Stackin’ Paper
Hoof Hearted Brewing

 

 

 

Color or orange juice with a very thick, foamy white head. LOTS of lacing. Some particulate floating. Nose is dank!. Taste is also dank with pineapple and stone fruit coming through. Nice bitterness on palate.

 

The tried and true recipe for hazy IPA is well documented. But when devising a “triple” hazy IPA, the recipe gets much longer. Papers, papers and papers longer.

And as Hoof Hearted’s Stackin’ Paper settles in the glass, a heavy taupe appearance reveals a richly silted, turbid and foggy appearance. As a patient head pulls from the beer, the rich scent of tropical fruit, citrus, herb and cream swoon the nose. But as the malty ale glosses the tongue, a richer notion of poundcake, heavy cream, vanilla wafer and fructose create a sweet upstart.

As the palate acclimates to the beer’s richness, the hops deliver a wallop of fruitiness starting with tropical pineapple, passionfruit and banana followed by more citrusy tangerine, pink grapefruit and lime. Other fruits of apricot, pawpaw and honeydew continue to wrap around the tongue before developing a smooth and tepid bitterness to balance the linger of fruit and sugar.

Full bodied, creamy and rich, the ale settles with an alcohol bite that elevates hop bitterness for a spicy sensation of botanical gin accompanied with green tea, verbena and hemp in a long and bittersweet aftertaste.

Poured from 16oz can into my Belvárosi sörfesztivál tulip. Can is stamped U 4 P 11:23:27 — I have no idea what this means, since 11/23/27 is exactly 3 years from today. So make of that what you will!

Appearance: murky rich-golden hue with a finger of frothy ivory foam leaving a nice lace on the glass as it dissipates.

Smell: sweet malt aroma with tropical notes of passionfruit, guava, and tangerine. A bit heavy-duty, but I like it.

Taste: like the aroma, rather sweet, with a kind of musty, grassy hop flavor. There’s some earthy tropicality to this hop character, but the mustiness of it just … doesn’t quite work.

Mouthfeel: medium-rich body with a nice carbonation and a good creaminess.

Overall: the musty, kind of overly-earthy element to the hops in this beer just doesn’t work for me. It’s not terrible or anything; just not my jam.

Pretty flavor packed but I don't think it stands out as much amongst other high level Galaxy based IPA's it's all become so saturated even really good clean ones like this don't stand out as much. Still would get again

 

 

 

I got a can of this beer off the single shelf from my local beer store located just around the corner. It poured a hazy orangish with very thin white head that is not leaving any lace. The scent had dank tropical fruit peel spice. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with bright tropical fruit start which turns fruit peel spice and bitter at the finish. The mouthfeel was medium in body and had good carbonation. Overall it is a solid beer.

 

 

poured into a can glass, thin semi fluffy head, soapy lacing. Looks like a glass of grapefruit juice.

aroma is notes of peach, cantaloupe, citrus and some pine

taste is peach and melon and some damp piney resin.

mouthfeel is sticky slightly sweet with a resinous finish, Medium carbonation and a slightly bitter dry finish

overall it's a very good triple IPA, very smooth drinking and the high alcohol is well hidden.

 

 

A - Pours a golden orange with a one finger creamy whtie head. Tons of soapy lacing.

S - Aroma is cantaloupe, peach and pineapple.

T - The taste is pineapple, peach, grapefruit rind and big punch of piney hops in the finish.

M - Medium body with medium carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a soft crisp finish.

O - Pretty solid TRIPA. Nice tropical frutis with a big bitter finish. Alcohol barely noticeable at 10.5%.