Weather Rotating Hoppy Beer #4
Paradox Brewery in North Hudson, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.95
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Reviewed from notes.
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: pale orange color with a finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: lotsa lemon, sweet and bitter, pulpy and rind-like, touch of tart, with a clean absorbant citrusy/pithy character
Flavor: sweet and bitter through the prior noted aromas; finishes lemony and rind-like, somewhat bitter
Texture: light to medium bodied, sessionable; light smoothness which wanted to be pillowy but really wasn't as some bitterness aggression was noted
Overall: this is Paradox's experiment in trying to brew a true NEIPA. I didn't mind this beer for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy deep golden and lightly coppered coloured body with a rich, thick, four centimetre tall soapy pure white head. Aroma of grass, light fruits, deep dank hops with a herbal character and a steady stream of both malts and alcohol. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong grassy and very herbal flavours throughout with an ultra dry finish showing some light tropical fruits and pure grapefruit notes and ending with a good malt backbone and some yeastie portions. Aftertaste shows the grass, a lot of dry grain with a supportive body and ending with a herbal and grapefruit bitterness that emanate from the hops, but are supported by all the malt that make this a nice balanced beer at the end. Overall, a very nice IPA that blends the line between 'Hazy' and 'Brut' in terms of taste (it looks purely hazy) with a very dry profile, but complex and deep, all with a good malt profile as well. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 22-September-2018 for US$3,49 sampled at home in Washington on 28-April-2019.