Powerbatch 5000
Altamont Beer Works

Here's another beer from the 24th annual dipa festival. I'll be the first to write a review of this beer for this Next Glass owned database and subsidiary. Sub often means lower than. You dig it the most.

Pours that golden color you've often seen beer look like. Yes, its here. 2/3" white head, good retention for a festival pour. The aroma has that Nelson drip, garlic, diesel, whatever they say gooseberry is, white grape. This Taiheke hop, never heard of it. Wow, its pretty old. Not even sure if its proprietary still. Not sure what it brings to the table here, commercial tug job says resinous. Yeah I can feel that. Sticky grapefruit pine resin rind. Mouthfeel pushes that Nectaron with that fuzzy bitterness. Riwaka and Nelson keep this one feeling down under dank the entire time.

On the upside, the alcohol is easy to put down. Amazing how far that has come over the years. I'd like to revisit this one when there aren't 70 other dipas pouring. But like just about everything from Altamont, its very solid.