Smooth Beats Miami
Finback Brewery - Glendale

 

 

This one pours a moderately hazy golden orange color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like creamy toasted coconut, orange peel, grapefruit, mango, and marijuana.

This is one of the best adjuncted IPAs that I’ve ever had – it’s just about spot on. It’s not completely an unapologetic juice bomb, which works for me – it’s got some clean piney and dank bitterness, lots of orange, grapefruit, and mango, and a really well integrated coconut character. It adds a wonderful tropical and luau-like feel without completely overwhelming everything.

This is medium bodied, crisp, clean and super drinkable.

I really, really enjoyed this one – adjuncted IPAs can be kind of dumb, but this was done very well.

If you scored this below a 4 I have a question; Did you rate this as an IPA? Rate this against its style.

THIS ONE ONE OF THE BEST IPA's brewed with coconut ever.

I feel lucky to have enjoyed this. Thank you Finback and JWB for collaborating this beer again.

This is why I love beer. Thank you.

 

Pale gold pour; HazyLite body; very good cap retention; spotty plus lace. Strong coconut nose. Mostly coconut with a little coconut grapefruit and pineapple hidden. Medium light body; moderate minus carbonation; no astringency. Overall, the sweet coconut is cloying/verging on a drain pour.

Green-hued light gold color. Hazy. Moderate head which settles to film. Multiple spots and shorter streaks on the glass.

The smell is a bit earthy with floral hop spiciness that remind me of oregano and white pepper.

Higher level of carbonation with a neutral to thinner body. The taste leans bitter. The beer starts with an unusual whiskey like flavor, although I do not pick up on any alcohol warmth. The bitterness is the strongest flavor but doesn't overwhelm.

 

16 oz can acclimated to 51°F and poured into a tulip glass.

Pours a very hazy, very very light orange, nearly yellow, also pale in saturation. Produces a 1.5 finger white head, leaving a clear ring of lacing.

Initial aroma is very heavy fresh grapefruit flesh, with some fuzzy/scorchy hops peaking around it, maybe grassy? After agitating, the coconut remains, but the hop smell grows stronger, being joined by a mild scent of alcohol. I feel like I might be smelling a hint of coconut but I can't be sure. Not bad by any means but a little flat.

Initial taste before swallowing is a little flat as well, bitter, grapefruit, and sweet, just not much of them. After swallowing I get a very pleasing amount and type of sweetness in the middle of the mouth and tongue, it's between mild and moderate and tastes sort of malty but also natural and not like sugar, maybe slightly dairy like. After this, I get hops, moderately bitter, and very piney. Finally, a richness sets in which is clearly the coconut, it's mild after the first sip, but it's pleasant, adding body, and being almost cooling. I suspect the sweetness is in part due to the coconut. The aftertaste is wet, and dominated by a healthy amount of pine. I start to notice a good sized dose of maltiness as I work my into the second half of it, being a little sawdust like? Maybe? I hate to say it but despite the good things, which are very much true, it's a tiny bit flat. I get those tastes and really nothing else, most notable, I can't taste coconut.

Mouthfeel is very nice, being juicy and pulpy like a New England IPA, and having a creamy essence. It is a little choppy if I'm honest, and I know this is contradictory, but it manages to feel incredibly smooth at the same time. Idk how, but that's what it feels like to me.

I'm quite surprised this is classified as an American IPA, and not a New England IPA, the grapefruit quality, haziness, and juiciness are like a dead giveaway. Overall it's quite a good beer, but I'm having a lot of trouble tasting the coconut. I don't know if it's my tastebuds at fault but it just wasn't there for me in taste, only feel. For what is there, it's very very good, very clear grapefruit and pine are certainly great, and an excellent mouthfeel. I just find myself wishing for more coconut. Great can art too.

I won't be buying it again, unfortunately, unless I decide to try to see if I can taste coconut a second time.

[IMG] Poured into a 20 tulip canned on 3/23/23. Pours a very attractive hazy yellow orange with a finger sticky white head that leaves thin lines of lace with nice retention. 4.25

Aroma is coconut, pineapple, passionfruit, peach, and apricot. 4.25

Taste follows coconut is the clear lead, but passionfruit, peach, pineapple, and apricot all lend a hand and make very pleasant. 4.25

Mouthfeel is medium, gentle carbonation, not sticky or dry, and at 6.2% massive flavor but real easy going down. 4.5

Overall I am really enjoying, if you don’t like coconut stay away. 4.25

Can from Canton St, Sept 2022

Too much coconut, like drinking suntan lotion

 

 

 

 

A: The beer is very hazy pale yellow in color. It poured with a short white head that quickly settled down, leaving only a narrow collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of coconut are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and has hints of lime and pear. Little to no bitterness is perceptible.
M: It feels nearly medium-bodied and somewhat smooth and crisp on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: The aromas and flavors of coconut really stand out in this beer. While the hops aren't that prevalent, it still tastes like an IPA.

Serving type: can

 

Pours a cloudy light straw color, ample foamy head. Nice citrusy hop aroma with a hint of coconut cream. Has a wonderful tropical fruit flavor mixed with light coconut and a semi sharp citrus bite on the finish. Fairly sweet but not overly sweet. Carbonation is on point. Overall a delicious beer, would like to drink again.

6/7/21
16 oz can dated 5/13/21
4.5 rating