Liquid King
Tree House Brewing Company

 

From a month-old can, pours the requisite super hazy dark orange. Big dense off-white head of foam retains its shape for a long time. Smell is a burst of fresh cut oranges, along with mango and papaya. Taste follows. As it warms, there's an undercurrent of musky, woody herbs. Very low bitterness. Hard to imagine this being any better.

 

 

 

Pours a very hazy, nearly turbid mango color with an off white creamy head that provides ropes of lacing down the glass. Beautiful hazy.

The nose is packed with mango, orange creamsicle, peach, and melon aromas, and they’re more pronounced on the taste (if that’s possible), with the melon a surprisingly welcome addition to the tropical fruit and stone fruit flavors. Delicious stuff.

The mouthfeel is full and chewy, on point for this beer, which is a welcome addition to the Tree House portfolio.

 

 

L - pour a turbid orange haze with a heaping helping of murk. Fuzzy cantaloupe-hued head with a deep, resonating darkness at its core.

S - mango and orange soda. Honeydew and ice water. Smells simultaneously refreshing and body-hurting.

T - bright and tropical. Mango lassi, bitey orange cream citrus, and a tart twang. Resiny hop oils contrast with soft, billowing melon-flavored bubblegum. Jam-packed with fruit but balanced by pungent hoppy bitterness, although it's more of a lingering electricity.

F - silky, creamy, and dense. Like the carbonation is actively fighting the heft within.

O - perhaps a bit oily and bitter for Julius, but I will never tire of these variants. Long live Tree House.

 

 

 

16oz can with illegible date code.

Pours cloudy gold with an inch of white head. Moderate retention and lacing. Pungent aromatics with orange zest, peach candies, dried mango. Medium bodied with a soft mouthfeel. Unripe peach, orange and mango on the palate. Finishes with minimal malt and a fairly assertive bitterness.

 

 

 

 

Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass.

Creamed off white vanilla colored head, easily reaching three to four fingers with fine bubbles and a soft top. Pale orange and opaque to hints of dull brown and yellow along the edges with a simple but pleasant body enough to the eyes. Sheets of nice little ring lacing while drinking like coated tiger stripes.

Rich beaming aroma. Creamsicle orange with thick rich vanilla and even a big aroma of white chocolate that is oh so to die for. Tangerine and citrus juice hinting on the edges making for an absolute knockout combination. Fruit angle is surprisingly something you have to dig around which makes it even more of a pleasure amongst this cake and chocolate like cream decadence.

And as if that wasn’t enough the beer delivers more. Rich creamed orange followed by hop notes of mint and sage. Creamed vanilla and ice milk, with spicy orange and oils that hits like sweet perfume. Light bodied even almost truly liquid but has so much texture somehow. Literaly rolls off the tongue like silk, with hints of some faint mango and tropical sweetness.

Real dang impressive stuff. Even the lighter body, makes for easier drinking even if it somehow manages to still feel and taste creamy and rich.