Sticky
Great Rhythm Brewing Company

16oz can dated 2/18/20.

Pours clear yellow with an inch of white fluff. Average retention and lacing. Mildly piney and dank in the nose. Medium bodied with a thinnish mouthfeel. Earthy, piney, and pithy on the palate. Zero malt with plenty of drying bitterness. Finishes pithy and chaulky.

Poured into a 16 oz not sure when it was canned. Pours a slightly hazy dark yellow with a finger sticky white head that leaves a bunch of sticky lines of lace as it slowly settles. 4

Smell is herbal, grass, pine, mango, apricot, and white grapefruit rind. 4

Taste follow lots of earthy herbal flavors grass, pine, mango, apricot, and a healthy dose of grapefruit in the bold finish. 4

Mouthfeel is about medium, a tad sticky and slightly dry, plenty of life but still rather gentle on the palate, and at 7% ABV pretty easy sipping. 4

Overall this is a nice and unique NEIPA, not loaded with juice, but still really tasty. Nice IPA 4

 

 

16oz can: This one pours a cloudy golden color. There was a small white head that didn't linger long. Nice but slightly lighter aroma. Pine, tropical and citrus hop notes. The taste is good. A bit of resinous pine hop flavor, with some tropical and citrus hops in for balance. Nice!

Fresh can poured into a fluted snifter.

Brew pours a hazy straw color with a thick and foamy white head. The head takes a while to recede into an ample collar with some floating islands of foam. Hazy but not creamy looking.

Aroma is clean but muted. Tropical fresh fruits including melon and mango with a bit of resinous earthy hops in the background. Has a hint of sweet malt in the aroma too.

Flavor was a bit more muted than I expected. Fruity hops was at the forefront. Tropical mango and a hint of some pineapple. A bit of grain and earth in there too. Nothing overpowers the other flavors. Balanced but not a stand out flavor wise.

Moderate carbonation and medium body, a bit syrupy and coats the tongue a bit.

A decent brew but not a big stand out for me. I have enjoyed many of Great Rythms hoppy offerings, this one is good but not their best. I would drink again but not search for.

From a 16oz can, undated but purchased at the brewery this week. Served in a spiegelau-style IPA glass.

Pours a moderately hazy honey-gold with a finger and a half of soft, white fluff. Retention is very good, leaving a fat collar and scattered gobs of lacing.

Not much intensity on the nose, some resiny sap verging on turpentine with sweet undifferentiated tropical fruit behind that.

Taste manages to simultaneously red-line both the sticky-sweet and turpy-bitter dials. Sweet, sticky, tacky pineapple juice, tangerine, white grapefruit and sticky, resinous pine sap. I'm enjoying the strong bitterness but it's sort of clashing with the tacky, composty pineapple thing and lingering too long on the roof of my mouth.

Feel is, as advertised, sticky. Medium bodied with a tacky, puckery mouthfeel but bright, vigorous carbonation goes a long way toward making this drinkable.

A serviceable enough beverage but, overall, a bit of a letdown. I remember having had this on draught at the taproom a couple of different times, maybe last year and the year before, and thinking it was quite good but this can is definitely disappointing me. Orange-scented lacquer thinner comes to mind. I wouldn't pour it out by any means but I don't know that I'd go out of my way to buy it again.

Pint can

This pours out with a rather vibrant look, a dark golden color with amber highlights. Only slightly hazy. A very healthy white foam gives excellent coverage. Remains a full foam cover at all times.

A very sweet & fruit juicy hop aroma...very dense! The sweetest of the fruits are in this, honeydew mellon, pineapple, strawberry, cantalope, blackberry jam, ripe red apples.....perhaps a bit of honey sweet amber style malt too. This nose is super fruity! Sticky-sweet fruits sums up the overall aroma.

The first sip has a seriously heady, fresh and sharp feel to it. Earthy, dry hop puckering happens fast with a nice flow of peppery tropical juices.

The flavor has an attack of earthy, grainy, semi-bitter, dry hoppy effects, piney and sour, tangy fruits roll in, dried wheat, summer leaves, more earthy, grainy stylings from the heady malt presence. The bitterness is rather big for an IPA these days, as well as the alcohol heat effect....especiallly in New England. Sour and wild tropical fruits, peppery citrus and grapefruit (no sugar) round out the subtleties of the flavor spectrum. The fruity toned hop flavors are various; papaya, strawberry jam, pineapple and sour grapes all pop out at some point in the session.

Side note: my lips are actually sticky. Hence, the name (?) hop residue and or, malty leftvovers? A bit of a west coast style ipa comeback ....but also very NE style.

 

Poured from 16 oz can into tulip glass. Pours a very dark orange/amber, and with a minimal head that leaves a thin lacing on the glass. This beer smells of sticky, piney hops, with some floral notes hidden in the background. Definite malt presence in the nose as well. The taste follows suit...sticky piney hops, floral notes, then a smooth, slightly warming malt backbone. This is a very well balanced beer. I was worried it would be a cloyingly sticky beer with a dry mouthfeel, but the malt sweetness evens this out. Well done. I'd get it again.

 

Bought this at the brewery location. Dark gold appearance with a slightly tan, large head that dissipated quickly. Rich and piney aromas mixed with some malts. Taste follows the nose with some bready and yeasty flavors mixed with a earthy, citrus punch. Medium body with crisp carbonation. Overall, excellent aromas.

 

 

Pours a slightly hazy coppery orange with a rich two finger head that slowly drops to a halo and a film of bubbles, great lacing.

Aromas of orange marmalade, rose, grass, light caramel malt, a little bit Piney and dank. Overall the smell is sweet and floral.

Taste mostly follows the nose, orange and flower with undertones of pine and herbs, a little green. Sweet biscuit and caramel malt backbone. Nice bitterness on the finish.

Medium bodied, sticky (imagine that), sharp carbonation, drying.

Overall this is a a tasty west coast influenced IPA, it's got that bitterness and malt backbone, but that big East coast dry hop punch.

 

16 oz can was poured into a pint glass.

Appearance: A one finger head was poured that reduced to a thin layer. It is a slightly hazy orange yellow color with good clarity and vision of bubbles coming up through the glass. Frothy lacing down the glass as the beer was drank.

Smell: Piney, spruce, some citrus, caramel, and toasted malts.

Taste: That nice sticky resiny pine smd spruce notes we look for, some grapefruit, caramel, bitterness, and chewy notes too.

Mouthfeel: Light bodied, medium carbonation, light tingly bitterness and a little chewy.

Overall: Nice and sticky resiny pine and spruce. Look forward to more of this in the future.