Head Full of Dynomite v.28: Mosaic & Lotus
Fremont Brewing Company

All of their "Head Full of Dynomite" series taste quite similar. Don't know if they are just tweaking one recipe so they can call it a different beer. But their HFOD series seems to be popular, so they continue to brew them. Not sure what date I originally rated this beer, I think maybe April 2021. BOD 4-20-2021

Review 1560
Fremont Brewing
Head Full of Dynomite V.28
Package Date 04/08/2021, Just outside the 90-day window.
The pour of the beer created a marvelous three-fingered head with excellent retention. The head of the beer is bright white, foamy, and airy. The dissipation was slow leaving, gobs of lacing on the glass. The color of the beer is SRM 6, pale amber with golden hues. This beer is hazy and does have some carbonation bubbles visible within the beer. Yeast floaties are noticeable in the glass as I pour more liquid into the glass.

I first detect papaya, strawberries, peaches, and oranges. Nosing further, I identify lightly toasted crackers, bread crust, grass, floral esters, and fruity-like sweetness.

The flavors in the beer are floral esters, papaya, floral esters, herbal note, fruity-like sweetness, peaches, orange, a hint of grapefruit, pine needles, peaches, pineapple, bread crust, and toasted crackers.
The mouthfeel is creamy, carbonated, and slightly astringent.
The body of the beer is medium, medium-plus carbonation, and has a fuller finish.

The unique combination of the hops makes for an amusing hazy IPA. I like the fruitness in this beer, pairing well with the malt profile. I enjoyed this beer and with the hop combination. It still tasted fresh.

16 oz. Can
PKG: 04/13/21

Poured into a Tree House glass a pretty nice cloudy pale yellow/orange color, pretty nice carbonation, with a pretty nice thick/creamy one-finger off-white head, which also leaves some pretty nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is hoppy, malty, with a pretty nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, guava, peach, nectarine, mango), pretty nice diesel like. The taste is pretty nice hoppy, malty, with a very nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, guava, peach, nectarine, mango), pretty nice diesel like. Medium body, ABV hidden very nicely, with a nice little dry/bitter finish. Overall, this is a pretty tasty brew. Orange Julius! Addictive! MilkShake!

 

Canned on April 8th. Hazy pour, NWIPA color. Floral scent wafts up from frothy head, fades quickly away. Taste is rather light and on the dry side. Comes off with a different taste, one that's a bit fruity in a fashion that mimics "fruit flavored" consumer products. Very subdued malt. We're not impressed with this one. Others in this series have been better.

Look - Hazy oragnish color with some nice skimming and a slight head
Smell - Mango citrus
Taste - mango citrus ne oat taste
Feel - nice soft creamy body
Overall - pretty good

Pint can dated 4/13/21 poured into a Teku on 4/24/21.

Pours 2" of foamy white head. A hazy, opaque golden color.

Aromas of melon, grapefruit, grass, and a light cracker or biscuit malt.

Tropical fruit flavors are the emphasis with very little of the bitterness or malt coming through.

Medium-bodied mouthfeel with a good effervescence. A bit of astringency, but smooth and drinkable.

A good hazy IPA with a very fruity hop profile, but it doesn't do much to stand out from other hazy IPAs.

 

2021-05-19
16oz can served in a big snifter. Dated Dated 04/08/21. Bought it at the brewery a couple hours ago.

Pours a hazy amber-orange with a really big head that collapses to a coarse curtain, a clumpy curtain, and rocky little islands. Smell is grassy/green resin, a little pine, a little tropical juice.

Taste is bubblegum and melon, a slow resinous bitterness that really takes over at the end, pine and melon rind. The flavors are present and interesting, but not overwhelming or overpowering.

Mouthfeel is soft and smooth, slight cottonmouth feeling. Overall, very enjoyable, very easy to drink.

Appearance: Pours a cloudy honey color with a two finger head; splashy lacing

Smell: Berry and papaya tones with a touch of caramel and bread

Taste: Papaya forward with berry, bread and a hint of caramel; blood orange bitterness emerges, in the middle, and dominates the finish

Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate carbonation

Overall: Shy of juicy and somewhat austere but with a nice bitter finish

Thanks, JohnGalt1, for the opportunity

 

16oz can from Hops & Bottles. More orange than golden, fizzy, foamy head. Bready , fruity aroma, light citrus. Taste is tangerine, blood orange, zesty, soft bitterness. On the edge of being juicy.

Poured from a 16 ounce can into an IPA glass.

Look- Medium gold, sudsy white head, hazy, visible small particulate sediment, average head retention and lacing.

Smell- Floral, grassy, papaya, mango, guava.

Taste- Vienna malt makes this beer very Lager like, biscuit, earthy, piney.

Feel- Between thin and medium body, average carbonation, moderate bitterness, crisp, clean, Lager like.

Overall- Much more reminiscent of a Lager than a NEIPA.

 

 

16oz canned early April, poured into a can-shaped nonic.

A: Moderately-hazed gold with a soapy white head.

S: Fresh, hoppy nose leads with mango and some bright orange character; minor dankness and that signature HfoD grainy base.

T: Familiar Mosaic flavors of berries and mango flesh, with a mild impression of orange creamsicle as well; grainy malt base is minorly detectable, along with some green melon and dankness.

MF: Pillowy and light; faint bitterness; smooth.

O: A very good iteration in this series, with clear notes from both the Mosaic and Lotus hops. Consistent, and familiar.