Curiosity Eighty
Tree House Brewing Company
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- Style:
- IPA - Imperial
- ABV:
- 8.1%
- Score:
- 95
- Avg:
- 4.51 | pDev: 5.1%
- Reviews:
- 6
- Ratings:
- From:
- Tree House Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Avail:
- Retired (no longer brewed)
- Wants
- 1
- Gots
- 0
SCORE
95
World-Class
95
World-Class
Notes:
With Curiosity Eighty, we utilized a relatively crystal malt heavy grist in conjunction with fresh Galaxy, Simcoe, & Citra hops to try to achieve a nectar-like amalgamation of these additions. The resulting beer pours a rich orange color in the glass, and achieves heavy fruit-centric characteristics that are as much a function of carefully coaxed yeast ester development as they are a function of the fruity hop nature of the selected hops. We taste and smell heavy notes juicy fruit gum, peach nectar, honeydew melon, and ripe guava. This is a stand out rendition, indeed, and one that has us excited to fold what we learned from brewing it into our core line-up.
Reviews: 6
| Ratings: 45
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Reviews by CTHomer:
CTHomer from Connecticut
4.43/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A: cloudy; medium gold in color; 1+ finger ivory head that receded to a wispy cap; nice lacing;
S: the first thing that hit me was dankness; there's also pineapple, orange, and mango;
T: predominantly cantaloupe and honey dew; some dankness and orange behind that; very mild bitterness on the finish;
M: medium bodied; moderate soft carbonation; moderately dry finish;
O: not sure I've ever gotten that much melon character from hops before;
Apr 16, 2020
4.43/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A: cloudy; medium gold in color; 1+ finger ivory head that receded to a wispy cap; nice lacing;
S: the first thing that hit me was dankness; there's also pineapple, orange, and mango;
T: predominantly cantaloupe and honey dew; some dankness and orange behind that; very mild bitterness on the finish;
M: medium bodied; moderate soft carbonation; moderately dry finish;
O: not sure I've ever gotten that much melon character from hops before;
Apr 16, 2020
More User Reviews:
SebastianOwl from Massachusetts
4.38/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Nov 16, 2019
4.38/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Nov 16, 2019
PhineasMcClintock from Massachusetts
4.25/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Nov 24, 2019
4.25/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Nov 24, 2019
DucksFan16 from Alaska
4.02/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Aug 30, 2020
4.02/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Aug 30, 2020
Mrthetank from Virginia
4.59/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 30, 2019
4.59/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 30, 2019
wafers from New York
4.51/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 12, 2019
4.51/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 12, 2019
davidmm from New York
4.78/5 rDev +6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Nov 19, 2019
4.78/5 rDev +6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Nov 19, 2019
JimmyAddo from Massachusetts
4.62/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 23, 2019
4.62/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 23, 2019
rudzud from Massachusetts
4.56/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Picked up a few cans of this at the brewery last week.
A - Poured into my Duvel tulip a nice super hazy deep orange with flashes of gold hue with a fat almost three finger white head that faded slowly to leave thick lacing and a dense, creamy blanket.
S - Aromas of big, almost musty tropical fruits and citrus. Pineapple, papaya, light flashes of guava. Big clementine oranges with some well rounded dankness. Flashes of pine from the Simcoe with some much dank hops going on it almost over shoots into the earthy realm of hop aromas.
T - Taste is similar to the nose with big bright tropical pineapple notes as well as some generic fruits and maybe a flash of stone fruit. More of that dank hop flavour. I swear I almost get a kiwi like flavour along with melon. As it warms guava comes out more, especially on the finish to go along with more of that fun melon taste. There are good juicy citrus and almost bubblegum like flavour smack dab in the middle before it goes to those really interesting muskmelon flavours. Up front it's flavour profile is more of the usual Tree House, however, that finish is definitely something new...or at the very least uncommon.
M - Mouthfeel is nicely carbonated, creamy, fluffy, alcohol hidden well. Typical Tree House mouthfeel.
O - Overall this was very, VERY enjoyable mostly because of that finishing flavour. The tropical citrus flavour that's up front is fairly typical for Tree House but that melon on the backend is far from common. That combination is really something. I wish it was a little more assertive on the nose but overall this is incredibly, incredibly nice. Sometimes Tree House beers come across as 'green' when they're really fresh but this doesn't suffer from that at all. Excellent.
Serving Type: Can
Nov 12, 2019
4.56/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Picked up a few cans of this at the brewery last week.
A - Poured into my Duvel tulip a nice super hazy deep orange with flashes of gold hue with a fat almost three finger white head that faded slowly to leave thick lacing and a dense, creamy blanket.
S - Aromas of big, almost musty tropical fruits and citrus. Pineapple, papaya, light flashes of guava. Big clementine oranges with some well rounded dankness. Flashes of pine from the Simcoe with some much dank hops going on it almost over shoots into the earthy realm of hop aromas.
