Living Color
Full Pint Brewing Company

 

 

 

Poured into a grip shaped goblet: murky dark copper color, head is light tan and good looking, but the color seems off based on other reviews.

Smell is light blueberry and bitter hops, a bit muddled with a lean towards resin, earth, pine. Light caramel note.

Taste is similar to what Woody noted - blueberry, pine, grapefruit rind, and light caramel. It seems to be past its prime but still nice to have a bitter DIPA.

Mouthfeel is low/moderate carbonation, then light sweetness but not full as the hops overtake and dry it out with the strong bitterness.

Overall a drinkable DIPA but seems to get muddled in the mix of hops and use of caramel malts.

 

Welcome to my continuing delving into Hoppy New Full Pint Sunday (Week 704)! This serves to dual purpose of creating this week's theme as well as continuing the eradication of The Bottle Backlog at Chez Woody. The latter is actually a finite proposition as I am buying fewer & fewer bottles anyway.

From the Bottle: "Beer Nerd Stats: OG: 17.8// 8.0% ABV // 100+ IBU Malts: Pils, Carapils, Amber Hops: Simcoe, Warrior, Columbus, Cascade "; "Label Art by Phil Seth @PHILSETHCREATIVE".

Yay, Simcoe the Kitty is involved in this one. Beers are sometimes described as being "catty" or having a "cattiness" & it is usually due to the use/presence of Simcoe hops. The cat's quality being alluded to is its urine & some/many people do not like it due to a sensitivity or just as a general thing. Personally, I really dig it, but I'm always the duty weirdo at these parties. Someday, I would like to have a kit-ten & her name will be "Simcoe". Further, I imagine her to look like @Dan_K 's avatar.

As soon as I Pop!ped the cap, I knew that Simcoe had paid a visit! I followed that bit of news with a slow, gentle pour into the awaiting glass since it looked as though there may be particulate. For the umpteenth time today, the beer simply had a light haze so I now wonder if Full Pint B.C. lightly filters their beers or if my reefer's internal temp causes chill haze in their beers more readily than in other brewers' beers. Hmm. An in-glass swirl raised just under two fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, bone-white head with decent retention that left a load of lacing in its wake. Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5), but it was already beginning to clarify as I typed. Very curious! I leaned in for a sniff & in addition to Simcoe's naughty business, it had notes of blueberries, pine resin, grapefruit and light caramel. Thank good ness for the last since a little caramel malt can go a long way! Mouthfeel was full & creamy, like a dollop had been scooped onto my tongue. My previous one from them, an AIPA called Chinookie, had a similar quality & I might have doubted myself were it not for a hiatus that included a Thai dinner with my aunt & two uncles, followed by a nap. The taste had a pronounced bitterness with the different hops from the ones used in Chinookie creating something more citrusy and fruity than the pine resin of Chinookie. Here, I got a lot of fruitiness, some of it citrusy, some of it more berry-like, all of it underlain by a cool, piney resinousness. Mmm. Leave it to my homeboys to make something that I really like. I also really liked that the caramel sweetness did not really appear until the finish, adding a light sweetness to the coolness of the pine. Taking a deep breath after each sip was like standing in the midst of a pine forest as it snows and simply inhaling. Get the sensation! Mmm.