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Transient Artisan Ales

16 ounce can into tulip glass; no can dating, but is a fairly recent release. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy deep golden amber color with a 1 finger dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Dense foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, melon, red apple, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, light pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/fairly earthy hops, fruity/spicy yeast, and pale/wheat malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, melon, red apple, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, light pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate peppery yeast spiciness; and light pine, citrus peel/zest, herbal, floral, woody, grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, melon, red apple, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/fairly earthy hops, fruity/spicy yeast, and pale/wheat malt flavors; with a nice malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitter/spiciness. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready/grainy, and fairly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 8%; with mild increasing hop burn after the finish. Overall this is an excellent East coast styled Belgian IPA. All around great citrus/fruity hops, fruity/spicy yeast, and pale/wheat malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/spicy/drying finish; great soft feel. Feels like mostly El Dorado hops. Very juicy, vibrant, and fairly dank/earthy hops with balanced Norwegian farmhouse yeast complexity; and a great balanced pale/wheat malt backbone. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A very enjoyable, unique, and well made offering for a hybrid style.

 

Hazy, pale yellow with a finger-and-a-half of creamy-looking off-white head. Nice rings of lacing.

Distant green onion, citrus, pineapple and guava in the nose. There are slight yeasty and floral elements in there as well.

Pineapple and orange hard candy up front in the taste, again with a little green onion and also a touch of cream. There’s some very light herbal bitterness, which along with the dank, oniony character, prevents the beer from seeming too sweet.

Full bodied with with really strong fizziness punching through.

This is probably my favorite Transient IPA to date. They all give me a hard candy impression that I don’t always love, but there’s enough in here to balance it out in a way I find enjoyable.

 

 

 

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on November 22, 2018. Norwegian DDH DIPA. Notes of citrus, melon, stone fruit and slightly sweet malt.