T - Taste is similar to the nose with big bright tropical pineapple notes as well as some generic fruits and maybe a flash of stone fruit. More of that dank hop flavour. I swear I almost get a kiwi like flavour along with melon. As it warms guava comes out more, especially on the finish to go along with more of that fun melon taste. There are good juicy citrus and almost bubblegum like flavour smack dab in the middle before it goes to those really interesting muskmelon flavours. Up front it's flavour profile is more of the usual Tree House, however, that finish is definitely something new...or at the very least uncommon.
M - Mouthfeel is nicely carbonated, creamy, fluffy, alcohol hidden well. Typical Tree House mouthfeel.
O - Overall this was very, VERY enjoyable mostly because of that finishing flavour. The tropical citrus flavour that's up front is fairly typical for Tree House but that melon on the backend is far from common. That combination is really something. I wish it was a little more assertive on the nose but overall this is incredibly, incredibly nice. Sometimes Tree House beers come across as 'green' when they're really fresh but this doesn't suffer from that at all. Excellent.
Serving Type: Can
Nov 12, 2019
rorjets from Connecticut
4.46/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Jan 10, 2020
4.46/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Jan 10, 2020
7irondave from Massachusetts
4.61/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Nov 16, 2019
4.61/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Nov 16, 2019
fossage78 from Massachusetts
4.25/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Feb 14, 2020
4.25/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Feb 14, 2020
WunderLlama from Massachusetts
4.52/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Canned 11.5.19, opened 11.24.19
“Buzzin’ for all the juicy fruit”
Can poured into a Treehouse Teku, frothy, soapy, big bubbled two finger white foam crown, great retention, great lacings, hazy orange liquid
Aroma is citrus rind, orange, tangerine, juicy fruit gum
Taste is juicy fruit gum hops
Medium sudsing , hop taste, no bite
Good beer
Nov 24, 2019
4.52/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Canned 11.5.19, opened 11.24.19
“Buzzin’ for all the juicy fruit”
Can poured into a Treehouse Teku, frothy, soapy, big bubbled two finger white foam crown, great retention, great lacings, hazy orange liquid
Aroma is citrus rind, orange, tangerine, juicy fruit gum
Taste is juicy fruit gum hops
Medium sudsing , hop taste, no bite
Good beer
Nov 24, 2019
Taycro from Massachusetts
4.73/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Nov 11, 2019
4.73/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Nov 11, 2019
Nichols33 from Massachusetts
4.5/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 22, 2019
4.5/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 22, 2019
EMV from Pennsylvania
4.5/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured from a tallboy can into a Dogfish Head tulip
L: Hazed juicy pour with 2 fingers of thick foamy white head. Great lacing.
S: Citrus rind... tropical fruit and orange. Pineapple and mango.
T.F: Just like it smells. Big time juicy... citrus and rind, tropical fruits... mango, guava, pineapple. Creamy on the mouthfeel and medium bodied. A bit sticky. More citrus and fruit at the finish.
O: A fantastic DIPA. Checks all the boxes for the style. Outstanding.
Nov 12, 2019
4.5/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured from a tallboy can into a Dogfish Head tulip
L: Hazed juicy pour with 2 fingers of thick foamy white head. Great lacing.
S: Citrus rind... tropical fruit and orange. Pineapple and mango.
T.F: Just like it smells. Big time juicy... citrus and rind, tropical fruits... mango, guava, pineapple. Creamy on the mouthfeel and medium bodied. A bit sticky. More citrus and fruit at the finish.
O: A fantastic DIPA. Checks all the boxes for the style. Outstanding.
Nov 12, 2019
unclekeith from Alaska
4.13/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Mar 05, 2020
4.13/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Mar 05, 2020
redsoxjim from Massachusetts
4.06/5 rDev -10%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Nov 23, 2019
4.06/5 rDev -10%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Nov 23, 2019
odenbr12 from New Jersey
4.65/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Dec 21, 2019
4.65/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Dec 21, 2019
Ice_Cream_And_IPAs from New York
4.46/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Nov 22, 2019
4.46/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Nov 22, 2019
Cwarwick812 from Massachusetts
4.59/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 25, 2019
4.59/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 25, 2019
tigg924 from Massachusetts
4.83/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Pours hazy, orange gold in color, with 1/3 inch head. Taste is pineapple, melon, lychee, and peach. Medium-heavy bodied, medium low carbonation, sweet. Tastes like Very Green with a more oaty body. One of the better curiosities that I have had. Should have gotten more of this. Way better than the Curiosity 81 that I just had.
Nov 12, 2019
4.83/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Pours hazy, orange gold in color, with 1/3 inch head. Taste is pineapple, melon, lychee, and peach. Medium-heavy bodied, medium low carbonation, sweet. Tastes like Very Green with a more oaty body. One of the better curiosities that I have had. Should have gotten more of this. Way better than the Curiosity 81 that I just had.
Nov 12, 2019
hughesm12 from Massachusetts
4.88/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
Nov 19, 2019
4.88/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
Nov 19, 2019
edthehead from New York
4.4/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 16, 2019
4.4/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Nov 16, 2019
DaveCash from New York
4.48/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Jan 22, 2020
4.48/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Jan 22, 2020
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