Juice Project - Citra + Chinook
Tree House Brewing Company

 

 

16oz can dated 7/20/21.

Pours cloudy yellow with a persistent head and plenty of spongy lacing. Peach, pineapple, mango, orange, and papaya in the nose. Medium bodied with a soft mouthfeel. Tropical citrus awash the palate with minimal malt or bitterness. Mango, peach, grapefruit, and tangerine. Finishes juicy and ripe.

Canned on 07-20-21, thank you PhineasMcClintock for this can!

A - Dark opaque golden orange color with a dense, frothy white lacing ring that's really sticky on the sides of the glass.

S - Spicy fruit rind, peach, spicy grapefruit rind, citrus, and passion fruit.

T - Peach, spicy peach skin, some grapefruit, lime, and finishes balanced with a nod towards the sweeter side with an underlying pine bitterness and lingering resiny citrus and peach.

M - Robust body that's chewy and pillowy soft.

O - A little subdued but rock solid.

 

 

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass canned 7/20/21. Pours a very attractive hazy orange yellow with a finger sticky white head that leaves thin streaks of lace with nice nice retention. 4.5

Aroma is peach, melon, papaya, mandarin, and apricot. 4.25

Taste follows peach, cantaloupe, papaya, mandarin, and apricot balanced and really nice. 4.25

Mouthfeel is pretty big, not sticky or dry, soft gentle creamy carbonation, and at 8.4% it is big on flavor but easy going down. 4.75

Overall this is another excellent offering from Tree House Brewing Company. Juice Project with Citra + Chinook. 4.25

 

 

 

 

 

From a 16oz can, dated 07/20/21. Served in a spiegelau-style IPA glass.

Pours a turbid, cloudy, dull orange with two fingers of soft, pouffy head. Retention is excellent, leaving a thick foamy cap and a tattered curtain of thick lacing.

Aroma is disappointingly faint but, if I stick my nose right down into the beer, I’d have to say sweet pineapple jam.

Tastes exactly like what I’d have expected from citra and chinook i.e., lots of grapefruit peel and pine needles. There’s a little of that sticky pineapple I was picking up on in the nose and, oddly, a sort of tart berry flavor, but mainly it’s bending resinous, starting and ending with pith and pine while somehow, weirdly, managing to keep the bitterness dial buried at ‘low.’

Feel is clean and juicy, medium bodied and brightly carbonated. It suddenly occurs to me that I never to think to mention with these big Tree House NEDIPA’s that the alcohol is well hidden because it’s just a given. But, hey, for what it’s worth, the alcohol is well hidden.

Overall, interesting beer. The flavors imparted by citra and chinook scream that there had ought to be bitterness and yet there is virtually no bitterness here. So, in that sense, it’s almost a caricature of the archetypical Tree House rendering of New England IPA - for better and worse although, for my tastes, if I’m being honest, mostly for better. But it’s still kind of weird.