The Greenest Green
Tree House Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you Dave!! Poured into cup at tailgate. Opaque, pineapple, full flavored pineapple hop juice. Great if you’re ready for it.

Growing greener and greener than ever, Tree House brewers take the decade of hop learning and applies it to an imperial New England-styled IPA that takes Green where Green has never gone before.

Not quite "compost-green" in color, The Greenest Green's viscous haze ebbs and flows into the glass taking the appearance of tarnish yellow grapefruit and orange juices- perhaps with extra pulp. As its seductively creamy head builds, its juicy, tantalizing and irresistible fruit aromas spring forth with the vibrancy of exotic citrus and tropical fruit punch- but however with its own curious herbaceous bouquet. Creamy, poundcake-like and full with cereal, its seemingly fructose taste offers a fruity tanginess that evokes teeth-churning behavior in the very first sip.

And as the taste blossoms across the middle palate, its secrets reveal, layer by layer. Fruity sweetness begins to drift while the tropical fruits rise to the forefront- first the pineapple, mango, apricot and passionfruit. With full hoppy saturation mounting on the tastebuds, the acidity of ripe tangerine, lemon, lime and gooseberry turn to a dry sherbet flavor for complexity and charm. Not to be outdone, its smooth bitterness is balanced and sharply acidic with an undertow of chive, fresh grass clippings, shallot and cannabis.

Working both the creamy and dry segments in mouthfeel, the beer is juicier than ever while trending flavorful, fruity and piquantly resinous. Finishing with a sappy pine flavor, the beer's overwhelming hop complexity completely seduces the palate and easily makes the palate forget about the bitter and caramelized taste of imperial American IPA gone by.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a milky yellow orange with a fluffy off-white head. Taste is sweeter than some of the other members of the Green family, but that's countered by a pithy bitterness. That bitterness is less immediate than other Greens, but seems more long-lasting, maybe due to the creamy mouth-coating body.

Overall a beautifully done Treehouse DIPA

 

 

 

#175, yummy!

This one pours a very hazy glowing orange color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

There’s a ton of funky and sweet pineapple on the nose here, some tropical fruit, orange tangerine, and just the lightest floral aroma.

Green is a perennial favorite from Tree House, and this is the stickiest and most greentastic version of that I’ve had yet. It’s just super saturated and thick with hop character, without tasting syrupy. There’s loads of the expected pineapple and mango here, with tons of orange and tangerine citrus, and very little bitterness. It’s just got that extra little push beyond Green or Very Green – it’s not a full on uppercut, but it’s definitely a hard shove.

This is thick and creamy, with a wonderful drinkability, and no hint at all of the 8.8% ABV.

It’s honestly old hat at this point, this is wonderful, of course it is. Tree House has come out of the other side of their expansion extremely successfully.