Django
OEC Brewing (Ordinem Ecentrici Coctores)

 

End of pour de-CAN-ts (homage to @woodychandler) yeast, resulting in a hazy, unfiltered look. Copy on the can didn’t mention whether it was actually unfiltered. Other rated attributes also deviate somewhat from the other IPLs I’ve had. A little idiosyncratic, but not in an unpleasant way.

 

Can from Vinyl Beer of the UES NYC. Pours a hazy dark orange with two fingers of foamy white head that sticks around, nice lacing, smell is dark wheat bread, brown bread dinner rolls, mild sour herbaceous spice, hints of honey in caramel, taste follows with funky whole wheat brown bread, graham crackers, and mild honey/brown sugar sweetness, tangy grassy finish, feel is medium to light bodied, bright and crisp carbonation. A beautiful funky, bready, herbaceous treat.

Poured from a 16oz can dated 11/3/20 to a Nonic straight from the beer fridge.
Snow white puffy head over a gold hazy body.
Aroma is musty with a slight sense of soap.
Taste is hoppy but finishes with a musty wet-forest taste. Not bad, just very different. Leaves the empty mouth dry with an urge to pucker.
Body is on the high side of medium.
Overall, a very different beer. I honestly cannot form an overall opinion yet. There's one more in the fridge. Maybe I'll edit this review in a few days.

A: The beer is rather hazy yellow in color and has hues of amber. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that died down but consistently left lots of lacing on the surface and the sides of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of orange and grapefruit zest are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and has lots of flavors of citrus zest. There is a light to moderate amount of bitterness.
M: It feels medium-bodied, clean and a bit crisp on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I really enjoyed the aromas and flavor of citrus zest in this IPL.

Serving type: can

This one pours a mostly clear dark-ish orange color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells unfortunately a bit too malty, with lemony hops, orange, and a slight metallic thing.

OEC is one of my favorite breweries, easily - due to how good they are at lagers and truly weird wild ales and historic beers. Unfortunately, they are not all that great at hoppy beers, for whatever reason. This is just too malty, with a grainy sweetness. The hop character is there, but just not strong and vibrant enough to block out that malt backbone. I get lemony hop character, as well as some maybe orange rind and floral/perfumey character.

This is medium bodied, a bit too 'big' and not crisp enough. It's drinkable enough, I guess.

I wanted to like this one more, for sure.

No canning date (released on 11/3/20, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 12/5/20

Pours a lightly foggy dark gold-orange body topped with just shy of two fingers of semi-creamy, fluffy white foam; good head retention leaves a thin layer of cap, moderate, frothy collar, and a chunky webby of lacing dispersed evenly around the walls of the glass.

Aroma offers notes of apricot oil and distant hints of lime into tropical fruits building against established undertones of minerality; musty grain accentuates the contrasting brightness of straw intertwined with papaya and pineapple with a crisp, herbal, semi-sweetness over the course of the bouquet.

Taste opens with underripe guava and mango peel, establishing a fruity foundation for woody caramel malt and tones of wet incense over the mid-palate as deepening tropical notes of underripe orange and a touch of white grape form the back end; sweet cereal grain, fresh-cut grass, and lingering tropical fruity esters linger through the finish.

Mouthfeel features a light-medium body and a moderate, pillowy carbonation actively dissipating to a fluffy, malty grit over the mid-palate before developing a steady, crisp texture as prickly bitterness lingers past the dry finish; a subtle, juicy character comes through on the swallow.

Diverse and unique layers mark an IPL both aggressively flavorful and cleverly restrained; an impressive expression of fruity hops splayed atop a malty lager base with an intertwined symbiosis paying heed to both elements of the style.