Sticky Crystals
Sycamore Brewing

Delicious, quaffable, but if you’re looking favorably for bitterness, you’ll be disappointed. Not much, if any here. A surpurb NE IPA.

Look: It pours cloudy dark yellow with a white head. Head retention is excellent.

Smell: It has pineapple and melon aromas with sweetness.

Taste: It has resin like qualities with tropical fruits and melons in the flavors. There is a bit of grainy sweetness and resin.

Feel: It has a medium body with a thickness on the tongue.

Overall, interesting mixture of flavors with the resin and thickness of a hazy IPA.

 

Canned 12/01/22 on bottom of can. Poured into a BA teku — Hell Yeah!

A: Hazy pineapple juice hue with 1-2 finger white frothy head with good retention, and several thick bands of lacing.

S: Pineapple, coconut, strawberry, and lime hop aromas with minor pale malt component adding a little bit of sweetness. Esters are bubblegum, raspberry cotton candy. Alcohol is not detectable. Bitterness is low.

T: Flavor is sweeter with more malt and ester contribution than the aroma. The name fits as the flavor is thick with candied pineapple, mango/peach, candied orange, berry, lime, and light herbal notes
In the finish. It’s not malty but the pale pils sweetness is there too. Esters are heavy and candy-like. Alcohol is possibly adding some more sweetness. Bitterness is low.

M: Feel is reasonably thick with medium plus Body, moderate carbonation, and thick finish which is on target for the style.

O: A sweet expression of the NEIPA STYLE. Sabro hopping is prominent and adds to the sweetness by amping up the tropical, fruity characteristics. Sticky crystals is an appropriate name for this sweet NEIPA.

 

 

Server in a Teku glass from the can.

Appearance: Hazy yellow with medium bubbles and a white head. Settles quick with even lacing.

Smell: Light floral with pink Grapefruit skin.

Taste: Complex coming off a bit sweet, citrus juice. Slight sugar cane meets flowers, hoppy and smooth all at once.

Mouth: Touch dry with a bit of lemon skin and malt shake feel at the end. In lust.

Overall: Pretty good brew, perfect intro for the night. Going to follow up with one of my favorite milkshake IPAs. Always in a glass. Salud.

 

 

16 ounce can in a genuine IPA glass. Just about six weeks since canned, so fresh enough.

Pours a golden straw color, clouded with proteins. The glassware helped construct a solid 3F white cap that dropped to a thick film and left soapy lacing.

Dank, musty, and tropical. There’s wet grain and yeast underneath.

Hop forward. Tropical fruit, biting earthy herbal essence.

The tiny bubble carbonation brings some tang to its medium bodied chew. Initial sugars are beat back by intense hop bitterness and dry finish.

An all American modern IPA. Sabro hops shine. I love the “7.04” abv, lol. It wakes up the taste buds.

 

I got a can of this beer from my bestie. It poured a hazy yellow with white head that is leaving some lace. The scent had dank fruit notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with dank tropical fruit peel presence. The mouthfeel was medium in body with good carbonation. Overall its a solid beer.

16 oz can served in a lager glass.
Pours with a cloudy amber body with a very durable white head that leaves plenty of lacing sticking to the glass.
Aroma. Hops with a load of tropical fruit notes.
Flavor. Also quite fruity. Moderately bitter and at least moderately hoppy for the style.
Feel. Excellent lively but soft feel from a medium body.

 

Pours a bit on the murky side and looks kinda dark like there's some oxygenation. Nose is still nice with some sweet onion, overripe melon, and tropical notes. Taste is more-or-less along those same lines. A hint of residual sweetness like powdered sugar, but actually middle of the road in terms of dryness. Pretty damn good beer that could do with a little less sludgy look and a bit more pop in the nose and flavor to get to the next level.