Spin Cycle #10
New England Brewing Co.

From a 32oz growler, filled at the brewery yesterday. Served in a willi glass.

Pours a hazy semi-opaque honey-gold with three fingers of lush, lathery, lumpy head. Retention is very good, finally settling down to a solid sudsy cap and a thick, sticky webbery of lacing.

The smell is clean, sweet and fresh, lemon juice and orange sticky buns. Lacking in intensity, but nice.

Taste is similar to the nose, the lemon and the orange, but with a healthy addition of grapefruit bitterness, some pineapple and poundcake. Finishes with lingering tongue-coating tingly grapefruit and pine hop oil

Feel is clean and quenching, medium bodied with no more than average carbonation.

An interesting beer. First off, you'd never guess it was a DIPA, at least not until you'd polished off the growler and tried to get up off the sofa. The only other NEBCo beer I've had was Sea Hag and I could instantly taste that this was its cousin but gone off in a richer, smoother, fruitier direction, what with the citra and mosaic, and the oats. I went out looking for the brewers' description after I'd written my own notes and, now that I know, I realize that's what I was picking up as poundcake was probably the oats sort of smoothing off the edges. At any rate, I liked it rather a lot.