Beginner's Mind
Tree House Brewing Company

Another pickup from earlier in the year. You know, I found two cans in the back of the fridge, and was amazed how little if any they had fallen off 4 months later.

Pours clearly a hazy dipa, plenty of thickness in that pour. The color itself isn't very sexy, its like a beige. But it rocks a full 1" of head space. The aroma didn't hit as hard as most hoppy dipas from TH. Some citrus. Light mango. Maybe even a bittering hop up in there.

Taste was good, the expected interplay of citrus and tropical fruit. Hides alcohol and bitterness well, its pretty smooth, it just doesn't feel like it has that massive Tree House hop bill. Seems like a subdued beer despite cries to the contrary. Subdued doesn't equal not good either. Shit Heineken and Amstel's light beers are subdued and they are the best in style. This is still a very well made, very good tasting beer. Sometimes you can be a victim of your own success to some degree. This is still better than 88% of dipas out there.

 

Looks like orange juice in my glass, if orange produced a substantial white head that laced my glass like Velcro. The nose is tropical fruit juice, with ripe tangerine, mango, pineapple, grapefruit, and passion fruit. This is NOT a subdued beer.

The tangerine is forward and absolutely delicious, with mango, pineapple, grapefruit, passion fruit, and probably a dozen other tropical flavors coming together for a beer nerd’s equivalent to the best tropical fruit juice box ever.

 

“Shall we start over?” 12/08/21
This is voluptuous. An absurd concoction of massively juicy and tropical hops with a clean, almost herbal finish. Very unique among all the hop bombs from TH I’ve consumed recently. What a beer!

From a 16oz can dated 12/8/21 into a tulip.

Pours an opaque orangish, brownish yellow with about three fingers of off-white head. Great retention and lacing.

Smells of oranges, mango and pineapple.

Taste follows. Nice piney bitter kick on the backend of the sip.

Full-bodied. Medium carbonation. Slight bitter, juicy aftertaste.

You know you've tapped into a great brewery when you're drinking a beer this amazing and can say it's not their best.

 

 

 

 

Okay, Tree House really needs to start dating their bottles. I know they don't use the bottle format even close to as much as cans, but this is the 3rd bottled brew from my latest TH run and I'm sick of not seeing dates. I'm assuming this is quite fresh, but we'll soon see. Rant aside, this is one of their last core NEIPAs that I've yet to try, as it seems they've been out of it most of the times I made a trip there, so I'm excited for it

Pours a hazy pale orange with 3 fingers of fine white head that slowly fades to a cap and leaves nice lacing

Alright, even with the lack of packaging date, I can confidently say this is fresh from the nose alone, it's just so vibrant. I'm picking up on aromas of orange rind, papaya, crackery malt, grassy herbal hops, tangerine, dank guava, white pepper, and a touch of weed

This is definitely young and green in taste as well, the hops are almost at a pungent level. On the front end of the sip I'm tasting pithy grapefruit, herbal hops, juicy cantaloupe, orange juice, bready malt, tart pineapple, and light toasted grain. The swallow brings notes of overripe cantaloupe, tangerine, crackery malt, pithy grapefruit, fresh cut grass, creamy peach and an odd but welcome minty hop character

A medium body pairs with gentle airy carbonation, resulting in a very smooth yet biting beer. Finishes mostly dry with a balanced herbal bitterness

This is for sure one of the most impressive Tree House NEIPAs I've had in recent memory. It's not overly complex, interesting, and drinks much lighter than it actually is. Very happy I have 3 more bottles left

 

 

 

 

Really, really good. I honestly don’t feel like describing this one. Its just a perfect beer. Just try it.

 

This was dank and juicy in both the nose and flavor, which is standard operating procedure for Tree House. In addition to the grapefruit, orange, pineapple and melon, there was a mix of tropical fruit and a nice malty backbone. As usual, the ABV was completely masked and it went down smooth and easy.

 

Canned on 8/12/21; consumed on 8/29/21

Pours a turbid, almost milky burnt orange body capped with three fingers of dense, fluffy, off-white foam; excellent head retention fades to ¾ of a finger of taut, soapy, cap, a medium-sized, frothy collar, and a generous walling of chunky, soapy lacing coating the walls of the glass.

Aromas of overripe peach and creamy orange open to dank lychee with an underlying progression of waxy white grape over the middle, with underripe guava nodding towards resinous strawberry tones on the back end into lime hard candy lingering through the close.

Taste shows overripe clementine contrasting growing citrus undertones of pink guava and orange pulp, peaking with a passionfruit zing over the mid-palate and fading into the back end with intermittent grapefruit zest and grassy bubblegum yeast characteristics.

Mouthfeel brings a medium body, semi-creamy in consistency while sporting an underlying resinous grit, along with subtle, fluffy, moderate carbonation dispersing an easy prickle over the mid-palate; the faintest, hop acidic twang enlivens the back end where a slight juicy quality peeks through, though ultimately can't stave off a spiky, herbal bitterness on the finish.

Tree House's baseline standard of intense tropical fruit expression flows in waves over this NEIPA with some welcome, dank edges, though a more unrefined hop texture presents on occasion, bringing a level of inconsistency to an otherwise higher-tier offering.