Cost + 10^2
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

 

Picked this up at Other Half recently, as well as a bunch of other brews including the 7th Anniversary. Loved the original Cost + 10 as the name and story behind it were something unique to the line share there. Sure enough, this was also a juice bomb that went down easily and was on par with what I've come to love from these guys over the years!

Looked like orange juice, poured like orange juice, and felt like orange juice on the palate, to a large extent. A nice head and tons of lacing were left behind with a deep ring near the top of my pint glass and well-defined rings the rest of the way down, as the suds easily covered a majority of my pint glass. Lots of white grape, fruit cocktail, juicy citrus fruits, and melon in the subdued nose as the taste was so soft and plush from the first sip to the last. Some kiwi and white wine emerged as this fully warmed up with some sticky stone fruit on the back end, as all of the hops melded together nicely here without any one in particular overpowering the others.

Good carbonation here too as the alcohol was almost impossible to detect and the dankness from the hops was on par with the basic malt that gave this beer all the weight and balance that it needed. Canned on 1/26 with "PERCENT OF A MULE" written underneath it, this was probably the same recipe as the original from last year but regardless, this was easily worth another go. Glad I was able to give this another go!

Poured from a can (26Jan2021) into a Teku

L: pours a darker orange brown, completely opaque but not creamy, with a nice and thick white head that slowly fades over a few minutes. Mild lacing left with each sip

S: a very creamy and rich overripe tropical fruit nose. Get a good amount of overripe/sweet melon and mango upfront, with some citrusy bitterness behind it (orange/tangerine/clementine). Becomes more gummy candy sweet as it warms a bit, some bready malt character coming through as well

T: bit perplexed by the flavor here. Get some of that overripe melon from the nose, and would say that gummy candy character is more present on the swallow. Citrus comes through here as well, but overall it's somewhat muddled? I found the nose suggested a bit more than what I'm getting here - it's definitely tasty, but muddled and more tropical fruit cup in syrup than I was expecting/hoping for. Moderate finish, there's a hit of a vegetal note lurking throughout but don't find it super present/aggressive. Bitterness growing as it warms

F: medium- body, medium carbonation, easy to drink but feels somewhat thin vs. usual OH/expectations

O: a delicious IPA that leaves me a confused. Nothing bad (3.75 is "Very Good" after all!) but there's some disconnect nose to swallow - don't mind sipping on this half can, moving to something else for my next brew

Pours cloudy orange color with a 2 finger thick foamy eggshell colored head that faded slowly and left good foamy lacing rings. Smells of tangerine, lemongrass, hay, fresh cut grass, orange peel, skunk weed, toasted grains, sour grapefruit juice, caramel and wet bready malts. A lot of citrus fruit, some of it odd smelling like it was fruit starting to rot.

Tastes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, light caramel, orange peel, wet cardboard, toasted grains, gummy bears, Razzles candy, tea leaf, peppery spices, fresh cut grass and earthy notes like herbs with pieces of crayons. The hops in this mix seem a bit odd, but this hides the ABV well. A solid IPA with a decent bitterness level.