Suspended Particle
Three Heads Brewing

This beer should have its New England DIPA style more clearly indicated, for those of us who don't believe a true IPA has wheat and oats in it. In this limited edition fundraiser for ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), there's plenty of unmalted wheat, flaked wheat and flaked oats wafting in a dense turbid cloud around the beautiful hopping and barely discernible barley malts (2-row pale & CaraMunich). It's one of the few double NEIPAs I've found really tasty, probably because its hops are so interesting. Is it the "experimental" unnamed hop bringing its grassy lawn smell and gently persistent bitterness? I first tried this in a beersnob tasting session yesterday evening. We enjoyed it so thoroughly that we had to drink two to figure it out. Liked it so much I rushed downtown to get the last two four-packs left at the Finger Lakes Beverage Center. Too many NEIPAs feel like feeble attempts to avoid hop bitterness; this is a bitter disappointment for my palate, which craves good biting bitter above any of the other four flavors (after bitter I like salt best, then sour, then umami, with sweet last). The cushy starchy gruel coating that most New English Style brews use to lure lollypop lovers into the beer world is not present among the particles suspended in this opaque NEDIPA, and I may find myself able to actually enjoy brewed wheat and oats after drinking more of this fine porridge juice. I still prefer Three Heads' Tre Kind Triple IPA, but this excellent NE brew feels charitable in more ways than one. I do like oatmeal and well baked wheat bread, after all; maybe I'll get over my NEIPA aversion with more practice on brews like this.

 

 

 

Juicy, piney and hazy NEIPA. Well done!

 

 

Grabbed. 4 pack at 1SBS in Rochester mostly because of Ales for ALS charity collab and some good feedback in the shop.
Had an interesting tasting with a few folks... my Brit brother in law; son and friend from San Diego and myself. We drank this next to an eclectic mix of good brews...Lawson Sip of Sunshine; Grimm Half Tone and Surley Todd the Axeman.
All agreed Suspended Particle held up very well. All grabbed a glass for themselves after the tasting.
Well built DIPA. Good looking and Smooth. Nice grassy malty nose with hints of bitterness. Hop profile in taste was very good. Well balanced bitterness not over the top... solid but only 60 IBUs in this DIPA. Experimental mix of hops that also included Ekuanot, Simcoe additions. Malt backbone was Pale and Munich.
Overall a tasty well made brew that was embraced by Hop heads from SoCal to a transplanted non-hop Head Brit. I liked it a lot and would like try it next on tap.