Trials And Tribulations
Bellwoods Brewery

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hazed golden orange colour, 1.5 fingers of white head, some lace. Smell is heavy on the dank hops pine with an understated tropical fruit in the periphery, there is just a hint of malt at times but this is mostly a dank weedy-hoppy affair. Taste is quite bitter and hoppy out front, earthy and piney and again like the nose quite dank, a very lean malt profile with a touch of mid palate sweetness, before finishing dry and dank with an almost chalky/raw hop pellet/dank weed flavour. Light-dry carbonation, medium full body and quite resinous, initially I found the mouthfeel to be quite nice but after a while the heavy resin made it a bit off putting. Overall for a beer that Bellwoods had no real intention to make its decent, but a far cry from some of their better hoppy offerings, while not a disaster it is a rare miss from these guys.

 

For me, the strongest hop in this DIPA is Simcoe. It is very present in the nose, resulting in a very herbal, weedy scent. The taste is similar, although there is a good dose of citrus fruit in there as well. The fruit has a relatively bright flavour, but overall it is a fairly dank tasting beer. I am typically a fan of SImcoe-heavy beers, but this one is a tad messy. Not bad, unfortunately not up to the level of Witchshark or Boogie Monster.