Tropical Swirlies
Spring House Brewing Company in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.72
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Very light straw and ghostly white, barely hazy coloured body, with a super large, very frothy, just off-white head that looks like a lot of soap and much less of an IPA. Aroma of super strong peach and mango notes with a very dry, grassy and herbal bitterness and some soft pepper and malt/wheat notes, but seemingly this smells all about the fruits. Light-bodied; Strong dry and very perfumey, floral hop bitterness hits at first with a soft sweetness and very fruity, super peachy fruit flavour, with some mangoes and residual sugars, but this is more on the dry side. Aftertaste shows more dryness and soft bitterness than malts, as well as more peach flavours than sweetness and this comes off almost more of a fruited saison than an IPA (especially trying to be a New England IPA!). Overall, relatively nice, and slightly funky as there isn't much malt here and this is quite thin, but the flavours there (especially the fruits) are very strong and enjoyable. Good to sample from the brewery and even though it wasn't one of my favourites, people who like peaches and/or mangoes would really enjoy this! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Ye Olde Spirits Shop in Frederick, Maryland on 29-November-2020 for US$3,59 while cutting down my Christmas Tree for the year, sampled at my house back here in Washington on 09-December-2020.