The Substance Ale - Double Dry Hopped
Bissell Brothers Brewing in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Autumn|
Score
7.07
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A particularly frightening version of our flagship IPA, double-dry hopped with Simcoe and Vic Secret in addition to the usual suspects. TRICK or TREAT, baby.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
16 oz can. Aroma has notes of tangerine, cantaloupe, peach, pine, grain. Pours hazy dark yellow with a one finger off-note head with good retention. Taste has a moderate pithy bitterness, finishing dry. Flavors of citrus, pine, and grain.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 31 Oct 2025
at 23:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 5
Overall 7
Canned 10/1/25, drunk 10/16/25.
Large, well-retained, white head. Heavily hazy, rosy-peach-golden body.
Fruity and woody nose with not that much of the Vic Secret coming through (but a bit of light tropical fruit and chalky/earthy mineral). Good and clean aromatic strength with crackery malts gently balancing. No onion/resin/alcohol noted.
Softly juicy and quite woody, though not resinous. Lighter bodied than expected and, perhaps, than is ideal. Seems a bit loose and watery and the scant, crackery malt doesn't do much to help. It's good for drinking it quickly/easily, I suppose, though at 6.6% abv, this is a bit of a moot point. Good bitterness/balance and attenuation, but just a bit too thin and watery to take that seriously. Substance is a weird one, and this is no different.
Large, well-retained, white head. Heavily hazy, rosy-peach-golden body.
Fruity and woody nose with not that much of the Vic Secret coming through (but a bit of light tropical fruit and chalky/earthy mineral). Good and clean aromatic strength with crackery malts gently balancing. No onion/resin/alcohol noted.
Softly juicy and quite woody, though not resinous. Lighter bodied than expected and, perhaps, than is ideal. Seems a bit loose and watery and the scant, crackery malt doesn't do much to help. It's good for drinking it quickly/easily, I suppose, though at 6.6% abv, this is a bit of a moot point. Good bitterness/balance and attenuation, but just a bit too thin and watery to take that seriously. Substance is a weird one, and this is no different.
Tried
from Can
from
Crafted
on 16 Oct 2025
at 18:29
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Pours a hazy, lemon-yellow, with smallish head. Aroma is very dank, with tropical fruit and citrus elements. Flavor is pretty bitter, a bit chalky, with pine/spruce hops up front, some tropical and citrus elements in the rear.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2018
at 22:31