Trail - Fresh Hop Strata
Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Series|
Score
7.34
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As the market begins to move toward the conveniences of pelletized fresh hop products, we have remained decidedly old school, going farm direct in this increasingly rare delight. This is a special one, indeed—cherish and enjoy!
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours deep, hazy gold into a willi. Bright white soapy head with good retention recedes gloppy lacing. Mango and passion fruit aromas. Dry with sweet lychee, mango and melon upfront turning to earthy sweet summer berry in the medium length finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a hazy, copper-gold, with smallish head. Aroma is grass, bread, some citrus. Flavors follow. Clean, crisp mouthfeel.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Lukr pour, Charlton, 1/6/23. Hint of chill haze, deep, rich honey-golden. Large, well-retained, white head. Phenomenal nose that you can smell from a few feet away. Stone fruit, Meyer lemon, spicy herb, light pineapple...all very bright and atop dainty honey and cracker malts with clean, mineral-heavy yeast and no alcohol or resin. There's a bit of contemporary hop character (passion fruit gummy bears) but it works just fine as there's enough spice/pine on the end to balance. Oh yeah, that's an incredibly unique, round, bright, hop character with tons of juicy passion fruit, Meyer lemon, Riesling and light pineapple and pine spice on the end. Malts have a ton of soft texture but no sweetness. Just biscuit and bread with no rough edges. Perhaps and bit of bland, chalky hop on the very end, but otherwise this is stunning.