Bent Tree
Wren House Brewing Company in Phoenix, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Special|
Score
7.22
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We’ve been super happy with how our bigger (8%+) hoppy beers have been turning out. Dialing in the grain base, mainly in the format of raw cereal grain ratios, finding that there’s definitely a sweet spot when using a combo of flaked oats and raw wheat. Bent Tree is a great example of this constantly refined process. Brewed with the same grain bill/process as DREAMY DRAW (sinagua, flaked oats, raw @grainrandd wheat, lil carahell), yep all that stuff makes for a great hoppy DIPA. BUT, we used different hops this time. Lots of fresh pungent Simcoe in the whirlpool. Double dry hopped with a blend of said Simcoe as well as some of those crazy delicious Strata hops. A combo made in hop heaven. Guava, pineapple, lime, blueberry. Lots of random yet well intertwined fruit flavors coming through. Soft and delicate, but packs a huge hop flavor punch.
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8.8
Ibrew2or3 (10793) reviewed Bent Tree from Wren House Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Pint can pours with a murky opaque dull gold copper body that supports a thin white head of foam. The aroma offers up a modest array of orange, tangelo and mango hoppiness. The taste delivers a pleasing blend of citrus juice, softer tangy notes of tropical fruitiness and then flowing into a bit of grainy malts. Another sip and the citrus tends to take on a cream cycle sensation. There's zero sense of the ABV. Solid IIPA.
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on 11 Sep 2020
at 03:12