Winter Ball
Idle Hands Craft Ales
- From:
- Idle Hands Craft Ales
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Hazy IPA
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 2.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 08, 2021
- Added:
- Jan 23, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
3.98/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Always enjoy trying new Idle Hands IPAs, as they tend to be pretty inspired and, more often than not, high quality enough to warrant blind-buying a four-pack. That's exactly what I did today when I took a trip to their brewery to grab some of this, the new batch of Six Seam (canned in the middle of last week; fresh batches of one of my favorite beers will always make me happy), and a blanket, because apparently they sell blankets now. My cat likes it, anyway, and we should have a few more weeks of cold weather here in MA, so I thought it made sense to buy.
The pour here is standard but nice; a very hazy orange beer, vibrant and juicy-looking, decants into my glass and builds up a couple fingers of foam that linger for quite a while. Eventually, they sink to a half-finger of loosely-composed suds that leave behind some decent-to-good lace. Legs are nice here, too, and the surface has a little bit of cohesion that I can appreciate. Overall, it's definitely a passable looking NEIPA that sticks to what you'd expect to see in this style.
I knew the nose here would be intriguing, but I was a little worried it would lean a bit heavily on the lime zest aspect. Motueka and Wakatu (which this beer features along with Vic Secret) both tend towards elements like that, in my experience, after all. My first few sniffs are a bit plain, but it starts to open up a tad after a few minutes in my glass. Impressions of ripe white grapefruit, key lime, crackery grains, and mango swirl about, giving me a decent feeling. At the same time, it seems firmly rooted within what I kind of expected here, so I'm just hoping the flavor profile holds up its end of the bargain.
On the tongue, this is quite a bit heavier than I'd like, with a wheat (and/or oat) driven heft being punctuated by heady flavors of lime, grapefruit zest, and mango with punctuated elements of light pine and papaya. Some backing notes of melon and tangerine in here, too. It's pretty much exactly what I expected, just with more body than you'd think for an under-7% ABV IPA. I'm not disappointed at all, though, and will definitely drink the other three cans I picked up.
Jan 24, 2021The pour here is standard but nice; a very hazy orange beer, vibrant and juicy-looking, decants into my glass and builds up a couple fingers of foam that linger for quite a while. Eventually, they sink to a half-finger of loosely-composed suds that leave behind some decent-to-good lace. Legs are nice here, too, and the surface has a little bit of cohesion that I can appreciate. Overall, it's definitely a passable looking NEIPA that sticks to what you'd expect to see in this style.
I knew the nose here would be intriguing, but I was a little worried it would lean a bit heavily on the lime zest aspect. Motueka and Wakatu (which this beer features along with Vic Secret) both tend towards elements like that, in my experience, after all. My first few sniffs are a bit plain, but it starts to open up a tad after a few minutes in my glass. Impressions of ripe white grapefruit, key lime, crackery grains, and mango swirl about, giving me a decent feeling. At the same time, it seems firmly rooted within what I kind of expected here, so I'm just hoping the flavor profile holds up its end of the bargain.
On the tongue, this is quite a bit heavier than I'd like, with a wheat (and/or oat) driven heft being punctuated by heady flavors of lime, grapefruit zest, and mango with punctuated elements of light pine and papaya. Some backing notes of melon and tangerine in here, too. It's pretty much exactly what I expected, just with more body than you'd think for an under-7% ABV IPA. I'm not disappointed at all, though, and will definitely drink the other three cans I picked up.
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