Double Dry Hopped All Riwaka Everything
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

 

Pours a medium straw color, perfect head. Aroma is tropical fruit, I get passion fruit and over ripe honeydew Mellon. Flavor is tropical fruits: passionfruit, mango, very faint citrus notes, has a buttery quality that I usually associate with Nelson Sauvin hops, which is interesting and fun. Syrupy with light carbonation. Overall a very tasty DIPA.

2/15/23
16 oz can dated 12/22/22 (bot on 2/10/23 in Brooklyn)
4.25 rating

Pours a pale golden with white head. Tremendous amount of aroma permeating as I pour the can into a glass. Getting mostly grapefruit, tangerine, and clementine. A mix of sweeter and more bitter citrus fruits. Maybe something herbal in there too - like a honeysuckle. It's soft and sweet with hints of lime, ginger, ripe honey dew melon but it has some nice back end eucalyptus, freshly cut grass bite. As an olfactory experience, this is wholly unique. This is pretty good.

 

 

Can poured into a Mountain Rambler Brewery pint glass

A: Pours hazy golden amber with a frothy cream white head that settles to a light layer and laces nicely.

S: Juicy citrus, ripe tropical and stone fruit, a little earthy spice, biscuity malt, and caramel sweetness.

T: Sweet citrus, big lemon lime with hints of tangerine and grapefruit, tropical and stone fruit, mango, guava, peach, apricot, and hints of passion fruit and candied pineapple, slightly floral, subtle earthy notes, biscuity malt, and caramel sweetness.

M: Medium body, moderate carbonation, soft on the palate.

O: Well, this isn't quite what I was expecting. Every other time I've had a Riwaka beer it's been more bright and zesty citrus, but here it brings some tropical fruit along for the ride. Solid, but I think dialing back the sweetness a touch and getting it a bit more bright and crisp would have better fit this hop, but they're probably just following the All _Everything formula. Solid, but nothing overly special by OH standards.

 

 

 

 

16oz can, dated 03.30.2021, poured into a stemless wine glass.

The beer pours a very hazy and turbid orange color, copper hues with a foamy white head, taut bubbles that rise about a finger or so with moderate retention and nice lacing. The aroma is pleasant, lots of nice Riwaka hop, grassy, earthy, lime citrus with nice lemon rind bitterness, lightly floral with a nice pine quality that is balanced with doughy pale grain and sweet yeast. The flavors are very good, lots of earthy hop, raw and green, grassy, dank, weedy, nice pine and resinous qualities with a tangy lime and lemon citrus, mildly floral, a touch of berry fruit with sweet yeast, heavy pale dough and mineral water. The mouthfeel is fine, medium body that is coating and creamy, could perhaps use a bit more oomph as the finish feels a bit weak.

Verdict: A nice IIPA from Other Half. The Riwaka hop is very well expressed and as the description states, it speaks for itself. A nice diverse flavor profile that offers both robust earthiness with a nice tangy and bright citrus quality. I wish the body had a bit more bubble or life but this is a really pleasant beer.