Plant Based With Mango & Palm Sugar
Stillwater Artisanal Ales

Interesting. There's a sediment you can watch settle.
This has a sweet scent, primarily of mango. Pours with a minimal head, but with a persistent ring as you sip.
The taste is sweet, too, mango fortified by palm sugar, and it finishes crisp with a back bitterness.

 

16oz can. Poured out a cloudy, golden orange color with a small, white head of bubbly foam. It left minimal lacing. It smelled of sugary sweetness, mango, orange and caramel sweetness. So sweet with mango, sugar, caramel and a sharp bitterness. Sharp and crisp.

A: The beer is very hazy to cloudy and murky dark yellow in color. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that left delicate wisps of bubbles on the surface and lots of lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of lime and stone fruit are present in the nose along with notes of mangos.
T: The taste follows the smell and has flavors of citrusy and tropical fruit hops with some herbal hints. No bitterness is perceptible.
M: It feels medium-bodied, a little crisp, and somewhat juicy on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I thought this beer would be bursting with flavors of mangos and palm sugar but the smell and taste seemed to be more dominated by the aromas and flavors from the hops.

Serving type: can

a strong hazy ipa with mango, not the best of their work, a little unrefined, but a tasty one to share with my wife, who i bought the can for, with the call out for being vegan and plant based, kind of her thing these days, so it made sense. its really quite thick and murky in the glass, a little orange tinted from the fruit maybe, but really sedimented and almost sloppy looking, kind of raw, pretty quick fade on the head too. it smells only slightly fruity to me, mango yes, but also just kind of generic tropical with a little orange juice from concentrate thing going on as well, fully compatible hops in the mix here too, but maybe a little overdosed, there is an apparent green vegetal element to this, and a little doughy thing to the yeast as well. the flavor is kind of separated, fruit up front, hops in the back. the fruit is never too sweet and is more obviously mango than it smells, although still citrusy too. the hops have a little green bite and more bitterness than the hazy ones usually have, but they arent real interesting to me, and i dont love the way this comes together. i also think the alcohol pokes through a little bit in an unflattering way, like this is definitely on the stronger side, very apparent when drinking. i dont get a huge contribution from the palm sugar either, but i dont want this to be sweet or anything, so i am okay with that. i think it could be cleaned up a bit, and really isnt among the best of the stillwater beers, but i appreciate the diversity in their lineup and am thankful to be seeing a steady stream of their stuff coming into idaho. ill keep on buying it!