It Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Proclamation Ale Company

 

 

 

 

Canned on 1/31/22 opened and reviewed on 2/16/22

Thick, golden hazy AF liquid. Creamy body, sift white, layed-out foam covering. Lacy chunky.

Sweet and tropical hop aroma: Creamy strawberry, Lavender and Mango chunks, Vanilla and whipped cream golden grainy malt. This is an exceptional NE style nose. Best part...the hops smell freshly picked. If you've ever picked fresh hop cones and crushed one up in your hands and gave it a big 'ol whiff. .you know what I mean!

Crisp bite, cleeeeean and mean with a heavy dose of smooth and silky! Mouthfeel is just awesome. Creamy golden body is hot stuff. Oooh lala.

Crispy, earthy, dry hop flavors hit first, then chunky sweet and tangy fruits: melon rind, tangy and spicy mango puree, rustic golden earth grains with subtle vanilla creaminess. Think: Creamy NE Hazy.

Favorite Proclamation to date! Wow this is a top-nothch, high grade NE Hazy beast.

 

From a 16 oz. can dated 02/26/2021. Sampled March 20, 2021.

The milky, hazy yellow appearance of a NEIPA is noted. Under a modest, long lasting off-shite head.

I get some juicy fruits but I also get something on the dank side in the aroma. Some buried cereal grain.

Medium, smooth mouthfeel.

The taste is more toward the fruitiness rather than the dank character and it is mildly sweet. Mild bitter end.

 

Maybe they changed the name of this or something, but my can says It Feels Like We Only Go Backwards and was canned on 2/26/21. IFLWOGB is an 8% DIPA brewed with Mosaic, Centennial, and Denali hops, which seems like a pretty good combination. Not really sure what to expect from it, but Proclamation's IPAs are usually at least solid, so I'm gonna just go in blind with no expectations and see what it's like.

Pour here is an extremely-hazy light-medium orange color with slight saturation and some yeastiness in the appearance. Good head that forms at about two fingers and leaves behind some light, splotchy lacing as it sinks to a single finger. Very nice legs on this one, though, and decent surface coverage to boot. I think it's good enough looking, for sure.

The nose here is very intense, hitting immediately with a virtual brick-wall of dankness and intense citrus notes surrounded by odd spice and grassiness. Hints of green onion and even some mushroom-y savoriness kicking around. Freakin' weird but not bad, I guess. Just didn't expect it at all. Denali is known to be extremely oily, and I get that here. Mosaic is throwing out a lot of earthiness too, and I have a feeling the dank qualities are mostly from it as well.

Flavor profile has some subtle pomelo and other citrus notes underlying, but the main thrust of the palate seems to rely on a combination of dankness, grassiness, odd spice, nutty maltiness (spelt?), and unusual esters that feel pretty satisfying despite my inability to pin their exact flavors down. I will say this is less fruity than many hazy IPAs I've had, and the vegetal character is somewhat close to being overdone, but it still remains drinkable and enjoyable thanks to a rather deft malt bill and good development on the tongue. Some notes of dark fruit and mango develop as it warms a little bit, and I'm starting to pick apart the dank/complex flavors into more specific aspects that remind me of rindlike grapefruit, lemon, and nectarine. I'd say this is definitely worth a shot. Proclamation makes a lot of stuff that feels a little tough to delineate, but this one is unique enough to recommend.

A little fruity/floral, but not much flavor overall, either from those undertones or from the hop mix. Not balanced, smooth or particularly hazy, either - just a lot of alcohol taste.

16oz can dated 3/18/20.

Pours cloudy gold with a two inch head of dense white. Spongy lacework with exceptional retention. Peach, pineapple, and tangerine in the nose. Medium bodied with a creamy, soft mouthfeel. Grapefruit, peach, pineapple, and pear on the palate. Finishes with zero malt, plenty of juicy citrus, and minimal bitterness.

 

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass canned on 3/18/2020. Pours a hazy orange with a finger plus sticky white head that leaves loads of thin webby lace as it slowly settles. 4.5

Smell is peach, ripe melon, mango, mandarin, and apricot. 4.25

Taste follows peach, honey dew, mandarin orange, mango, and apricot. 4.25

Mouthfeel is bigger than average, a tad sticky but not dry, soft gentle carbonation, and at 8% it goes down rather easy. 4.25

Overall this is rock solid, low on bitterness and very tropical and a very nice all around NEDIPA. No wow factor that would make it really stand out, but nothing to complain about. 4.25

 

 

Pours orange gold color with a 2 finger off white head that settles with a solid ring. Very pungent, alcohol-y citrus on the nose. very boozy. Taste is also boozy, a little too much for my liking. It's tough to get the flavor behind it, but generally lightly sweet citrus. Feel is soft and lightly carbonated... and of course the burn.

This is not much to my liking only because of the alcohol burn. I can't appreciate the flavor too much but there are no off flavors, so you may like it fine.