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The Juice
Peak Organic Brewing Company
- From:
- Peak Organic Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
Ranked #239 - ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #9,794 - Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 8.46%
- Reviews:
- 74
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 08, 2023
- Added:
- Jul 02, 2016
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 75
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Ratings by Zanico:
Rated by Zanico from Ohio
4.21/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Jul 13, 2017
4.21/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Jul 13, 2017
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by VABA from Virginia
4.05/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.05/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours a hazy golden color with a nice head and lacing
Aroma has tropical and citrus hints
Taste has tropical and citrus flavors
A medium bodied well carbonated beer
A good PA
Jul 08, 2023Aroma has tropical and citrus hints
Taste has tropical and citrus flavors
A medium bodied well carbonated beer
A good PA
Reviewed by akaizer from Virginia
4.02/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From a can into a pint glass. Poured with a floofy 1/2" head of just off-white foam with a pale hazy body golden wheat (color). Scent is hop-forward with notes of grassy spice, pine, and citrus (orange/stone fruit). Taste matches well with the citrus coming most cleanly and the grassy spice + pine coming in a second wave. Feel is on the lighter/thiner side but has the benefit of being a very refreshing brew for the summer with a slightly hoppy aftertaste (pine/grassy) that helps keep this APA true to form. Highly recommend for any APA or hazy fans out there.
Jul 10, 2022Reviewed by kalsarikannit from Massachusetts
4.27/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On tap in Bar Harbor Maine.
A very good hazy dry hopped NEIPA, a ‘medium’ intensity beer.
Appearance is honey yellow, hazy opaque, light head.
Smell is moderately strong grapefruit, secondary pineapple, some stone fruit.
Feel is slightly acidic, a touch on the thin side.
Taste follows the smell, strong grapefruit, background notes of pineapple. Low-key background bitterness.
Overall somewhat less intense than juice bombs like Blue Comet. Easy to drink more than one.
Oct 13, 2021A very good hazy dry hopped NEIPA, a ‘medium’ intensity beer.
Appearance is honey yellow, hazy opaque, light head.
Smell is moderately strong grapefruit, secondary pineapple, some stone fruit.
Feel is slightly acidic, a touch on the thin side.
Taste follows the smell, strong grapefruit, background notes of pineapple. Low-key background bitterness.
Overall somewhat less intense than juice bombs like Blue Comet. Easy to drink more than one.
Rated by ThePold from Virginia
4.5/5 rDev +11.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +11.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Fresh 6 from WF; very good hazy
Jan 10, 2021Reviewed by ChristopherCurtis from New York
4.01/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 3.75
4.01/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 3.75
Appearance: Apricot jam with gobs of white foam. Smuttynose Finest Kind doppelganger.
Smell: Orange juice, lemon zest, maybe some lime and fresh buttermilk biscuits.
Taste: Grapefruit, grainy at times, crackers, lemongrass, not too bitter. Tastes fresh.
Feel: Slammable.
Overall: The only juice I'll have with breakfast.
Dec 05, 2020Smell: Orange juice, lemon zest, maybe some lime and fresh buttermilk biscuits.
Taste: Grapefruit, grainy at times, crackers, lemongrass, not too bitter. Tastes fresh.
Feel: Slammable.
Overall: The only juice I'll have with breakfast.
Reviewed by dano213 from Pennsylvania
4.5/5 rDev +11.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +11.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
12oz can purchased from the fridge as a six-pack for $11.99. Best By 2/18/2021...not sure what that means as far as when it was canned but the guy at the store said that they usually carry it, it was out of stock, and then more had just come in recently.
Look: Very hazy! Light orange, cloudy, murky...looks a bit like fresh-squeezed, unfiltered grapefruit or peach juice. Very thin white head clinging to the surface.
Smell: Smells like straight-up grapefruit juice! This canning must be fresh. The aroma is so intense and inviting. On the very front end of the nose, I pick up some of those resinous, green hop notes. But this nose is almost all about citrus juice. As I drink this, I get a bit of those chalkly aromas that I sometimes get with NEIPAs...but that could just be some of the yeast resettling as I swirl the glass.
