Tubular Bomb
Sloop Brewing

 

 

-Cloudy orange can pour hosts a thin, white foam cap and an aroma of tangerine and orange blossoms.
The flavor is of orange, grapefruit zest and some pine resin. The hop bitterness is moderate. This has a little nuance and is light-bodied, pretty good.

 

 

 

Muddy pale orange brown color with not much head to it but whats there leaves lacy white rings. The aroma is a bit weak with dank grassy notes. I like it! Taste obscures those notes with an up front bitterness - not terrible but not helping the subtleties of the white nectarine, grapes, and white grapefruit notes. The darkness is not very present. Feel is soft and bitter, almost medium bodied. All in all a fairly good NEIPA but lacking the typical sweeter notes. Doing their own thing and that's good.

 

 

 

 

As the person who entered the beer, I'm going to add the information on the can:

Collaboration with Orono Brewing, but brewed and canned by Sloop. "Teamwork is Dream Work." Brewed with Galaxy & Motueka Hops.

A: Poured into a Tree House tulip. Body is hazy yellow with khaki undertones. Small off-white head on top.

S: Raw, green hops are the first impression. Piney, leafy green hops that jump out of the glass. I'm guessing this beer is very fresh (the info on the bottom of the can is illegible).

T: Thankfully, the taste is a little more restrained. Yes, there's plenty of fresh, piney hops, and an almost grassy bitterness. But there's also some tropical fruit - think pineapple, some underripe melon, and limes. Underripe peaches too. Maybe some stone fruit skins (thinking plum, but maybe apricot) and white grape skins as well.

M: It's a little flat in feel, which I think takes away from the overall impression a bit. Call it medium in heft.

O: Good offering from Sloop, as per usual, but it doesn't blow me out of the water. Might improve a bit with a couple weeks of age to soften out those raw hops.