Simcoe Eyes
Mikkeller ApS

On tap at Coffee District. Hazy bright orange. Smells of tangerine and grapefruit. Tastes impressively potent. Tangerine, tingly pine spice, grapefruit, and a sharp passion fruit spike in the back end. Lightly sweet and grainy malt flavor. Low bitterness. The hop profile is spectacular. Could use a touch of bitterness, but I know that's not what's cool these days.

 

Pours bright yellow looks like pineapple juice, hazy with white frothy head.
Aroma has pineapple passion fruit, peach, lots of hops, little dank.
Taste is juicy but not as fruity as the aroma.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One pint can poured into a snifter.

Hazy pale yellow color, the pour builds up very thick silky white head that well retains itself with very good retention before slowly collapsing to an everlasting frothy layer on the surface and leaving lots of sticky lacing patch and spot here and there.

In a nose, big juiciness and fruitiness of tropical, grapefruit, lemon, pineapple, passion fruit, ripe mango, pine, pepper, and mild resin, all from hop. Malt is also there in the undertone with notes of creamy sweet candy, bread, and grain.

It is led also by typical juicy hop providing the flavors of tropical, grapefruit, lemon, pineapple, passion fruit, ripe mango, pine, and mild resin while malt is in the supporting with its sweet candy, bread, and grain. The end and aftertaste disclose slight bitterness and moderate fruitiness.

Light to medium body with quite smooth mouthfeel from its good lively carbonation, the feeling is very crisp and refreshing with a pleasantly dry finish.

This one has lots of bready and grainy malt character to balance the richness of fruity and juicy hop, good NE IPA.