Bored In The House
Tall Tales Brewing Company

 

Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass.

Simple orange and somewhat light brown body color, with a hint of middling muddiness and opaque quality but not terribly. Classic bleach white head, kind of fine bath-foamy actually and reaching just under three fingers. Good island puck retention, and more big bubbly lacing to go with it. Not hazy, not turbid. Simple solid looking IPA.

Aroma is really nice. Rich sensing tropical hop notes hit in a big whiff when first exploring. This is a spritzy juiced up almost Orangina soda citrus note, more so than tropical, but also with not as much artificial sensing or big sweetness in fruit either. It's quite impressive, but does hint towards a little candy smelling, but surprisingly not overly sweet which I like.

The palate is just a real hop pleasure. Simple malt backbone, but surprisingly unexpected for an 8 percent abv, and almost light in texture However the palate is just a fruit bursting gem. Hitting more so in the mid palate with a pithy mix of citrus and real bitter tolerable bursting mango like tropical notes on first sip and light sugar. Real sense of juiced up sweet tropical fruit, pineapple, guava, more mango, but then a real controlled bitter melon almost herbal spicy hits on the aftertaste to make some excellent fluid contrast to the sweet tones. The fruit quality on this has me shocked because it tastes like added fruit but no such disclaimer in the beer whatsoever. And true to an IPA the bitterness lingers like a finely toasty cigar.

Tropical spicy rush of an IPA. Very impressed with this one and drinks stupid easy at this high abv which is shocking. A beer like this could easily slip into a sugary boozy mess but it is not even close. Well done take a bow.