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Pours a milky hazy pale orange-pineapple juice colour with finger of off white head.
Aroma is a winner - sweet citrus, pineapple, orange with leafy hop notes.
Taste is grapefruit pith, orange, some pineapple but with an underlying astringent hoppy bitterness. Medium full mouthfeel that is at once bitter yet creamy leaving with a bitter astringency lingering at the finish.

 

 

473ml can - a 'Kveik Double IPA', made in collaboration with Fernie Brewing, and something called rock and roll. I'm just shittin' y'all - cranking some long-neglected Turbonegro as I write this (though I'm sure QOTSA's cover is great too).

This beer pours a sludgy, medium apricot yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some random splotchy and chunky lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, a bit of estery yeastiness, and some leafy, weedy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and bready pale malt, mixed domestic citrus peel, a damp minerality, and more leafy, musty, and resinous piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really making a scene at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the stoney and hoppy essences running the lingering sideshow.

Overall - this yeast variant seems to be getting a lot of love from brewers of late, and I don't know what the big fuss is about. This just comes across very much like a well-made, New England-style DIPA, with an expertly integrated 18-proof booze quotient. Worth checking out, especially since it won't give you a headache in your pants (YMMV, as it might make one wasted again...I'm here all night, folks!).