Mountain Haze
Woodstock Inn Brewery

 

Poured from a glass into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a lightly hazy yellow orange color with a puffy head of white foam. The head has a very good level of retention, leaving a light level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is rather strong of citrus and tropical fruit smell with lots of grapefruit hop and a rather big showing of papaya, tangerine, pineapple and mango. Along with these smells comes a rather strong bready smell mixed with notes of yeast. Other fruit aromas of a apricot and peach are there as well, and with a touch of pine, a rather nice inviting smell is produced overall.
Taste – The taste begins with a bready and slightly doughy malt flavor mixed with some of the fruit that was in the nose. There is a good showing of tangerine, papaya, and pineapple mixed with apricot and peach. Right from the start there is a moderate showing of a pine, which has other hop flavors of an earthy and grapefruit nature mixed within. As the taste advances some of the topicals fade a touch while the bready and hop get a bit stronger, taking the taste to the end and leaving one with a moderately malty, hopped, and fruity taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium to slightly thicker in thickness and creaminess with a light carbonation level. For the flavors and the abv. the feel is pretty decent making for an easy sipper while supporting the flavors well.
Overall – A pretty decent, slightly more malty and bready, hazy IPA. Enjoyable, but nothing to go out of your way for.

 

Can from Mr Barleywine, thanks for the opportunity!
Hazy dark yellow with a decent frothy white head that persists. Earthy pine bitter astringency and butterscotch. Ringwood yeast sucks!

 

 

 

 

Canned on 2/3/22 opened and reviewed on: 3/14/22

Put it in a backpack!

Looks: Minimal haze within the burnt golden color. Chunky and creamy white foam cap is impressive. Big lace, turtle slow dissipation.

Nose: Fresh hop aroma, big strawberry and cream smell, Lupulin, dank earthiness, and bold tropicals. Impressive nose.

Flavor & Feel: The hop is actually very assertive with a sharp, tangy, earthy kick at first. Dry earth tones and then tart and tangy fruity hops basically explode. Balanced indeed, as the golden grainy, and medium bodied malt holds it down on the low end. Crisp at first, then slightly smooth.

Overall: So, based on it's style contemporaries, it's on the low end, however, the 6% abv makes it more sessionable than most and it still has some rather bold and complex hop fun times.

 

This is a very good beer. However except for the appearance this beer is nothing like a NEIPA. This beer tastes, smells and feels like a West Coast IPA. I think unfiltered West Coast style would have been a better way to describe this beer.

Appearance: Hazy and orangeish. Typical NEIPA.
Smell: Woody/Herbal hops. No fruit whatsoever.
Taste: Bitter herbal hops and a complementary rich malt backbone.
Feel: Full bodied with a bitter hop bite. Lacking the thick smoothness often associated with NEIPAs.