Curiosity Eighty Four
Tree House Brewing Company
- From:
- Tree House Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.9%
- Score:
- 93
- Avg:
- 4.27 | pDev: 6.32%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 9
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 21, 2024
- Added:
- Dec 06, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
The Curiosity series is critically important to our evolution as craftspeople; it enables us to explore process variables well outside the box of day to day brewing without affecting the quality and consistency of our core offerings as well as experiment with unfamiliar ingredients. To that end, we are pleased to present Curiosity Eighty four today for your enjoyment! Utilizing a blend of fruity American hops paired with new-age fruity German hops. The result is a subtle, gentle, well-integrated beer with virtually no bitterness and dense juicy character. Eighty Four pours a yellow color in the glass and puts out flavors and aromas of summer melon, gooseberry, and apricot with whispers of vanilla, orange, and fruity herbal tea. A soft, gentle, supple, and highly unique addition to our innovative and important series - enjoy!
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Reviewed by moysauce from Illinois
4.25/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
From December 22, 2019, via my untappd "4.25++ Great beer. Nose is excellent. One of the better IPAs and curiosities I've had in a while." Gotta say - the can art on this one was next level.
Mar 21, 2024
Rated by gooddaydiablo from Texas
4.25/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
"live life qualitatively" 12/06/19
Apr 24, 2020
Reviewed by Hopheadjeffery from Illinois
4.29/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.29/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on December 25, 2019. Brewed with a blend of fruity American and German hops. Juicy with a medium to full body and little to no bitterness.
Mar 06, 2020
Reviewed by agreenman19 from Connecticut
4.1/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
L - pours a mango orange with light straw yellowy-ness. Minimal slick, oily head.
S - fruity and rindy. Lemon, lime zest, papaya, and candle wax.
T - prickly pink grapefruit and smoothing melon bubblegum. Crisp acidity. Clementine rind, lemon pith, and apricot. Getting that vaguely Belgian spice as the German hops shine through. Old bananas and apples. Despite the description, there's some bitterness in here at the end. Numbing and tingling with moderate dryness.
F - creamy and fluffy. There's a bit of suffocating pillowyness, much like gasping for your last breath under a pillow held down by someone you once trusted.
O - not sure how I feel about the German twang mixed in with typical Tree House fruity fare. Scales back the juiciness in favor of tangy zestiness. It is a welcome divergence, though.
Jan 17, 2020S - fruity and rindy. Lemon, lime zest, papaya, and candle wax.
T - prickly pink grapefruit and smoothing melon bubblegum. Crisp acidity. Clementine rind, lemon pith, and apricot. Getting that vaguely Belgian spice as the German hops shine through. Old bananas and apples. Despite the description, there's some bitterness in here at the end. Numbing and tingling with moderate dryness.
F - creamy and fluffy. There's a bit of suffocating pillowyness, much like gasping for your last breath under a pillow held down by someone you once trusted.
O - not sure how I feel about the German twang mixed in with typical Tree House fruity fare. Scales back the juiciness in favor of tangy zestiness. It is a welcome divergence, though.
Reviewed by brewandbbq from New Hampshire
4.46/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
16oz can dated 12/6/19.
Pours cloudy gold with an inch of white fluff. Decent retention and lacing. Peach, orange, mango, and pineapple in the nose. Medium bodied with a creamy, soft mouthfeel. Sugar-dusted grapefruit with pithy orange and unripe peach on the palate. Finishes with zero malt and lingering tropicals.
Jan 13, 2020Pours cloudy gold with an inch of white fluff. Decent retention and lacing. Peach, orange, mango, and pineapple in the nose. Medium bodied with a creamy, soft mouthfeel. Sugar-dusted grapefruit with pithy orange and unripe peach on the palate. Finishes with zero malt and lingering tropicals.
Reviewed by kevanb from Illinois
4.26/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
16oz can, dated 12.06.19, poured into a Tree House snifter glass.
The beer pours a very hazy golden amber color, honey hues with a finger or two of foamy white head that has good retention and excellent lacing. The aroma is lovely, bright melon fruit, juicy and tangy tropical fruits, very bright and inviting, lightly floral with a bit of berry fruit, soft pale gains and mineral water. The flavors are great, bursting with tropical fruits, tangy and fresh, juicy and sweet melon, cantaloupe and honeydew, with some berry and green bitter hop, resinous pine yet lightly floral with a nice base of sweet pale dough and mineral water. The mouthfeel is great, coating and smooth but with a nice lively texture and a nice dry bite.
Verdict: A delicious IPA from Tree House. The melon and tropical fruit character is great and breaks from the mold of the current en vogue IPAs. Balanced, bright, refreshing and just an easy crushable beer, even at nearly 8% ABV. A very worthy brew!
Jan 01, 2020The beer pours a very hazy golden amber color, honey hues with a finger or two of foamy white head that has good retention and excellent lacing. The aroma is lovely, bright melon fruit, juicy and tangy tropical fruits, very bright and inviting, lightly floral with a bit of berry fruit, soft pale gains and mineral water. The flavors are great, bursting with tropical fruits, tangy and fresh, juicy and sweet melon, cantaloupe and honeydew, with some berry and green bitter hop, resinous pine yet lightly floral with a nice base of sweet pale dough and mineral water. The mouthfeel is great, coating and smooth but with a nice lively texture and a nice dry bite.
Verdict: A delicious IPA from Tree House. The melon and tropical fruit character is great and breaks from the mold of the current en vogue IPAs. Balanced, bright, refreshing and just an easy crushable beer, even at nearly 8% ABV. A very worthy brew!
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