Cool De La
Finback Brewery - Glendale

 

 

 

 

A- Pours with a murky and floury pale yellow body from the tallboy into a becher. The head rises up to about two fingers high with great retention and a thick creamy texture. Wide ring around the sides and plentiful spotty lace.

S- Bright and fruity hops. The focus of the hops is around the tropical, stone fruit and soft citrus spectrum. A bit estery and has that homebrew feel like it is slightly oxidized sort of. With warming it becomes a bit powdery and extract like many modern IPAs.

T- Much like the aroma the hops drive everything and they revolve around the juicy and fruity spectrum. Here they lean towards citrus like tangerine, grapefruit and orange alongside mango, apricot, melon, mint, creamsicle and papaya. Zesty and bitter but never acrid or sharp. Again there is something estery about the brew not sure where its from.

MF- Silky and velvety smooth medium bodied brew. Very fluffy on the palate and just like a cream at times. Ends with a soft citrus bitterness.

A good fruity IPA that has some overly citrus flavors and a bit of a homebrew estery yeast feel at times. Soft and juicy but a bit marred by the aforementioned.

 

Can. For some reason I thought this was a coconut beer. Turns out it is actually a sort of session IPA. Pours a nice, bright, yet hazy fluid. Aroma is nice. Very tropical and New Englandy. Plenty of pop for a relatively low ABV IPA. Flavor is also pretty yummy. It has this specific Session IPA flavor that I don't always love. Sweet, candied, pale malt that doesn't really hold up compared to the hops. Overall, I don't have many lower ABV IPAs anymore and this one was pretty good.