Project Find The Limit #9
Tree House Brewing Company

L - heavy-looking ball of orange sunset glow. It just looks like there be hops in here.

S - lemon lime cream and satisfying smoothie aromatics of banana and strawberry.

T - overripe kiwi sweetness and mango lassi. Rich hop essence that just bleeds lupulin. Grape jam slathered on white bread. Numbing bitterness that sneaks up on you.

F - full-bodied and creamy as can be. That's the best part about these find-the-limit beers. Such heft.

O - features a good balance between ripe juiciness and balanced hop bitterness. Neither overpowers and neither overstays their welcome.

 

3 months old. Can to wine glass.

L: Pours a totally opaque brownish yellow with a pillowy white head that leaves plenty of lacing. Some floaters visible in the bottom of the glass.

S: Ripe orange, tangerine and mango. Hoppy, sweet and fruity.

T: Orange, tangerine and mango are complemented by peach as well as hints of white grapes and strawberries. Quite sweet, more and more zesty as it warms and a slightly bitter finish.

F: Very soft and smooth when cold before a medium sharpness develops after a while. Full and creamy all the way.

O: I had only one can of it so I can‘t really tell how it tasted fresh, but what I definitely can tell is that it aged beautifully. Firstly, I thought that it had clearly softened (in a good way) before it developed a great complexity after a while, that could clearly be smelled tasted and felt. This is a fantastic beer which can easily hold its ground against TH‘s big boys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a completely opaque dirty straw color with a finger of head. I'm mostly getting earthy and dank notes in the nose. The flavor profile has a pretty decent malt bill - this is more bready than most of the TH offerings. There is also a modest melon-like sweet taste that works well with the hoppiness that follows in the finish.

I was surprised that the finish was not more bitter but the hop character (like the force) is strong in this one.

I hope that TH keeps pushing the limit forward as they always do.

Update: I had my second can two days apart from my first. This time, I employed the Heady Topper challenge of drinking it from the can. I really enjoyed the can consumption.

 

Tree House Brewing Co. "Project Find The Limit #9"
16 fl. oz. can coded "PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT 04/22/22 06:36:06" and sampled on 05/21/22
$24.20/4-pk at the brewery on 05/12/22

Notes via stream of consciousness: Wow, this is brewed with 18# of hops per bbl. For homebrewers out there that's 9.29 oz. per gallon. It's poured a murky yellow-brass colored body beneath an inch of just slightly yellowed off-white foam. The aroma is citrusy/tropical with orange, mango, passionfruit, and papaya. The flavor follows. The malt is sweetish, bready, and oat-like. There's a little bit of acidic hop burn to it, and a moderate to median bitterness. In addition to the fruity notes found in the aroma I'm getting a little bit of pine, more of a tangerine than navel orange, and some pineapple. There's a little bit of alcohol presence, and although it's sweet that works with the bitterness and "hop bite" to balance it. It finishes mainly dry with some grassiness, earthiness, and bitterness & "hop bite" lingering. It's pretty intensely hoppy but it's also kind of smooth. This of course is exactly what Tree House does best. The mouthfeel helps to deliver that smoothness in the flavor via the smoothness on your palate due to all of the extra proteins it's got. It's medium bodied but it feels fuller, and it really is creamy-smooth with a fine-bubbled, moderate carbonation. As usual for Treehouse the head retention is excellent and it's left some really nice lacing about the glass. I'm really liking this one. It's different, and yet it's also kind of the same as some of what I've already tasted from them. I don't remember which ones, of course. It costs a little bit more but it's worth it.
Review #7,997

Picked-up a four-pack of cans at Tree House in Sandwich for about twenty three dollars. My 252nd brew from these guys. Very good, very $.

Pours a super cloudy OJ-colored orange with a half finger of yellowed head that quickly settles into a soupy crown and leaves messy lacing.

Big creamy orange in the nose with some mango and underripe pineapple behind.

The huge creamed orange and tropical fruit flavors carry to the taste as well with strong hop burn in the finish for balance. Maybe a hint of grass, too.

Full bodied with a soft zippiness to the carbonation.

Packed to the gills with hops. If you don’t mind hop burn, excellent beverage.

 

Canned on 4/22/22; consumed on 5/7/22

Pours a turbid, honey-gold body capped with multiple fingers of dense, soapy, white foam; excellent head retention leaves a finger of creamy cap, moderate, frothy collar, and a comprehensive spatter of chunky, webby/spotty lacing caked across the walls of the glass.

Aromas of soft onion peel earthiness find fresh grass accents prior to a tropical peak; mango peel, overripe papaya, and a sweet citrus zest course through the bouquet, while subtle grapefruit peel and waxy honeysuckle offer waves of twangy and floral, dank contrasts over time.

Taste opens to hints of red grapefruit trending toward an earthy, subtle Fruit Punch note as mossy resins find light onion contrasts to mango peel, papaya, and a predominant sweet pineapple jam into the back end as distant, flaky malts become more apparent into the finish.

Mouthfeel features a body on the fuller end of medium, with moderate carbonation dispersing to a semi-bitterness and soft grit smoothing over the mid-palate while somewhat creamy textures cut through on the back end; a low-lying hop twang invigorates a late, juicy peak to the finish.

Dynamic, intense, and plush, the aggressive dry-hopping regimen works to present myriad flavor waves across a rangy and engaging hop profile; even for Tree House, there is an impressive level of depth wrung from this approach.