Jenny Said
SingleCut Beersmiths

Hazy, golden color. Medium-sized. White head. Resin, stone fruits, citrus, and malt in the aroma. Hoppy bitterness in taste with a balancing, malty background.

 

Nice looking hazy orange pour likely influenced and hazed up by the addition of the lupulin. I'm hit or miss with SingleCut brews; one of them lives in my all time top ten list and plenty disappoint me. Jenny Said is on the very good side. Dank, juicy fruit nose with hints of that lupulin happiness. Lovely taste profile copying the nose and adding piney, orange & citrusy profile to the mix. Finishes smooth with the alcohol peeking through.

From an undated 16 fl. oz. can sampled Jan 17, 2021.

The appearance is yellow with a slight haze and a white head. Not as hazy as I would think in the style.

The aroma has a full dose of tropical fruit and a lower profile breadiness.

The mouthfeel is medium but there's an astringency.

The tropical fruits taken center stage in the taste and go toward a fruity bitter finale. Got some bite.

I sometime wonder what someone (a sophisticated drinker, though) who has not been exposed to all these newfangled American style brews would think of these off the beaten path and often bizarre experiments. Say someone from Scotland (I just started reading Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish's book - that's what made me wonder). American styles allow tremendous latitude and the results vary widely.

This one is super cloudy and nicely fizzy. It's yellow too. The aroma is funky skunky, and not entirely pleasant. The taste is sweet and bitter and tangy all at the same time. It goes down fairly creamy without too much bite and lots of lingering bitters. It's weird.

Not recommended. A poor value.

 

I got a 16oz can of this beer off the single shelf from my local beer store just around the corner. It poured a hazy orangish with white head that is leaving a nice lace. The scent had dank ripe tropical fruit notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with beautiful slightly bitter fruit presence. The mouthfeel was medium in body and had good carbonation. Overall this beer is outstanding.

Open up a can of this, in this instance a pint can. Pour much of the contents into a clear pint glass. Most of it fits into the glass, as there's little head, which becomes some nice glass lacing. The color is dark amber.The smell is very appealing, with malt and a bunch of dry hops. That's pretty much the taste, malty backing for the stars of the show, the hops. Whatever the blend of hops in Jenny Said is, it is noteworthy. A great run of tastes, from somewhat juicy to somewhat dry. The dry clean finish is especially nice. The mouth feel suffers a bit due to low carbonation. If you like to let your taste buds play with hops, try this one.
Revisit: August 2024. Much more carbonation, slightly darker in color, more head and glass lacing, but the hops are more muted by the starches. Although some categories change for the better, this isn't quite as good as when it was first reviewed. The hopping is less sharp, but it is smoother. That's often the dilemma for this style. This rendition is still pretty good.

 

 

I'm really happy to have found this gem

16oz can purchased from the fridge for $5.99 as a single. Canned on 7/22/2020, so this is 2 months old. The beer name is a reference to the song "Jenny Says" by Cowboy Mouth.

Look: Medium orange color with a slightly hazy appearance. Pretty looking. The one finger head fizzled away to a barely there cling on the rim of the glass.

Smell: Very tropical, citrusy, floral, and resinous. Lots of orange, guava, coconut, pineapple, and honey with a dank, resinous, green, and grassy finish.

Taste: Follows the nose for the most part. Hard to pick up on all of the aromas in the taste though. This is an abundance of citrus - orange, grapefruit, citron rind up front - the carbonation tingles as it travels through the palate with flavors of candied citrus peel and bitter orange marmalade. The finish is intensely bitter yet it doesn't linger for too long. Almost get an orange soda / creamsicle flavor on the finish even though this beer is not sweet and I am not aware of any lactose in the recipe. The beer is not hot per se, but It's no surprise that this beer is up there at 7.7% ABV. There's also a bit of acidity and juiciness that is coming through as I poured off more from the can and this seems to improve the flavor very much. This is a very big beer, and it's growing on me as I get more into it.

Feel: Oily, almost chewy mouthfeel. Nice effervescence from the appropriate level of carbonation.

Overall: SingleCut continues to impress. This isn't my favorite of the SingleCut beers that I have tried, but it's still impressive. For me, it's just not as interesting or drinkable as some of the other Singlecut beers that I have had. For sure, still very well-made and it seems to me that it is a style that is not easy to make well. I wonder if this would taste juicier if I drank it fresher, or would it just taste more aggressively hoppy? Actually, while this is not advertised as such I would actually say that this is the best orange creamsicle type beer that I have had. It still tastes like beer and it gives that flavor naturally without the addition of adjuncts like orange, vanilla, or lactose.

From the can it pours a mostly clear amber orange color with visible carbonation. A large frothy white head displays good retention.

Fruity and citrusy aromas of grapefruit, orange, tangerine and peach. Also, one can perceive the herbal bitterness in the nose.

The taste feels like a classic IPA with a full and mouth coating malt backbone of cracker and sweet biscuit. It is balanced by an assertive earthy bitterness, spicy herbal flavors and fruity hops resins. Flavors of grapefruit, orange, tangerine, lime, peach and apricot interact with herbal notes of grass and pine. Juicy and sweet at first, the palate dries as the hops spices develop. Medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation. The finish is dry, resiny and bitter.

Tasty brew all around that reminds me more of classic DIPA because of its bittersweet balance. I would have again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 oz pour on tap. Look is unimpressive - nearly but not quite clear yellow/orange with very little head. Nice lacing though. Aroma and flavor feature a smorgasbord of tropical and citrus fruit, along with orange zest and a hint of pine. The 7.7% abv is totally hidden. Extremely drinkable.