Cobra Clutch
Parallel 49 Brewing Company

Poured from a 473ml can.
Not good at all, this is like drinking a perfume laced beer, and strong after taste of chemicals.
This could be a old stale can, not a dated can. Anyhow i dumped this one.

It's a little *unclear* what this stuff is, but it's really not bad. I wouldn't really call it a NEIPA but an American Strong Ale. However, it does have big hop flavors and a juicy character. Also not very bitter and then it's not acidic. So it's just a powerful mouthful of fruit and more fruit. The aroma is actually quite lovely, with ripe honeydew melon and something flowery. The stuff is pretty sweet but so smooth and tangy. This would be the bomb in a 19.2 oz tall can on a sunny day. From the slightly smaller can purchased at the BC Liquors. Undecipherable stamp on the bottom.

Pours hazy golden orange-yellow with white fading foamy cap and white floating debris from tall pint can to glass. Boozy on the nose and tongue at 8% ABV. Bitter and perfume-like with mango-aluminum laced can notes and a cobra snake venom vibe makes this a hard to drink DIPA. Maybe it was a skunked can (bought single pre cooled at Vancouver liquor store) but this may be the FIRST micro DIPA that I could not finish and had to dump!

 

I found the smell to be off-putting in an acerbic way. The alcohol was also very forward and gave each of the fruity flavor notes a sting to them. These two criticisms might not always apply to every beer, but they did here for this one. I can sense a delicious beer underneath, but it's like a mango sundae covered in glass shards.

 

473ml can - no info on the label beyond the perfunctory name, ABV, etc. Marketing too expensive these days? Ah, I see now - the COBRA, is sporting a CLUTCH purse/handbag/whatever. If there's not pot in this brew, there certainly was in the room when they came up with this concept.

This beer pours a murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some awkward low cloud cover pattern lace around the glass as it lazily bleeds away.

It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, some mixed melon fruitiness (cantaloupe and kiwi), with a further generic citrus character, a hint of benign yeastiness, and some plain piney, weedy, and dead leafy hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, more muddled foreign climes frooty notes, overripe domestic citrus flesh, a damp minerality, and more floral, musky, and verdant piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame in is palate-tingling frothiness, the body a solid-ass middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee airy creaminess struggling to make it in a hop's world. It finishes off-dry, the multi-faceted fruity nature of this beast ceding no lingering ground.

Overall - well, this is an agreeable enough version of the style, the 16-proof booze sort of hanging around the perimeter, looking in, but never making ingress. I'm starting to get that Yuk-a-Flux sensation I got when I was 18 and some yahoos thought that it would be a good activity for a Wednesday night in the common area of our dorm. And yeah, I had to at least be open to trying new things, and now, years later, I have a beer that encapsulates all that. Worth a go, IMHO.

Cobra Clutch is a hazy, medium amber colored ale. It's almost an orange marmalade colored beer. Head is dense, off white, and lasting.
At first blush, Cobra Clutch's aroma is bready, yeasty, and boasts a slight juiciness. Juiciness is a combination of mango and ripe oranges. The center is rounded and offers a pleasant balance between neutral malt aromas and the more vibrant, juicy hop aromas. The hops dominate the nose without necessarily overpowering.
On the tongue, Cobra Clutch is medium full in body, almost to the point of being chewy. Gentle, neutral bready malt flavors lead the charge before moving into an almost chewy center. The hops are ripe and juicy, tasting more tropical than citrusy. The finish is short and clipped, leaving you ready for the next mouthful.
It's tasty and full bodied. The flavors are balanced, which is always a plus. The only real drawback as far as I can see is that the hop profile isn't more pronounced than it is. However, that could be because maybe this was on the shelf for a while. Otherwise, very respectable example of the style.

Purchased tall can at Vancouver BC Liquor Store
B.B. Mar 2022. Seriously?! They're giving this IPA a FULL YEAR shelf life !?! Boolshite .....Strike One.

Poured cold into a tulip glass.
Flat as a pancake...ZERO head..... What. So. Ever.......Strike Two.
And oh, it's a Hazy!? Looks like like baby vomit, or adult flu diarrhea.
Hazy / New England was NOT mentioned anywhere on the label. Just "double IPA".
Tastes like juice.....something for underage girls who hate beer.


So thanks a lot for the sample from a college homebrew bucket....utterly gawdawful swill.
What did cobras ever do to deserve such disrespect?
Strike Three.
You...Are....Out!

Parallel 49 Brewing 'Cobra Clutch DIPA' @ 8.0% , served from a 473 ml can
A-pour is a light gold from the can to a hazy gold in the glass with a small white head leaving a spotty lace along the tulip
S-smelly when I opened the can , ... and gone
T-NE DIPA , big swallow
MF-decent carbonation , full bodied
Ov-not a great beer , enough with the DIPA's when there clearly NE DIPA's
prost LampertLand

If a pineapple had sex with a supermodel and fell into a vat of cobras this is what it'd taste like.

Single pint can from the brewery.
Uniform hazy orange juice/dirty golden pour with 1/2 finger off white head.
Aroma is fruity - tropical - pineapple, mango, notes of pine on caramel malt base.
Tastes juicy - mango, pineapple, sweet caramel malt balanced by hoppy/piney bitterness.
Medium full mouthfeel - sweetness dominates - a hoppy bittersweetness lingers nicely and 8% ABV hidden - dangerously drinkable.
Really good offering from Canada's left coast.

 

16 oz can in Port Renfrew B C.
Cloudy pale golden body with a decent white head.
This is a dank and fruity NE style IPA from the Pacific NW. Moderate strength flavor and bitterness for style, with more fruity than dank or grassy notes.

Hazy.