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Tree House Brewing Company

 

16oz can poured into a snifter.

A: Deep golden-orange color with an opaque, dulling swamp water haze. Two and a half fingers of large-bubbled white head. Retention is awesome, lacing is spotty and pencil-thin broken rings.

S: Comes in softly with some floral notes of orange blossom, pithy white grapefruit, and a slight earthiness. Repeated whiffs bring candied ruby red grapefruit to the forefront, which eventually morphs into just plain ruby red grapefruit juice. Very slight earthy and piney dimension underneath it all, and some sticky bud, too. Malt base is the expected mild toasty grain flavor along with a bit of a sweet and doughy impression.

T: In taste it is a bit more bold up front, but not much. Leads with that candied grapefruit and ruby red grapefruit juice as the dominant top note. It is rather easygoing with only a moderate bitterness. Flashes of white grapefruit, lemon rind and pith, perhaps tangerine and some other non-descript tropical fruit notes. A touch spicy and peppery. Earthiness rides up with some dank bud and pine sap. Toasted hemp seed. Bitterness peaks late middle as the piney notes fully open. Light brush of alcohol. Malt base is lightly toasty and somewhat doughy and sweet, providing a foundation but not really in anything more than a supporting role. Finishes a bit more oily/spicy and drying, but with some trailing grapefruit for good measure.

M: Medium-full mouthfeel. Fluffy and lightly chewy. Ample carbonation is very gentle with a bit of a lift and scrub that accentuates a sense of dryness on what is not really a dry beer. Plenty of raspy hop tannin, and to be real, a bit of hop burn. Mild alcohol warmth.

O: Ooooh, I really like this one. It's like a New England-style love letter to the Cascade hop. The concept fully piques my beer geek interests, and the execution is just superb. The differences in terroir between the three Cascade strains create an experience that is simultaneously familiar and exotic. It's the cascade grapefruit-and-pine profile you know and love, but presented in such a way that it feels wholly new. It's a simple flavor palate, but with a ton of incremental nuance and complexity within its confines. If I'd tried it blindfolded without knowing what I was drinking, there's no way I would've pinpointed it as 100% Cascade. There's so much more of a mild floral, playful, and juicy dimension and the typical West Coast brawn is toned way back, but still there. It's like when a Michelin Star chef plays with a very token and basic dish, but prepares it in such a way that it makes for a completely different and mind-blowing experience. The one slight knock I'd mention is that there is a bit of hop burn that builds slowly throughout the session. It's not a deal-breaker, though. I think this is one the "old money" hardcore beer geeks and brewers especially will treasure, but it is still delicious and approachable for anyone to enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

This is different for Tree House. Not a juice bomb but a well put together beer nonetheless. Feel is juicy, sticky, a little lighter than medium bodied with bright, zesty carbonation. I know I already said sticky but it really is notably sticky. And a little boozier feeling maybe than I’d have expected even at 8.6%.

Supercharging their hop flavor with the help of New Zealand varieties, Tree House takes their unique taste to the land down under.

The session revs up with a turbidly opaque pour of burnish gold and tarnish orange with an eggshell white foam. As a radiant scent of green fruit, citrus and tropical fruit roll off of the rim, so do peppery, herbal and floral aromas. Its taste is rich with poundcake, honey and cereal with a doughy texture ahead of the developing hop flavors. White grapefruit, lime, apple and grape bring a juicy hop flavor with passionfruit, pineapple, lemon and gooseberry carry into a bitter leaning finish of pine, pepper, hemp, verbena, sassafras and cedar to close.

Full bodied, full flavored and lumbering on the palate to close, its attempt to dry and to increase bitterness leads to a bitter sweetness of aspartame and chewable vitamins for a forced balance to finish.

 

From a 16oz can dated 5/14/25 into a pint tumbler. Can message: "Who told you you could eat my cookies?"

Pours a translucent brownish orange with about three fingers of white head. Great retention and lacing.

Surprisingly, I didn't get a ton on the nose on the crack of the can. A sniff during the pour showed some grass, citrus and apricot.

Tastes of citrus, peach and wet wood. Balanced by some piney bitterness.

Sticky, medium to full-bodied mouthfeel. Bitter aftertaste.

This is different for Tree House. Not a juice bomb but a well put together beer nonetheless.

 

 

Pours a nice hazy orange two finger off white head that laces pretty well.

Aroma is grapefruit but subdued not in your face, pine, dank hiding underneath. Softer and not as bright as most Tree House Brews.

Taste is good more kick the the nose, sweet citrus and malt for a second then bam grapefruit rind and pine resin attack your tounge until and linger thru the finish. Like the flavors on this one almost makes you feel like you drinking a West Coast style though it's definitely a hazy.

Mouthfeel is medium along with smooth carbonation.

Overall mild nose, banging flavor glad I have a few more.

Darker shade of orange with a thick white head. Nice lacing left over as well. Fruity and citrusy on the nose as well as the taste. somewhat of a berry flavor on the backend with a bitterness as well.

 

Drinking in a large snifter.
Pours a somewhat hazy medium orange with a full frothy head.
Smells very fruity and dank.
Nice full mouth feel.
Very sweet, fruity taste. Overtones of grapefruit.

 

From a 16oz can, dated 08/17/23. ‘You lika da juice?’ My guinea sensibilities are offended. Served in a spiegelau IPA glass.

Pours a hazy-cloudy orange juice-color with two-plus fingers of super-soft, fluffy head. Retention is excellent, leaving a puffball cap of shaving cream-like lather and a tattered curtain of sticky lacing.

Nose is sharp and citrusy. Aroma of oily orange peel.

Taste is both juicy and resinous with above average citric bitterness. Like the nose, predominant flavour note is bitter, oily orange peel with lesser notes of grapefruit juice and resinous pine, then a lot of that signature TH peachy yeast thing going into the finish, airier and more floral than usual and as much in the sinuses as on the palate.

Feel is juicy, sticky, a little lighter than medium bodied with bright, zesty carbonation. I know I already said sticky but it really is notably sticky. And a little boozier feeling maybe than I’d have expected even at 8.6%.

Overall, tasty and something different from the usual Tree House DIPA. It was obviously well executed and there’s no question I enjoyed it - as a novelty - but I doubt I’d add it to my regular rotation. For whatever that’s worth.