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Tree House Brewing Company

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From:
Tree House Brewing Company
 
Massachusetts, United States
Style:
New England IPA
Ranked #293
ABV:
7%
Score:
96
Ranked #956
Avg:
4.33 | pDev: 6.93%
Reviews:
260
Ratings:
1,570
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 05, 2024
Added:
Dec 24, 2012
Wants:
  200
Gots:
  470
Our IPA brewed with Northwest American hops prominently featuring Chinook! A pungent aroma gives way to a delicate beer loaded with hop flavor. Soft notes of grapefruit, pine, pineapple, and young mango give way to a dry finish making this one hard to put down. We find Sap to be one of our most complex and intricate IPAs - We love it dearly!
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Reviewed by Smakawhat from Maryland

4.47/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass.

Palest orange body, with hinting lemon yellow and brown hues. Classic off white frothing and creamy formed head, stretching easily four fingers in height. Pill and sheet lacing with lots of retention and staying power.

Real interesting aroma. Earthy sweetness, a mix of pine, grapefruit and hinting tropical exotic quality. Sweet taffy candy like sensation mixes in as well for some real unique flavors. Excellent nose.

Palate is real impressive. Sweet touches of light faint caramel, and a giant hop mix of sweet, bitter, and candy light flavors. Fruit hits of citrus and cantalopue mixing with pine herbality with excellent sweet tones. Candy melted like soft sugars, not horribly sweet either which makes it even more impressive, and a sense of honey while drinking. Finishes with oily bitterness in green hop and citrus zest to cap off a great flavor performance.

Very well done put together brew here.
Jan 05, 2024
 
Rated: 4.27 by TheManiacalOne from Rhode Island

Dec 15, 2023
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Reviewed by Ocalafox from Florida

4.82/5  rDev +11.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Very well made. I wasn't sure what to expect from a NEIPA that features Chinook and Simcoe hops, but this offering is quite good. My prior experience with Chinook has been primarily as a bittering hop. I am impressed and surprised. I still like the fruity juice bomb type IPAs and pale ales out there, and there is definitely a place for this type of beer too when you have time to savor the nuances and depth of flavors and aromas.
Jul 30, 2023
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Reviewed by tekstr1der from New Hampshire

4.36/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Wasn't sure this one would be something I'd love. Turns out it's fantastic. Typical TH fruity smoothness up front, but an assertive and well-rounded bitterness (relative to the style) comes through and gives a little throat punch that's welcome.
Jul 29, 2023
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Reviewed by Beers-es from Virginia

4.52/5  rDev +4.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
From a three-week-old can stamped SAP IS BACK, beer pours a beautiful hazy glowing orange. One inch of dense white foam leaves lots of lacing. Smell is initially a massive hit of grapefruit, which transitions to more subtle tropical fruits and earthy herbs. Killer beer.
Jul 23, 2023
 
Rated: 5 by Dalkri from Massachusetts

Jul 21, 2023
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Reviewed by 57md from Pennsylvania

4.31/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours an opaque straw color with almost a finger of head. The nose has both citrus and dank notes. The citrus is also prominent in the flavor profile and it is accompanied by piney notes. This offering is nicely resiny with an above average bitterness.
Jul 20, 2023
 
Rated: 4.28 by McSeal from Connecticut

Jul 02, 2023
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Reviewed by Seamus42

4.83/5  rDev +11.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
Tree House certainly does world-class New England IPAs, but Sap strikes an unusually beautiful balance that isn't quite so down the center line of the style. Its key note isn't fruit so much as it is a really savory kind of bitter. There's the expected pine, but it's complex, in a way that makes you want to roll it around a while to see what else will emerge. Hint of cannabis here. Pair that with the soft creaminess of TH IPAs and that inevitable somewhat citrus-y base, and this one is really something special. I find myself ordering this one every time it shows up, because it's more than a variation on a theme. A rewarding voyage.
Jun 05, 2023
 
Rated: 4.06 by MaximumYuks from Oregon

Jan 16, 2023
 
Rated: 4.25 by Patches826 from Massachusetts

Jan 08, 2023
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Reviewed by DavetotheB from Pennsylvania

4.34/5  rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
From a 16oz can dated 11/14/22 into a tulip. Can message: "Sap is back"

Pours an essentially opaque brownish orange with about one finger of white head. Pretty good retention. Great lacing.

