Pineapple Upside Down Cake
New Orleans Lager & Ale Brewing Company (NOLA)
- From:
- New Orleans Lager & Ale Brewing Company (NOLA)
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.6%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 8.1%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 03, 2020
- Added:
- Mar 09, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by puck1225 from Texas
4.19/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Hap if from tap into a snifter. Creamy hazy yellow color with nice white head and good lacing. Tropical fruit smell and taste. Pleasant, sweet pineapple flavor with orange and tangerine. Very smooth feel. Overall, a very good beer that I would get again.
Dec 19, 2019
Reviewed by TinFang from California
4.28/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Purchased from Canseco's Market on Esplanade. Best by 2/3/20. "Drink some Cake".
Appearance - deeply hazy, sort of pineapple colored. Some lacing, uniform white head. Appealing if you like haze which I do.
Smell - tropical hops
Taste - lactose "glaze" up front followed by tropical hops with a vanilla background. The Citra gives the hops definition and the Mosaic and Galaxy give the hops body. Dry hopping gives them persistence. A very nice recipe.
Feel - perfect.
I would buy this ale again. Laisser les bonnes bières verser.
Nov 24, 2019Appearance - deeply hazy, sort of pineapple colored. Some lacing, uniform white head. Appealing if you like haze which I do.
Smell - tropical hops
Taste - lactose "glaze" up front followed by tropical hops with a vanilla background. The Citra gives the hops definition and the Mosaic and Galaxy give the hops body. Dry hopping gives them persistence. A very nice recipe.
Feel - perfect.
I would buy this ale again. Laisser les bonnes bières verser.
Reviewed by jngrizzaffi from Texas
4.43/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Pours a very cloudy golden color with a finger width foamy head. Head retention is good. Lacing is very good. It has a nice juicy, pineapple aroma. Taste is the same with some vanilla creaminess at the end. Medium-bodied with mild to moderate carbonation.
Nov 18, 2019
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3/5 rDev -24.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -24.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
$11.99 USD per 4 pack of 16 fl oz cans at a grocer in New Orleans, LA. Best by: 02/03/20. Standard pull-tab. Label is a bit a amateurish.
"Double India Pale Ale with Pineapple, Vanilla, and Lactose." 7.6% ABV. "A sweet, hazy, tropical double dry hopped Double IPA with Galaxy, Citra, and Mosaic hops."
Turbid orange body. ~1cm white head. Not much to look at, but it'll please haze craze bros.
Aroma is sweet for an IPA, hitting on vanilla, pale malt, warm pineapple, lactose sugar, sweet orange, and fruit cake-like sweetness. Entemann's breakfast cake comes to mind.
Taste matches the aroma, bending too sweet for a so-billed Double IPA while delivering ill enough hop flavour. Vanilla and lactose sugar bolster the pale malt sweetness but there just isn't enough hop flavour or hop bitterness. Subdued citrus pulp. Pineapple. Floral hop flavour. It's not imbalanced, but it does lack the depth and intensity of hop flavour needed to really satisfy those eager for an imperial (i.e. Double) IPA.
Smooth, wet, well-carbonated, not unrefreshing, medium-bodied. Not silky or soft, but comfortable and approachable.
It's a drinkable stab at a style popular on the two coasts, but it feels like mimesis. Not original or uniquely New Orleans, and it doesn't best the bicoastal greats at their game(s). Mosaic barely appears except to offer only vague tropical character and Citra is almost entirely wasted on it. Galaxy is left holding an uncomfortable bag that sags sweet without redeeming characteristics. To me it drinks alien - sanitized with uncomfortably sweet lactose sugar, burdened by artificial vanillin, and unadorned with pleasant hop flavours. If the point of an imperial IPA is to showcase its hop varietals, this fails fundamentally.
High C (3.00) / AVERAGE
Nov 17, 2019"Double India Pale Ale with Pineapple, Vanilla, and Lactose." 7.6% ABV. "A sweet, hazy, tropical double dry hopped Double IPA with Galaxy, Citra, and Mosaic hops."
Turbid orange body. ~1cm white head. Not much to look at, but it'll please haze craze bros.
Aroma is sweet for an IPA, hitting on vanilla, pale malt, warm pineapple, lactose sugar, sweet orange, and fruit cake-like sweetness. Entemann's breakfast cake comes to mind.
Taste matches the aroma, bending too sweet for a so-billed Double IPA while delivering ill enough hop flavour. Vanilla and lactose sugar bolster the pale malt sweetness but there just isn't enough hop flavour or hop bitterness. Subdued citrus pulp. Pineapple. Floral hop flavour. It's not imbalanced, but it does lack the depth and intensity of hop flavour needed to really satisfy those eager for an imperial (i.e. Double) IPA.
Smooth, wet, well-carbonated, not unrefreshing, medium-bodied. Not silky or soft, but comfortable and approachable.
It's a drinkable stab at a style popular on the two coasts, but it feels like mimesis. Not original or uniquely New Orleans, and it doesn't best the bicoastal greats at their game(s). Mosaic barely appears except to offer only vague tropical character and Citra is almost entirely wasted on it. Galaxy is left holding an uncomfortable bag that sags sweet without redeeming characteristics. To me it drinks alien - sanitized with uncomfortably sweet lactose sugar, burdened by artificial vanillin, and unadorned with pleasant hop flavours. If the point of an imperial IPA is to showcase its hop varietals, this fails fundamentally.
High C (3.00) / AVERAGE
Reviewed by beeragent from Texas
4.21/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Poured into a glass from a 16oz can.
L - Pours a light gold, forming a thin white head, with medium lace on the glass. Very hazy in the glass with a lot of sediment floating around.
S - Very fruity from a combination of the hops and the pineapple.
T - Light fruit up front, not as much as the aroma would lead to believe, with a bit of sweetness from the sugar addition. Very balanced between the malt and hops, with the malts coming out more in the finish with a hint of caramel.
F - Medium bodied and good carbonation.
O - Not the fruit bomb milkshake NEIPA style IPA I was hoping for. Having said that, its still a really good fruit infused IPA with plenty of complexity. Glad I grabbed a few extra's of this!
Mar 20, 2018L - Pours a light gold, forming a thin white head, with medium lace on the glass. Very hazy in the glass with a lot of sediment floating around.
S - Very fruity from a combination of the hops and the pineapple.
T - Light fruit up front, not as much as the aroma would lead to believe, with a bit of sweetness from the sugar addition. Very balanced between the malt and hops, with the malts coming out more in the finish with a hint of caramel.
F - Medium bodied and good carbonation.
O - Not the fruit bomb milkshake NEIPA style IPA I was hoping for. Having said that, its still a really good fruit infused IPA with plenty of complexity. Glad I grabbed a few extra's of this!
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