Highboy - Southern Hemi
Independence Brewing Co.

Poured slightly orange with pretty good head and lace with fair retention.

This one is all over the place. A little grain and a bunch of tropical hops, with little wisps of dank, pine, grass and fruit. The flavors take you to a bunch of places.

Once again highboy = good and hoppy.

This might be the one I was addicted to for about a month straight, but I was in such a hop daze coma I only vaguely recall it all. But when the store ran out one day... Waaaaa! I had to call the waaaambulance for myself.

Giant tall boy can, 2022/10/13
Pours a large frothy rich 1 finger head with moderate retention, foamy lacing, hazy golden orange tan color

Nose fair dank hops, lots of hops overall, citrus and tropical notes, a bit of musty white wine grape skin, blend of tropical fruits, candied orange, light sweet malt

Taste some rich bready malts up front, cracker like, sweet malt with a faint toasted bread, plenty of hops cut in with a little spicy note, plenty of musty tropical fruit, a blend of tropical fruit, some candied citrus and pith, a bit of tropical fruit flavored white wine again, getting a bit grassy herbal late, and a touch more spicy late, mid sticky semi dry finish, med bitterness for DIPA, slight grassy spicy hops with more tropical citrus

Mouth is med to fuller bod, med to higher frothy carb, just a hint of warming alcohol

Overall not bad, nice DIPA with good balance, nice malt profile that shows up but doesn't intrude, hops bring some nice characters and don't get in your face bitter

 

 

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance - The beer pours a hazy orange amber color with a one finger head of billowy white foam. The head has a great level of retention, slowly fading over time to leave tons of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell - The aroma of the brew is quite heavy of a tangerine and tropical fruit sweetness of pineapple and papaya. Along with these smells comes a relatively good showing of a breadiness as well as some notes of caramel. There is a rather decent hoppiness of a grapefruit and pine nature as well, giving a rather robust and pleasant aroma overall.
Taste - The taste begins with a nice bready malt flavor that has a good level of fruit sweetness of tangerine and some lighter tropical fruit notes of mango and papaya. Upfront there is also a rather decent showing of some grapefruit and pine hop, with these getting stronger and stronger as the taste advances forward. At the same time, as the taste advances forward, there is a slight loss of the tropical fruits with them being replaced by a little bit of caramel sweetness. All the while, the breadiness gets strong and takes on a very light toast like quality. Some new hop flavors of an herbal hop and a bit of an earthy taste come to the tongue at the end, and with a touch of alcohol, it leaves one with a nice smooth, slightly bready, and robust taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel - The body of the brew is thick and chewy with a carbonation level that is on the lower side. For the mix of malt, hop, light sweetness, and abv. the feel is great and makes this one a very nice slow, but dangerously easy sipper.
Overall - A very tasty and robust brew overall. A great one to try if you have the opportunity.