Roo Lab
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

 

 

 

 

Appearance: Pours a cloudy honey color with a one finger head; excellent retention and streaky lacing

Smell: Pineapple and melon with some cakey sweetness

Taste: Vanilla cake flavors build a base for the pineapple and melon flavors to tap dance upon; a medicinal bitterness emerges, in the middle and dominates the finish

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied and creamy, with moderate carbonation

Overall: I know you are supposed to rate OH hazies highly and I usually do, but this one just doesn't cut it for me; for an NE IPA to be dominated by the malt just doesn't seem right and the medicinal tone is rather unpleasant

L - pours a thick, floury orange with flirtations of pink throughout. Dense, foamy head that slowly and mesmerizingly sinks lower and lower, leaving splashes of lacing behind.

S - peach and apricot candy juiciness. A hint of onion bagels and lemon sourdough. Pineapple seltzer sweetness.

T - jumpy and scattered. Let's see what we got. Creamy kiwi fluff at the very beginning, then jumps into a jarring acetone flavor before mellowing out a bit with some marshmallowy gooeyness and ultimately finishing with some lightly dry, lightly herbal, lightly bitter, lightly watery onioniness. Interesting. Hot like chili powder, but entirely in flavor. No spiciness. Honey tops it all off.

F - great feel, not too thick, but velvety soft like peach fuzz.

O - definitely a disjointed beer, but a lot of the flavors are unique and a bit zany. I can appreciate weird.

Canned 11/24/2020, it pours cloudy orange color, looking like pineapple juice with a 2+ finger thick white foamy head that faded slowly and left really nice foamy lacing. Smells like orange juice, pineapple, red grapefruit, wet cardboard, toasted grains, caramel, piney notes, floral hops and melon. Nice mix of the malt and hoppy aspects.

Tastes very bitter with grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, orange juice, lime, honeydew melon, tropical fruit, biscuit, caramel, buttery bread, candy like Starbursts, yeast and star fruit. It’s very juicy and bordering on dank, but it maintains its drinkability while hiding the ABV very well.

Eq and OH is always

 

 

 

 

Grapefruit colored haze. Nose is canteloupe, candied citrus, royal icing, and eq bubblegum. Taste is canteloupe, watermelon cbd gummies, citrus pith, and whipped cream. Mouthfeel starts creamy, finishes crisp. Very little lingering bitterness.