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Powdered Cheese
Other Half Brewing Company
- From:
- Other Half Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- New England IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 94
- Avg:
- 4.29 | pDev: 4.43%
- Reviews:
- 5
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 24, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 20, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 6
Imperial IPA brewed with our friend Drew from @18thstreetbrewery is our first 100% lupulin powder beer. Brewed with Citra, Simcoe and Tomahawk lupulin powder.
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Ratings by agreenman19:
Reviewed by agreenman19 from Connecticut
4.66/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.66/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
L - label reminds me of a cross between dippin' dots and cheese balls. Mmm. Pours a solid brick of orange yellow haze. No translucence here.
S - bright orange, bordering on coriander. Hint of melon and pineapple. Smells really yeasty and wheaty. Earthy hops. Lots of brightness. Peach. Maybe some Sunny D.
T - orange and all its derivatives explosion! Soft pineapple underlying flavor bolstered by boatloads of tangerine, nectarine, Mandarin orange, and satsuma. Cantaloupe and mango. Overpoweringly juicy, but in a bright, peachy way. None of this sugary dank shit. Just an absolute bouquet of fresh fruit. Finishes easy with a sharp lingering bitterness. I can feel it all over my mouth. I'm reminded of the time I told the ladyfriend that I sometimes get bumps on the inside of my mouth that are particularly sensitive to bitter tastes. She told me it was an allergic reaction. Well, I'm getting that hard right now. Is this it? Am I allergic to lupulin powder? I guess there are worse things to be allergic to!
F - soft and very fitting for the flavors here. When drinking something that tastes like fresh, fluffy fruit, I like it to feel the same.
O - allergies aside, this is a real treat of a beer. Not overly sweet, but rather full of refreshing summertime orange crush. Fukkin tasty I tell you hwhat.
EDIT: The more I drink this, the more my "reaction" subsides. Must've been my body punishing me for going so long without a beer. Minimal bitterness. Closer to fruit juice.
Jun 29, 2017S - bright orange, bordering on coriander. Hint of melon and pineapple. Smells really yeasty and wheaty. Earthy hops. Lots of brightness. Peach. Maybe some Sunny D.
T - orange and all its derivatives explosion! Soft pineapple underlying flavor bolstered by boatloads of tangerine, nectarine, Mandarin orange, and satsuma. Cantaloupe and mango. Overpoweringly juicy, but in a bright, peachy way. None of this sugary dank shit. Just an absolute bouquet of fresh fruit. Finishes easy with a sharp lingering bitterness. I can feel it all over my mouth. I'm reminded of the time I told the ladyfriend that I sometimes get bumps on the inside of my mouth that are particularly sensitive to bitter tastes. She told me it was an allergic reaction. Well, I'm getting that hard right now. Is this it? Am I allergic to lupulin powder? I guess there are worse things to be allergic to!
F - soft and very fitting for the flavors here. When drinking something that tastes like fresh, fluffy fruit, I like it to feel the same.
O - allergies aside, this is a real treat of a beer. Not overly sweet, but rather full of refreshing summertime orange crush. Fukkin tasty I tell you hwhat.
EDIT: The more I drink this, the more my "reaction" subsides. Must've been my body punishing me for going so long without a beer. Minimal bitterness. Closer to fruit juice.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by JerzDevl2000 from New Jersey
4.25/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Picked this up at Other Half a while ago and finally got around to it this week. Yes, I love the label but didn't really think that this would taste like a snack that I'd get from a convenience store! Instead, this was a powdery, cloudy beer with tons of citrus and cream that was sure to please any of Other Half's devoted following, (such as myself)!
Nice pour to this as the beer poured a dark and dank orange with a massive, foamy white head on top that lasted for quite a while. Lots of orange, tangerine, cream, and peach in the nose with even more in the taste, though the mouthfeel was a bit heavier than the aroma would have indicated. Soft fruit, a body with hints of wheat, and sweet juice combined with a bit of pine to keep this from feeling too light. The powder ensured that this beer would be intense and clean-finishing as there was little hints of hop bitterness to be found here.
There was enough alcohol here too but it complemented everything else nicely as it was hard to detect until I had finished this off. The hint of lactose was enough to make this feel like cheese, along with the power, but in the end, this was a unique brew that wasn't quite anything like anything else that Other Half or 18th Street had ever released before. I accidentally drank the Double Dry Hopped version of this but hopefully, there will be a chance to amend for that in the future as this clearly deserves another release!
Sep 17, 2017Nice pour to this as the beer poured a dark and dank orange with a massive, foamy white head on top that lasted for quite a while. Lots of orange, tangerine, cream, and peach in the nose with even more in the taste, though the mouthfeel was a bit heavier than the aroma would have indicated. Soft fruit, a body with hints of wheat, and sweet juice combined with a bit of pine to keep this from feeling too light. The powder ensured that this beer would be intense and clean-finishing as there was little hints of hop bitterness to be found here.
There was enough alcohol here too but it complemented everything else nicely as it was hard to detect until I had finished this off. The hint of lactose was enough to make this feel like cheese, along with the power, but in the end, this was a unique brew that wasn't quite anything like anything else that Other Half or 18th Street had ever released before. I accidentally drank the Double Dry Hopped version of this but hopefully, there will be a chance to amend for that in the future as this clearly deserves another release!
Powdered Cheese from Other Half Brewing Company
Beer rating:
94 out of
100 with
37 ratings
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