Salute (2017)
Backlash Beer Company
- From:
- Backlash Beer Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 2.65%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 02, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 23, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
4.25/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Looks like Backlash re-brewed their original DIPA at Dorchester Brewing Co. recently. Though the ABV has dropped from 8.5% to a straight 8%, this is still hopped with Citra and Simcoe with some Amarillo for good measure, a reference to when they were provided these hops by Sam Adams'/Boston Beer Co.'s hop sharing program a few years back. I remember really digging this when it first came out, so it's time to see how it has stood up to about 4 years of trendy changes to the DIPA landscape. This will also be my first consumed beer from Dorchester Brewing Co., which is Boston's first contract-brew-only brewing outfit. Exciting things are happening there with some high profile brewers, so let's see how they do with this one.
Pours a light-medium amber with golden highlights and a dense, foamy and creamy looking head of bone-white foam that leaves behind some really nice, tiered and well-structured lace as it slowly fades away to a single finger in my glass. Very hazy appearance but not completely turbid. Pretty damn solid pour.
Nose is piney, grassy and dank at first, moving into some light notes of candied citrus, sniffs of ethanol and decently apparent pale malt backbone. A very slight tropical fruit note comes out too after a bit, but I feel like I have to really be looking for it to pick it up. Mostly this is green-smelling with some orange/grapefruit peel elements. It's kind of amusing because this feels really "2013 IPA" to me in the nose, which makes a lot of sense as things were a bit more simple back then. This is a nice smelling beer that reminds me of the days before Mosaic and super-cloudy/starchy NEIPAs. Not that those are bad (and many are quite fantastic), but it does bring me back in a sense.
Crisp and even-bodied with a surprisingly nice malt backbone that has just the right amount of interplay between caramel malt and dank, green and juicy hops. Really liking the way this one drinks. Again, it reminds me of the good ol' days when New England IPA was not a defined terminology. Big, sticky and resinous, this is just a nice DIPA that I wish came around more often these days. Citra and Simcoe play off each other really well here, really pushing the grapefruit and heady, earthy pine elements, especially in the mid-palate. Nice pillowy feel and soft-ish carbonation give this a nice, palatable chewiness without discounting the bright hops at all. Backlash has suffered a lot of delays and misfortune while they've been in the process of building up both their brand and their actual brewery, but this beer is kind of a reminder of how worthy they are.
Mar 23, 2017Pours a light-medium amber with golden highlights and a dense, foamy and creamy looking head of bone-white foam that leaves behind some really nice, tiered and well-structured lace as it slowly fades away to a single finger in my glass. Very hazy appearance but not completely turbid. Pretty damn solid pour.
Nose is piney, grassy and dank at first, moving into some light notes of candied citrus, sniffs of ethanol and decently apparent pale malt backbone. A very slight tropical fruit note comes out too after a bit, but I feel like I have to really be looking for it to pick it up. Mostly this is green-smelling with some orange/grapefruit peel elements. It's kind of amusing because this feels really "2013 IPA" to me in the nose, which makes a lot of sense as things were a bit more simple back then. This is a nice smelling beer that reminds me of the days before Mosaic and super-cloudy/starchy NEIPAs. Not that those are bad (and many are quite fantastic), but it does bring me back in a sense.
Crisp and even-bodied with a surprisingly nice malt backbone that has just the right amount of interplay between caramel malt and dank, green and juicy hops. Really liking the way this one drinks. Again, it reminds me of the good ol' days when New England IPA was not a defined terminology. Big, sticky and resinous, this is just a nice DIPA that I wish came around more often these days. Citra and Simcoe play off each other really well here, really pushing the grapefruit and heady, earthy pine elements, especially in the mid-palate. Nice pillowy feel and soft-ish carbonation give this a nice, palatable chewiness without discounting the bright hops at all. Backlash has suffered a lot of delays and misfortune while they've been in the process of building up both their brand and their actual brewery, but this beer is kind of a reminder of how worthy they are.
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