Troll House Brewing Company
Tree House Brewing Company

 

Excellent head production, retention, and lacing. Body is a dark yellowish orange, turbid and opaque.

Nose is a wonderful mix of hops, yeast, malt, and added fruit: bright green herbs, lush sweet tropical fruit, and pungent earthiness. Pineapple, peach, guava, mango, vanilla, melon. It smells like a fruit cocktail - either the side of mixed fruit, or an alcohol mixer, you take your pick.

Taste is similar. The fruit definitely takes lead over the hops, but not to the extent you often see with fruited sours, which are barely, if at all, identifiable as beer. This is still definitely beer, but the moderate to high fruity sweetness makes it less like an IPA, and more a tropical fruit beer ... thing. Tasting notes match the nose pretty spot on.

I'd like a bit more citrus-like expression, and some more bitterness from the hops - there's very little of either. It is rather unique, however, and very damn tasty. Impressively dangerous at 8.2% ABV.

Poured into a 16 Nordic pint glass canned 3/31/23. Pours cloudy orange yellow with a solid finger sticky white head that leaves thick streaks with excellent retention. 4.25

Aroma coconut, mango, vanilla, peach, and guava. Unusual but pleasant. 4.5

Taste follows coconut, mango, peach, guava, and vanilla finishes and not over the top. 4.5

Mouthfeel is pretty big, soft carbonation, not dry or sticky, and at 8.2% it goes down very easy once you get used to it. 4.5

Overall this a really interesting beer and for me it worked very well. I would give it a shot. 4.5

 

 

 

 

16 oz can poured into a tulip pint glass. Typical gorgeous TH pour - hazy yellow/orange with a fluffy off-white head. Good retention, nice lacing. Huge aromas of peach, mango, and guava with a smooth wheaty backbone. Flavor is similar with an emphasis on the stone fruit. Hoppy grassy/bitter complimentary notes. Creamy, moderately carbonated mouthfeel with no booziness. I'm not usually a big fan of milkshake IPAs (or adding fruit to IPAs at all) but this is a stellar beer. Really tasty stuff.

L-Murky golden color..... minimal head..... moderate lacing

S-Orange marmalade...,.over ripe tropical fruits.....papaya.....cotton candy......honey....over ripe cantaloupe.......over ripe peach......some creamsicle from the lactose

T-over ripe fruits.....oranges, papaya, guava,......some citrus rind bitterness in the finish.....

F-less than medium....somewhat sparkling and prickly

O- Good not worth another purchase

 

Canned on 4/1/22; consumed on 5/5/22

Pours an opaque dark orange body capped with multiple fingers of fluffy, white foam; good head retention leaves wavy mounds of soapy cap settling to a rich collar and generous array of webby/spotty lacing spattered across the walls of the glass.

Aromas of key lime peel waft over tangerine and dank pineapple, while mild pine meets wet moss for an earthier back end and clementine juice invigorates the closing impressions.

Taste opens with dank key lime and a flaky malt backing before orange zest, mango, and tangerine take hold over the mid-palate, followed by slick pineapple resins into the back end as airy notes of overripe papaya mark a more tropically-minded finish.

Mouthfeel offers a medium-light body with moderate carbonation; flaky textures breed a pillowy crispness as a resinous glide over the mid-palate peaks to a subtle, juicy quality on the back end, where a soft twang then fades to a semi-dry finish.

Plush, bright, and delicate, this NEIPA weaves a limey dankness alongside a flaky malt backing as subdued waves of tropical resin quietly wash over an unabashedly approachable profile.

From a 16oz can dated - of course - April Fool’s Day. The varied labels on each can are pretty funny - mine was labeled Beery McBeerface. Inside, a very nice milkshake DIPA brew. Smooth mouthfeel from the lactose and lots of flavor. Good fun and a good beer.

 

Had on tap at Charlton. Pours hazy, pale gold in color with one third inch head. Taste is white wine, mango and fruit smoothie. Medium body, bitter, moderate carbonation. Very similar to their Mega (Treat) (Radiant) ipas that are so smoothed out that they really lack major defining flavors other than slightly bitter juice. Tree House makes way better ipas than this. A very m'eh type of beer. A big miss.