Taste: Does not disappoint. Up front it tastes super juicy, even get a bit of citrus tang. Very refreshing. The beer finishes with citrus aromatics and a nice hop bittering that is not too aggressive and not shy either. I like the fresh citrus pith/zest flavors that come through and linger between sips.
Feel: Soft and creamy. Nice carbonation. Well done.
Overall: Solid beer, solid price, super crushable and refreshing. Just make sure that you can get it fresh. Such a nice progression of flavors. It's hard to believe that a beer that looks and smells like this could be balanced, but to me it really is. Then again, I think that the expectation for an American Pale Ale has evolved so much nowadays....this could easily qualify as a New England Pale Ale (and it probably does, but that style does not currently exist here). I remember drinking this beer about two or three years ago and I think that they changed the brewing process to make it super hazy. I remember it being clear or just slightly hazy. It was good then and it's good now too. Just seems like a different beer.
From the website:
The Juice – a wicked dry-hopped Pale Ale – is the charismatic cousin to Super Fresh. Tangerine and berry notes explode in the aroma, and juicy hop flavors burst on the scene at first sip. Brewed with amarillo, citra, simcoe, and one of our new favorite hops – Azacca.
ABV – 5.8%
Jul 16, 2020Look: Very hazy! Light orange, cloudy, murky...looks a bit like fresh-squeezed, unfiltered grapefruit or peach juice. Very thin white head clinging to the surface.
Smell: Smells like straight-up grapefruit juice! This canning must be fresh. The aroma is so intense and inviting. On the very front end of the nose, I pick up some of those resinous, green hop notes. But this nose is almost all about citrus juice. As I drink this, I get a bit of those chalkly aromas that I sometimes get with NEIPAs...but that could just be some of the yeast resettling as I swirl the glass.
Taste: Does not disappoint. Up front it tastes super juicy, even get a bit of citrus tang. Very refreshing. The beer finishes with citrus aromatics and a nice hop bittering that is not too aggressive and not shy either. I like the fresh citrus pith/zest flavors that come through and linger between sips.
Feel: Soft and creamy. Nice carbonation. Well done.
Overall: Solid beer, solid price, super crushable and refreshing. Just make sure that you can get it fresh. Such a nice progression of flavors. It's hard to believe that a beer that looks and smells like this could be balanced, but to me it really is. Then again, I think that the expectation for an American Pale Ale has evolved so much nowadays....this could easily qualify as a New England Pale Ale (and it probably does, but that style does not currently exist here). I remember drinking this beer about two or three years ago and I think that they changed the brewing process to make it super hazy. I remember it being clear or just slightly hazy. It was good then and it's good now too. Just seems like a different beer.
From the website:
The Juice – a wicked dry-hopped Pale Ale – is the charismatic cousin to Super Fresh. Tangerine and berry notes explode in the aroma, and juicy hop flavors burst on the scene at first sip. Brewed with amarillo, citra, simcoe, and one of our new favorite hops – Azacca.
ABV – 5.8%
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.27/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Peak Organic Brewing Co. "The Juice"
one pint can, "Best by: 6/19/2020 10:06"
$3.99 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: I appreciate that it's organic. I wonder if all of the hops are organic. And what are they? It's a hazy deep golden with a finger's width of white foam on top. The aroma is fairly bright with notes of orange, pineapple, mango, and pine. The malt comes through as well. On to the taste... well it's pretty much what the aroma suggests. Everything in the aroma is there with the addition of some apricot, a swirl of spiciness, and some more "woodiness" in addition to the pine. The malt is basic, lightly sweetish, and a touch bready. It's quite nice, and a little bit unusual. I was expecting more of an orange juice flavor given the name but it's more varied than that. In fact, although I found the orange fairly predominant at the outset it's not like that anymore. I should also note, it's not that blast of flavor that you get in a "juice bomb", it's much more like a standard IPA - and this is just a pale ale! It seems to have about 45 IBUs and it finishes dry with a bit of spiciness and pine lingering. It's medium in body and gently crisp. The head has held up remarkably well and I've still got a creamy quarter inch of foam covering the entire surface. The lacing as you can imagine is quite good as well. Bravo on that! So I'm not sure what else to say about this one. It's quite full of character and yet it's not overdone at all. It's really well balanced, and easy to drink.
