Juicy Gorilla Snax
Wild Ride Brewing Co.

Pours a creamsicle orange with a finger and a half of foamy head that lingers into a thick cap with plenty of lacing. Aroma of citrus and orange. Taste follows nose under carbonated and a bit chewy.

2021-03-12
6oz sample glass at the brewery.

Pours moderately hazy, light amber, with a small head. Smells like juicy oranges and pineapple -- orange smoothie.

Taste is still juicy, but with a solid pine bitterness -- and a little bit of a homebrew funk.

Mouthfeel is light and dry. Overall, it's a pretty good beer.

great hop profile on this one, but not a very well refined beer overall, at least in this experience, dull and dense and quite flat looking from the tap, i really want more head on my hazy beer, and more carbonation in them, especially with all this body, just seems a little amateur in terms of execution, but its nice to see new beer from these guys in the market and the hop profile makes this for me. very much juicy as the name implies, orange and cloudy and close to still looking, but with big tangerine, mango, and even cantaloupe notes from the hops, apricot too maybe, apricot jelly, sweet and concentrated like that, very appealing. the flavor is similar, almost no bitterness, a little muted compared to the nose, not malty at all in taste but certainly in feel, dry cereal flavor supporting the hops well, if obscuring them slightly, deep and starchy feeling to me, a raw element to it as well, but it works with the hops. i do want more bubbles picking it all up, and with that and a head on it it would be really solid, but for now its just a cool expression of whatever hops come together in here and isnt a great beer from an objective quality standpoint, even though the ferment is pretty clean. a nice change of pace in the style in terms of flavor, id love to know what hops they used...

 

On tap in meridian ID; served in a pint glass.

A: Moderately-hazed bright orange, bright and attractive, with a fair bit of wispy white head and minimal lacing.

S: Soft, juicy impressions of citrus, tropical fruits, and stone fruit, nectarine and apricot.

T: Straight-forward hop profile follows the nose with juicy tones and plenty of apricot, orange, mango, impressions of pink grapefruit; underlying, fleshy fruit hop bite provides some bitterness.

MF: Medium bodied, juicy and then slightly dry.

O: Enjoyable, quality IPA bordering on a NEIPA at times with good fruity character and a hazy body, but with enough bite to hang in there start-to-finish, so not exactly what I would call “soft”.