It Was All a Dreamsicle
DuClaw Brewing Company in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.49
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Can. Opaque, and sort of a dullish blonde-amber colour...to me, this doesn't look particularly appetizing. There's a lot going on in the aroma - orange, grapefruity hops, vanilla and alcohol. But it all makes sense. On the palate, it makes less sense. The alcohol is big, bigger than I like in this style. The hops are next, they're okay but on the palate they start to clash with the vanilla and orange. And the alcohol clashes with pretty much everything. What seemed refined on the nose turned out to be kind of clumsy on the palate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz. can, pours a cloudy dirty orange with a medium white head. Nose is a weird messy mix of orange juice, vanilla, lactose, and restrained citrusy hops. Flavour somehow is cohesive, with citrusy hop upfront that hops this together, complemented by vanilla beans, oranges, bitter orange zest, and a touch of lactose. Somehow, all these strange adjuncts work out reasonably cohesively in this hazy DIPA—they don't drown out the hops, nor are they cloying or harsh. You could say this becomes a bit muddled, but it's not too bad. Surprisingly solid.