Review #6,987
Mar 31, 2020one pint can, "Best by: 6/19/2020 10:06"
$3.99 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: I appreciate that it's organic. I wonder if all of the hops are organic. And what are they? It's a hazy deep golden with a finger's width of white foam on top. The aroma is fairly bright with notes of orange, pineapple, mango, and pine. The malt comes through as well. On to the taste... well it's pretty much what the aroma suggests. Everything in the aroma is there with the addition of some apricot, a swirl of spiciness, and some more "woodiness" in addition to the pine. The malt is basic, lightly sweetish, and a touch bready. It's quite nice, and a little bit unusual. I was expecting more of an orange juice flavor given the name but it's more varied than that. In fact, although I found the orange fairly predominant at the outset it's not like that anymore. I should also note, it's not that blast of flavor that you get in a "juice bomb", it's much more like a standard IPA - and this is just a pale ale! It seems to have about 45 IBUs and it finishes dry with a bit of spiciness and pine lingering. It's medium in body and gently crisp. The head has held up remarkably well and I've still got a creamy quarter inch of foam covering the entire surface. The lacing as you can imagine is quite good as well. Bravo on that! So I'm not sure what else to say about this one. It's quite full of character and yet it's not overdone at all. It's really well balanced, and easy to drink.
Review #6,987
Reviewed by tigerinatrance from New York
3.89/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
L: orangey, pineappley light yellows and oranges and browns, very quickly dissipating minimal head. Very pretty but nothing special.
S: why does this just smell slightly like... lemony hops? That's about it and it's not strong. This does not have a strong aroma at all.
T: mmmmm... citrusy, mildly piney goodness in every sip. Super satisfying. I'm not a big hoppy APA guy, but I LOVE this. You've got grapefruit and clementine and cherry and lemon and some slight resin, but it never overwhelms you. It's not a punch in the face with hops, it's a lullaby, or an ode.
F: full, frothy, bubbly, high carbonation, goes down easy! Very burpy once you get into the thick of things.
O: one of my favorite APA's out there after one 16 oz. can. It's right up my alley. It isn't overwhelming. It isn't trying to be a hop bomb, it's trying to be The Juice and that's what I love about it! A fine job by Peak Organic Brewing Co.
Feb 17, 2020S: why does this just smell slightly like... lemony hops? That's about it and it's not strong. This does not have a strong aroma at all.
T: mmmmm... citrusy, mildly piney goodness in every sip. Super satisfying. I'm not a big hoppy APA guy, but I LOVE this. You've got grapefruit and clementine and cherry and lemon and some slight resin, but it never overwhelms you. It's not a punch in the face with hops, it's a lullaby, or an ode.
F: full, frothy, bubbly, high carbonation, goes down easy! Very burpy once you get into the thick of things.
O: one of my favorite APA's out there after one 16 oz. can. It's right up my alley. It isn't overwhelming. It isn't trying to be a hop bomb, it's trying to be The Juice and that's what I love about it! A fine job by Peak Organic Brewing Co.
Reviewed by peepicheep from Pennsylvania
3.8/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.8/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at Olde Lincoln House in Ephrata.
Look: Beautiful golden color. Alas another blink and you'll miss it head. Just a bit of a white line around the glass.
Smell: Just about none.
Taste: Here it gets interesting. Strong citrus in every sip. Equally strong bitterness. Exactly what I am looking for. I will warn you (as have others) that the bitterness may be a bit much for some. Again, this works for me. YMMV.
Overall a great summer sipper worth seeking out.
Aug 22, 2019Look: Beautiful golden color. Alas another blink and you'll miss it head. Just a bit of a white line around the glass.
Smell: Just about none.
Taste: Here it gets interesting. Strong citrus in every sip. Equally strong bitterness. Exactly what I am looking for. I will warn you (as have others) that the bitterness may be a bit much for some. Again, this works for me. YMMV.
Overall a great summer sipper worth seeking out.
Reviewed by Holderness from Massachusetts
4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Had on tap at the Foster Country Club during a bike trip across Rhode Island. Easy drinking and quite flavorful/aromatic for the ABV given all the late-addition hops
80/100
Jun 26, 201980/100
The Juice from Peak Organic Brewing Company
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
295 ratings
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