Curiosity Forty Four
Tree House Brewing Company

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From:
Tree House Brewing Company
 
Massachusetts, United States
Style:
New England IPA
ABV:
7.8%
Score:
98
Avg:
4.5 | pDev: 5.33%
Reviews:
13
Ratings:
92
Status:
Retired
Rated:
May 12, 2019
Added:
Jan 12, 2018
Wants:
  5
Gots:
  14
The art and science of brewing continues to captivate us - every opportunity to experiment in search of how to improve our beer, and to further our understanding of what ultimately makes a beer enjoyable, enriches our spirit! To that end, Curiosity Forty Four combines several of our very favorite American and Australian hops, including Galaxy, Citra, Simcoe, and Amarillo in the kettle and heavy doses of Citra and Galaxy in the dry hop. The result is a heavily tropical Double IPA dripping with fruity hop oil saturation. Utilizing a new technique, the majority of the carbonation in Forty Four developed naturally in the fermenter during conditioning. The result is a uniquely soft body and tight carbonation lending supreme drinkability and flavor that ignites the senses and invites the next sip. We hope it can contribute in a meaningful way to a special moment in your life.
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Ratings by RAlmeida77:
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Rated by RAlmeida77 from Massachusetts

4.37/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Jan 21, 2018
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Reviewed by amano_h from Oregon

4.5/5  rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Given the nature of experimentation in and of itself, I'm surprised that the Curiosity series has remained so consistently sought after, to the point that Tree House Brewing Company have already made forty four iterations of this and sold out each time. That's kind of like a public defender going to trial forty four times and coming out unscathed on every occasion; either Tree House just comes up with brilliant ideas that can't seem to fail each time, or they have a whole lot of luck on their side, or maybe they're not quite as "curious" as they make themselves out to be.

Whatever the causation may be, I couldn't care less; this beer is drinking mighty fine.

A harmonious mixture of melon, oranges, golden kiwi, fuzzy stone fruit, and a hint of wheat adorn the sensation package lambasted upon the nose. Whereas Tree House describes this as a "heavily tropical DIPA dripping with fruity hop oil saturation," there's really no sense of extravagance or brutishness that stands out or makes you want to take it slow; the multifarious range of aromas co-habitate peacefully so not to disturb or outshine one another, although melon, orange, and wheat is what seems to persevere on the nose until the very last drop.

The overall impression on the tongue leans more towards bitter than fruity. Melon rinds, dried orange peel, endives, a little peach, and even some pine surface toward the back to reward you for your patience. As aforementioned the brew finishes decisively dry--it's an odd kind of dry; not exactly the dryness which cleanses your palate and immediately drops off the face of the earth, but it's more like you're navigating through a field of dry proximity mines and each step you take sets off a bitter explosion--with all this happening after you've taken the sip. TL;DR the bitterness lingers on, but not in an unpleasant way.

Definitively medium-bodied with a nice sticky almost gritty consistency.

A reasonably and admirably persistent medium veering towards effervescent carbonation persists throughout the entire drinking experience; this beer has like a permanent quarter-finger head which doesn't disappear no matter how far you progress down the glass. I don't think I've ever experienced anything quite like it.
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I feel like I've been very lax with my grading system lately, but compared to all the commercial IPAs brewed with stale hops or the three-month old kegs of Sculpin that were selling out at $10 in Korea, these beers have been an absolute god send. Years later, when after I graduate law school and pass the bar and people ask me how I survived law school, my answer will most likely be "#hazebros and BA barleywine."
May 12, 2019
 
Rated: 4.5 by Xantanamoss from Connecticut

Nov 29, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by pavpav12 from Pennsylvania

Nov 28, 2018
 
Rated: 4.5 by TangoJuliet from New York

Nov 10, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by fossage78 from Massachusetts

Sep 26, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by captainkrad from New Jersey

Jun 30, 2018
 
Rated: 4.86 by Patlee3324 from Massachusetts

Jun 26, 2018
 
Rated: 5 by Kwright from North Carolina

Jun 22, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by Juggerr from New York

May 29, 2018
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Reviewed by LeeeMare from Massachusetts

4.08/5  rDev -9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
As a stand alone this beer was solid but sometimes you just have to blend you own beers and these Curiosity Fourty Four really enhanced the beers they were mixed with.
Apr 18, 2018
 
Rated: 5 by hughesm12 from Massachusetts

Apr 08, 2018
 
Rated: 4.39 by bhatch729 from Massachusetts

Apr 08, 2018
 
Rated: 4.53 by smi69 from New York

Apr 07, 2018
 
Rated: 4.39 by JimmyAddo from Massachusetts

Mar 24, 2018
 
Rated: 4.45 by seansween from New Jersey

Mar 23, 2018
 
Rated: 4.74 by thatoneguymike from Georgia

Mar 23, 2018
 
Rated: 4.5 by lupercmda from North Carolina

Mar 22, 2018
 
Rated: 4.5 by Cwarwick812 from Massachusetts

Mar 17, 2018
 
Rated: 4.33 by Datdubj1988 from Iowa

Mar 13, 2018
Curiosity Forty Four from Tree House Brewing Company
Beer rating: 98 out of 100 with 92 ratings