Techno Viking
Sloop Brewing

 

 

 

 

 

Look: Pours a hazy yellow, lots of foam but it settles quickly.
Smell: Lemon and honeydew.
Taste: Mild bitterness gives way to peaches and cream, orange and some melon.
Feel: Creamy and effervescent, medium bodied.
Overall: A good quality IPA.

 

 

 

 

 

16 ouncer, with 10/9/20 stamped on the bottom of the can.

Fully hazed up and nice looking NEIPA....frothy and loose off white cp, leaves all sorts of lacing. Nice looking brew.

Bright and fruity sniff.

Tasty and fresh, with ripe pineapple, kiwi, bananas, strawberries, vanilla....yum

Well crafted and well worth a try...more quality brew from Sloop.



FYI...this beer is not "retired"

 

Poured into a 13 oz tulip glass canned on 10/09/2020. Pours a hazy yellow with a 2 finger sticky white head that leaves sporadic streaks of lace, solid retention. 4.25

Smell pineapple, garlic, mandarin, and apricot. 4

Taste follows garlic, pineapple, mandarin, and apricot I am not afraid of that combination, but not for all. 4

Mouthfeel is medium, a tad sticky, gentle carbonation, and at 6% ABV it drinks bigger but goes down easy. 4

Overall a really nice and slightly unusual NEIPA. Worth a shot for sure. 4

 

 

 

 

A- Tallboy pour into a can shaped glass with a very hazy, murky pale yellow body and a one finger head. The crown on the beer is a thick and frothy layer of foam that ascends to about a finger high and has good head retention. Eventually just a small ring remains at the edges of the beer and it leaves small webs of lacing at the top of the glass and spots below that.

S- This aroma has some serious strength. After pouring you can pick up on the hops from several feet away as the smell pours out of the glass. Massive notes of dank weed with that spicy skunky oniony character lead things off opening for juicy stone fruit nectar, tropical fruits, some citrus and floral hops. All about the hops with just light hints of oats and pale grains. Just unbelievably dank here. Notes of passionfruit, papaya, mango, nectarine, melon, pineapple and a hint of bubblegum. Could sniff on this for hours.

T- Takes a bit of time to open up on the taste buds but even then it doesn't reach the great heights of the aroma as the overall flavor just loses some potency on the taste buds. The same basic balance as the aroma with dank herbal hops leading things off alongside stone fruit nectar hops. These lead into citrus, tropical and floral hop notes. Dank skunk weed, pineapple, melon and mango notes with hints of grapefruit, tangerine, orange peel, onion and bubble gum. Moderately sweet throughout with a touch of oats and bread.

MF- Soft and creamy mouthfeel. Carbonation is at a moderately high level but the thick creamy consistency really makes this one like a pillow on the taste buds. Ends with a light herbal bitterness.

Aroma on this beer is wonderful and just massive hitting the nail on the dank/stone fruit hop head. The flavor gets stronger as it warms up but it never quite reaches the strength and intensity of the aroma but overall it is a rather tasty IPA.