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and moderate hoppy - fruity and citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 201021
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Oct 2021
at 17:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can
Tried
from Can
on 07 Oct 2021
at 16:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a hazy, lemon yellow, with smallish head that dissipates rather quickly. Aroma is citrus, with some tropical fruit, some grassiness. Flavor is quite grassy, with citrus and tropical fruit elements, and almost a touch of a saison-like pepperiness. Has a fairly bitter, hoppy finish as well.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2021
at 20:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
16oz can pours a pulpy yellow with plenty of white head. Nose has muddled citrus zest, sweet herbs, grass, some pineapple and mango. Flavor is right up front with the pineapple and mango and some white melon, lemon and orange and tangerine now, some honey, sweet herbs, some green grape. Finished nearly full bodied, fruity.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Aug 2021
at 00:25
Badass mashup of orange and pineapple juice. This has a nice hop presence too, which that DN Ripe was lacking. Galaxy, citra, Nelson baby! Crushing this outback with The Ghost insistent on playing fetch, even though he is gassed. Thanks Sean for scooping!
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jul 2021
at 21:33
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 12 Mar 2021
at 19:51