Distorted Treelines
Burley Oak Brewing Co.
- From:
- Burley Oak Brewing Co.
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10.2%
- Score:
- 92
- Avg:
- 4.26 | pDev: 4.69%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 17, 2021
- Added:
- Nov 12, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
92
Outstanding
92
Outstanding
Triple IPA hopped with Wai-Iti, Vic Secret, and Enigma. This beer stinks of pineapples and stone fruit while being complimented with heavy, pillowy flaked oat and wheat additions. Quit staring at the trees, man.
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Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
4.05/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Milky slightly dirty orange pour with a finger of bubbly white head.
Aroma on head is resinous and piney, but fades to more tropical with smell of pineapple, melon, grapefruit, peach.
Flavours of sweet tropical fruit - pineapple, mango, some musky melon, papaya. Transitions somewhat to a spicy slightly dank resinous hop bitterness with a touch of hop burn. Improved as warmed.
Smooth creamy moderate full mouthfeel - sweet yet a bit of lingering piney resin and that touch of hop burn.
Feb 17, 2021Aroma on head is resinous and piney, but fades to more tropical with smell of pineapple, melon, grapefruit, peach.
Flavours of sweet tropical fruit - pineapple, mango, some musky melon, papaya. Transitions somewhat to a spicy slightly dank resinous hop bitterness with a touch of hop burn. Improved as warmed.
Smooth creamy moderate full mouthfeel - sweet yet a bit of lingering piney resin and that touch of hop burn.
Reviewed by dbl_delta from Pennsylvania
4.32/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.32/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Growler into pint glass. Pours a murky amber with a persistent off-white head. Initial impression is juicy grapefruit, pineapple, mango, and orange, with a nice caramel malt backing things up. Mouthfeel verges on sticky; carbonation is perfect. Finish is juicy and fairly smooth. Overall, a very tasty NEIPA. I'm not a fan of fruited sours, so it's good to see Burley Oak can still brew a decent IPA!
Jan 24, 2021
Reviewed by smcolw from Massachusetts
4.25/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Super cloudy. Apricot juice appearance. Thick, moderate head. Recedes slowly leaving several thick rings, almost a blanket of lace.
Pineapple, orange, tutti fruity, and mango smell -- a veritable fruit salad.
Smooth body with a neutral carbonation. This beer is less sweet than the smell suggests. There's a bitterness not sensed in the aroma either.
Jan 06, 2019Pineapple, orange, tutti fruity, and mango smell -- a veritable fruit salad.
Smooth body with a neutral carbonation. This beer is less sweet than the smell suggests. There's a bitterness not sensed in the aroma either.
Rated by egrandfield from Massachusetts
4.65/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.65/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Like drinking pine and rock candy in a good way. Look was super hazy and almost milky. Really a weird beer, but one that I would have again for sure.
Dec 22, 2018
Reviewed by Lucular from Maryland
3.84/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 3.75
Appearance is like thick orange juice. Smell and taste are juicy cantaloupe and tropical fruit. The 10.2% abv is well hidden in all aspects. The mouthfeel is kind of off-putting - very thick and syrupy rather than pillowy or soft.
Nov 20, 2018
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.26/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.26/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
From a 16oz can, dated 10/17 maybe? And there's a '20' in there somewhere, too, I don't know why, everything's all blurry. Anyway, served in an IPA glass.
Pours a thick-and-murky appearing, dark apricot orange with nearly two fingers of dense, lathery, cream-coloured head. Retention is pretty good, leaving a thick, creamy collar and a fat cobwebbery of sticky lacing.
Smell is robust, sweet and juicy. Tropical fruit cocktail juice blend and the smell of laundry hung outside on the line to dry, whatever that is, maybe baking soda, citrus and sunshine. At any rate, it smells nice.
Taste is certainly juicy but not as sweet as expected. Dense and bready, with cantaloupe, apricot, grapefruit juice, orange peels and bhang water. Earthy, dense and dank, some baking soda-like drying with low-to-moderate bitterness. Grapefruit dominates the finish.
Feel is juicy, chewy, doughy, medium-hefty bodied with ample carbonation.
Overall, a pretty typical but thoroughly enjoyable NEDIPA. It's 10.2% abv, of which I had no idea until I read the label just now, so there's that for sure, that it hides its alcohol very well. I may have a little nap now.
Nov 12, 2018Pours a thick-and-murky appearing, dark apricot orange with nearly two fingers of dense, lathery, cream-coloured head. Retention is pretty good, leaving a thick, creamy collar and a fat cobwebbery of sticky lacing.
Smell is robust, sweet and juicy. Tropical fruit cocktail juice blend and the smell of laundry hung outside on the line to dry, whatever that is, maybe baking soda, citrus and sunshine. At any rate, it smells nice.
Taste is certainly juicy but not as sweet as expected. Dense and bready, with cantaloupe, apricot, grapefruit juice, orange peels and bhang water. Earthy, dense and dank, some baking soda-like drying with low-to-moderate bitterness. Grapefruit dominates the finish.
Feel is juicy, chewy, doughy, medium-hefty bodied with ample carbonation.
Overall, a pretty typical but thoroughly enjoyable NEDIPA. It's 10.2% abv, of which I had no idea until I read the label just now, so there's that for sure, that it hides its alcohol very well. I may have a little nap now.
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