Big Tom's Milkshake of the Month: Triple Berry Jubilee
Three Magnets Brewing

 

From a 16 oz can into a stem glass. Pours cloudy gold-apricot with head and lace. Aroma of grains and fruity cereal notes. Significant carbonation and mouthfeel. Flavors of grains, pale malt, dried strawberry fruit, persimmon, peaches, mumbo jumbo fluky wooky hunga bunga. Overall flavorful and fruity, interesting for this moment.

 

16 oz can, thanks bro- Pours hazy purple with a light pink to purple head that reduces leaving a moderate sized blanket. Aroma is berry, blueberries, raspberries, strawberry, cherry, a whole lot of berry. The taste is berries, but not as sweet as the aroma led on, the hops dry everything out, very little residual sweetness here, and a piney resinous quality is present throughout. Definitely an IPA, and the bitterness although not all that pronounced at first, lingers and builds throughout.

 

Canned 8/14/18, consumed 8/25/18

The nose on this is pretty nice - fresh fruity and creamy vanilla. Really pick up all the fruit juices.

Everything else is just average. Not all that appealing hazy & cloudy plum color. Taste wasn't anywhere near as creamy, fresh, and fruity as the aroma suggested. Feel was a bit thin, too low carbonation.

Just not creamy and milkshaky like you'd be expecting from the description and even the aroma. Oh well, still ISO a milkshake IPA that lives up to the hype.

 

Pour is a muddy plum colour. The shade of a smoothie and it looks... not thick, but suspended? Pulpy. Head is white mainly and nondescript. Settles quickly into a little cap and stays there.

Nose is sweet with fruit and vanilla. Creamy and a good malt body. Hops get mostly lost in the wash of vanilla and fruit.

I get a primarily vanilla lead in, but less sweet actually than I'd anticipated. Steps through bitter citrus into like the outline of berry sweetness... Like the bridge is supposed to be vanilla sweet through juicy hops into berry sweet, is what it seems, but instead the vanilla is kind of muted, the hops come out almost to the lime side of citrus, and the berries are the earthy center of the berry, around which all of the seed clusters gather, or the skin of the blueberry.

Body is medium and almost like chalky-sticky somehow. Moderate carbonation. Finish carries the chalky descriptor above along with a dull pithy hop bitterness.

This is the first 'milkshake' IPA I've ever had, so I can't speak to it within that context particularly well, but as an experience, it just serves to remind me of my incredulity at how/why this style fad became as big of a hit as it has.