Tropical Double Broken Heels
New Trail Brewing Co. in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.04
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 1.5 | Texture - 1 | Overall - 0.5
Hah! Thought I tasted this before but no, its the 'tropical' double broken, not the original double broken! 12 oz can for a buck off the clearance rack. Hazy pale pour with a big rocky head that fades a bit to craggy pond scum. Nose is odd fruity hop perfume. First taste is fruit, but then immediately it goes into a big fat hop bitterness that coats the inside of yer mouth, whew. Then that feelings lasts for quite a long time. Blah. Actually quite acrid for a lager lover. Yep, you get fooled by the fruit on the commencement then you get punished with the terribly bitter on style hop double impy IPA impact, what a faddish IPA session. These IPA are so boorish, there must be a trillion out there and they all practically taste the same: Chewing on hops that taste like earwax & hand soap that taste like rotting fermented green grapefruit rinds mixed with pine tar and turpentine; the primary source of bitterness in IPAs, a characteristic flavor that is a hallmark of the style. There you have it, another double impy IPA that is dead on terrible style. A banausic tick yea, but at least it had some alky content to make it worthwhile.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Very hazy straw golden coloured body with a soapy, very fast-dying off-white head and a bunch of bubbles rising from the bottom, just visible through the 90 per cent opacity. Aroma of mangoes (actual fruits), guava and cream, with some noticeable malt and alcohol as well, with some deep bitterness from alpha acids as well. Medium to Full-bodied; Extremely astringent and medicinal flavours show at first, seemingly from the hops, but also showing some rich malt bite with biscuits and bread towards the end. Aftertaste brings out some of the fruit notes with a slight mango and pineapple flavour, but then the more pungent flavours arrive and are deep, with alcohol noticeable at the end, with some residual sugars helping offset the strength, especially at the end. Overall, not the best IPA of course, and while the pungency and strength is there, especially at first, the balance and tropically notes are present, as are some smooth sugars that suppresses the bite. Not as bad as I first expected, after I kept drinking (this is BIG!), perhaps the best from the three (of the brewery in this format) that I've had, which isn't saying too much? I sampled this 19,2 ounce TALL can, purchased from Liberty Liqours in LaVale, Maryland on 29-May-2023 for US$2,99 canned on 20-March-2023 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 06-July-2023.
Very fruity. Not much else to it. Finishing up packing