Farmhouse New England DIPA
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.82
|
|
Sign up to add a tick or review
7.2/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught at the brewery, 3/7/18.
Thoroughly cloudy, bronze-maize. White head falls to cover fairly rapidly.
Nose is mild and very spicy at the same time; more of a lush greenery. Light pine, wintergreen and an interesting pear and apple esters that must be whatever "farmhouse" yeast they've used. A bit of light bubble gum in there, as well. It's low on the aromatic strength but shows no flaw, resin or alcohol. With warming it shows nectarine, peach and candied orange, suggesting a blend of PNW and perhaps some minor AUS/NZ hops.
In the mouth it's fairly soft and malty with good attenuation and flavors of mango-lime, spicy pine and lightly succulent honey. Growing pithy bitterness and light alcohol on the end with melon-papaya adding a bit of twang. But this is shockingly soft, fruity and mild with low resin. Clearly nothing like the very mediocre NE IPA that they recently canned. Another sample a few weeks later proved to be a bit more estery, phenolic and twangy, as I think the hops have fallen off, leaving much more yeast character and some sharpness from ester and/or resin.
Thoroughly cloudy, bronze-maize. White head falls to cover fairly rapidly.
Nose is mild and very spicy at the same time; more of a lush greenery. Light pine, wintergreen and an interesting pear and apple esters that must be whatever "farmhouse" yeast they've used. A bit of light bubble gum in there, as well. It's low on the aromatic strength but shows no flaw, resin or alcohol. With warming it shows nectarine, peach and candied orange, suggesting a blend of PNW and perhaps some minor AUS/NZ hops.
In the mouth it's fairly soft and malty with good attenuation and flavors of mango-lime, spicy pine and lightly succulent honey. Growing pithy bitterness and light alcohol on the end with melon-papaya adding a bit of twang. But this is shockingly soft, fruity and mild with low resin. Clearly nothing like the very mediocre NE IPA that they recently canned. Another sample a few weeks later proved to be a bit more estery, phenolic and twangy, as I think the hops have fallen off, leaving much more yeast character and some sharpness from ester and/or resin.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Jun 2018
at 14:55