Very earthy smell. Pine, dirt, resin, light citrus, hint of marijuana.

Taste...is this a Tree House IPA? Haha. Piney bitterness, earth and light citrus juice. Essentially like the nose.

Here's a catch. Smell and taste would have me thinking sticky mouthfeel. This is soft. Medium-bodied. Bitter, citrus rind aftertaste. Low carbonation.

West coast meets New England. Very nice beer.
Dec 09, 2022
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Reviewed by SSS from Canada (QC)

5/5  rDev +15.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
A-Thick white fluffy head atop a hazy yellow brew
S-Layered aromas of tropical fruit with a hint of cream. Pine forward with a good dose of honey and light caramel
M-Juicy mouthfeel with a full body and low end carbonation
T-Sweel fruit upfront with a level of candied fruit and a contrast of resinous pine.
O-outstanding beer!
Nov 26, 2022
 
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Reviewed by Lucular from Maryland

3.41/5  rDev -21.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
I waited until having my third can before rating this. Because...I really don't get it. This is by FAR my least favorite TH IPA ever, not even close. It must be a bad batch or something. There is a weird stale cardboard taste that completely ruins the rest of the flavor profile (pine? citrus?). I'll try to remember to update this if I ever have another chance to try this.
Aug 06, 2022
 
Rated: 4.34 by hoponit from New York

Jul 28, 2022
 
Rated: 4.25 by MDDMD from Pennsylvania

Jun 30, 2022
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Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania

4.19/5  rDev -3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Tree House Brewing Co. "Sap"
16 fl. oz. can coded "SAP IN APRIL WHAT?? 04/26/22 05:22:00" and sampled on 05/18/22
$15.20/4-pk at the brewery on 05/12/22

Notes via stream of consciousness: Sap? Yep, it's Chinook and Simcoe! You can't go with just Chinook, it'd be too piney. It's poured a very hazy golden orange body benath an inch or so of off-white foam. The aroma is not as pronounced as I thought it would be but it still contains the pine and citrus that I thought it would. The taste is similar, which is a good thing as too much pine can be very drying and sometimes cuts back pretty harshly on the drinkability. This is pleasantly balanced between pine and citrus over a lightly sweetish and bready malt base. I'm finding orange, grapefruit, passionfruit, and some berry as well as soft pine and earth. It's moderately bitter, which really helps with piney beers, and yet it's also dry in the finish with delicate pine and light earth lingering. in the mouth it's medium in body and gently crisp. Unlike a lot of other Treehouse beers this has only a limited amount of acidic "hop bite" and I assume that it's either not dry-hopped or only lightly dry-hopped. The head has held up well, as is usual for Treehouse beers, and the lacing is great. I was expecting more from this, but at the same time I was also expecting it to be a bit too much and that's not the case at all. This is very well balanced and rounded, and highly drinkable.
Review #7,991
May 18, 2022
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Reviewed by ovaltine from Indiana

4.25/5  rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a beautiful golden color with significant haze and a beautiful fluffy white head that laces the glass beautifully. The nose has grapefruit, mango, and a significant resiny pine note.

The citrus is forward on the taste, but that resiny pine is a SLEEPY mid palate through to a slightly creamy finish. Exceptionally well executed from a world class brewery.
Jan 29, 2022
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Reviewed by farrago from New Jersey

4.15/5  rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Off-white head of good density, close to two fingers, surface pocked by bubble crevices, thin and wispy lacing. The liquid just light enough to count as translucent, still it's got that general apricot puree look. Sufficient piney, peppery notes to stiffen the nose, fresh herbaceousness, biscuit and cracker, cocoa, moderate white grapefruit, the fruit scents unadorned peach, apricot, pineapple, steady dissolve. Light-bodied, the carbonation swishes it around without getting too creamy. Medium grade dryness, here too has good posture and while centered around an herbaceous, piney core doesn't take that too far. About as much cracker, bread crust as I can recall having in a Tree House beer. The white grapefruit citrus takes a huge leap forward and past the mid-palate becomes fairly dominant. Maybe it's this which also brings out more pineapple fruit. I do get the hint of bubblegum others mention. Good drinkability, particularly if you favor a drier profile. Probably best on a hot July day not a freezing January one. (Canned 12/22/21)
Jan 11, 2022
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