Bbbrighttt - Nelson
Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.78
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It builds upon the base beer with an amplified flavor profile as a function of additional kettle and dry hopping. It is an intense and fruity concoction that tastes much like fresh-squeezed orange juice and juicy white wine.
We find it to be tremendously drinkable in spite of its stature, and we believe it is the perfect beer for those in search of intense flavor and supreme refreshment.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can (11/4/21) pour from the brewery in Charlton. It's a lightly hazy, golden yellow with a few floaties, nice sparkle, 2-finger width white foamy head with excellent retention and light lacing. Aroma is strong white grape, citrus, honeydew. Taste is strong white grape, citrus, biscuit and light bitterness. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, average carbonation and crisp, dry finish. Overall, not intensely fruity nor orange juice so doesn't fit description very well. Nelson is featured well but not that much around it. Decent but doesn't stand out for TH.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours bright gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to coat surface. Mango, pineapple and meadow aromas. Soft with sweet melon, lychee, pineapple rind and mango skin upfront turning to hot caramel, pine, and tangerine pith in the medium length finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a hazy, glowing golden-pineapple, with big, fluffy white head. Aroma is grassy, with citrus and tropical fruit and almost a saison-like peppery note. The flavor shares that pepper note, with the grass, some citrus and tropical fruit. There's a fair amount of pine/spruce hoppiness in the finish. Mouthfeel is maybe a bit lighter than expected.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a hazy straw from a can. Grassy, grape-y aroma and flavor. Good beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Canned 8/11, drunk 8/21 and 8/26/21.
Minimally hazy, peach-golden with a medium-sized, white head showing moderate retention.
Nose is very leafy. Sort of a humid day in the woods type of thing, though with some additional vegetal character. White grape/white peach shows the presence of the Nelson, but there's scant stone fruit or big minerality usually associated with it. Malts are sparse, as per the series, but provide enough balancing honey and biscuit. No alcohol noted, nor flaw, but it's just a little bit twangy. Not resinous, just like overboiled hop notes with too much earthiness/vegetal character followed by the very dry white grape.
In the mouth all of these characteristics are exacerbated with the astringent hop character really fatiguing the palate quickly. Punchy white grape and vegetal, almost sour hop notes without as much soft and sweet honey-like malt as it would take to properly balance. Reasonably soft texture, but it's no match for whatever has gone wrong with the hops here. Sweaty, sour, astringent, acidic. I couldn't finish either can. The rare miss from TH.