Tiny Little Blizzards
Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery

 

Look: Medium golden colour with a hint of orange, opaque and hazy. Pours with a finger of fluffy white head, that dissipates slowly leaving a 1/3 of a finger and plenty of lacing around the cup after 5 minutes.

Smell: Pithy with orange zest, pineapple galore, and a damp earthiness. Hints of guava and lychee.

Taste: Super juicy with the pineapple dominant taste complimented by hints of green melons, kiwi, and tangerine. Leans closer to the bitter side, but with plenty of sweetness too (both tropical sweetness and definate lactose infused sweetness too). Earthy mineral water qualities on the finish, with a very nice hoppy ending.

Feel: Medium to Full bodied with round oily qualities up front. Other reviewers have hit the nail on the head pointing out a dry almost chalky finish.

Branded as a Northern Hemisphere IPA, given the reliance on Northern ingrediants, it is decidely tropical. A NEIPA that leans slightly west in some ways. I give this a solid A-.

Definitely better than Tiny Little Wizards in every way. Has a lovely sweet hop taste, not overpowering with a perfect pinch of bitterness. FM should stick with Blizzards and pitch Wizards in my opinion

 

 

 

can from LCBO...pours a hazy light gold with 1 finger tight bone white cap....aroma is a bit of a surprise; fruity, mango, pine some earthy undertones...flavor is exceptionally soft on the palate...rich in fruity eaters and hop floral-fruit flavors..rich body with malty-musty undertones...tich woodsy-malty finish...DAMN! probably the best IPA this brewer has ever made IMHO

473 mL can
Served in a stemless wine glass

This beer pours an orangish yellow color and is hazy. It is topped with an inch of beige head that leaves spotty lacing.

It is not very aromatic. I struggle to get a sweet citrus aroma. Maybe a little melon.

The flavor is not impressive either. I get kind of a sweet citrus flavor with hints of grapefruit and pine. Melon flavor is intermittent.

Medium bodied with a creamy mouthfeel

It is not great. It is not bad. It is pretty much a generic hazy IPA that every brewery, except the standouts, make.

Pours slightly hazy with a nice sizeable head on top. Tropical on the nose. The taste is quite nice. A little bit citrus a little bit hoppy a little bit sweet. Mouthfeel is a little thin. Overall it’s a pretty good beer.
Feb 1 2021

 

 

473 ml can served fairly cold into a pint glass. LCBO purchase for about $3.75 CDN.

Appearance - Hazy, rich golden orange color. Impressive two finger cap of fluffy white head, good staying power and huge swaths of lacing left behind.

Smell - Tropical notes, some grapefruit, mango and pineapple. Wheaty backbone and a dusting of lychee to cap things off. An excellent nose in terms of aroma, that could be enhanced even more with greater intensity.

Taste - Deliciously tropical, pineapple, grapefruit and mango leading the way, bit os melon shine through and a very nice balance between sweet and bitter.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied, a bit slick and soft carbonation. Very easy to drink. Finishes dry-ish and not quite chalky but in that vein. Works really well.

Overall - Excellent IPA, even better than Tiny Little Wizards (which I enjoyed) and up there with Sparklepuff and Adventures in Time Surfing as some of the best IPA's FM has put out. Excellent brew and with GLB Lake Effect back on shelves, I think I have my two go two IPA's for the next month or two.

473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Nov 26 2020 and served slightly chilled. I did a double-take when I walked past this can on the shelf - at first I mistook it for Wizards, because the label art is basically a palette swap, but to my pleasant surprise it turned out to be a brand new beer.

Pours a hazy, translucent apricot yellow colour, generating approximately one inch of soapy, foamy white head that weakens and wilts within the next several minutes. A beautiful pattern of webbed lacing has been imprinted onto the glass, with a bubbly collar and thin cap also remaining in place - lookin' good so far. The nose is a blend of mango, melon, pineapple and citrus, with hints of pear, lemon and white grape. Not especially aromatic, but I like what I'm getting.

Tasty, juicy stuff - I'm getting mango, pineapple, honeydew melon, apricot and pear at the forefront, with oatmeal and milk sugar sweetness following closely in tow. Hints of gooseberry and white grapefruit develop by mid-sip, followed by a slightly resiny, herbal bitterness at the finish preceding a sweet-ish aftertaste of melon, pineapple, vanilla and lactose. Full in body, with low carbonation that weakly nudges the surface of the palate, resulting in a silky-smooth, soft, somewhat slippery feel in the mouth. It's easy enough to drink at 7%, and you might be able to talk me into another glass...

Final Grade: 4.16, a superb A-. Tiny Little Blizzards is a solid milkshake IPA - I'd have to try them side by side to know for sure, but I think I liked this one slightly more than Wizards, as its quintet of (mostly) American & German hops give it a fruity flair that I found both novel and delicious. Hopheads should not hesitate to roll the dice on this one - it's a safe bet, and something that I expect I'll be returning to in the near future. Cheers!