Science Juice
Transient Artisan Ales

 

Received from @fbarber. No evident canning date. Poured into a pub glass. It pours a hazy, pale orange with more than a finger of foamy, bright white head and thick, creamy lacing. The nose offers mostly lemon and grapefruit with whiffs of pineapple and melon and floral hops. Its taste opens with tart citrus with hints of pineapple. The malt in the background offers additional sweetness that is almost honey-like. I couldn't determine the hop bill. The mouth feel is creamy with pleasant carbonation and the 8% ABV gives it good substance but doesn't overwhelm. Overall, Science Juice is rather hard to describe in terms of its taste; it's like the beer equivalent of a sweet and sour sauce. But I very much enjoyed it.

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on September 17, 2021.

Pale, cloudy bright yellow color, no nose I could find. Tastes strongly of lemon pith and bitterness up front. Not bad, very light but too bitter to really crush in the summer so it's an odd one.

A - Pours a cloudy orange with a one finger creamy white head. The head fades fast leaving light soapy lacing.

S - Aroma is orange, mango and pineapple.

T - The taste is orange, tangerine, pineapple, cantaloupe and a light bitter finish.

M - Medium with medium carbonation. Soft mouthfeel with a nice crisp finish.

O - Interesting take on Juice Is Loose. Big tropical fruits with the hop extracts add a light bitterness. Extremely crushable at 8% abv.

This is a “Juice Is Loose” variant or one-off made “with all sorts of new hop extracts and compounds for an experimental batch of Science Juice” vs the Citra and Simcoe (I believe) used in “regular” Juice. Let’s see where this takes us.

This looks like regular Juice on the pour, with a hazy, approaching turbid pineapple colored body propping up a creamy white head that laces the glass beautifully. The nose, though is decidedly different, with a more exotic hop profile that is more on the pineapple/passion fruit/guava side of the spectrum than the dank citrus/earthy aromas from the original Juice.

The taste is really heavy on the pineapple and guava, and there’s some passion fruit as well. This is decidedly poundable, but I’m a bit more of a fan of the original’s dank citrus flavor profile.