Blueberry Frosted Tips
WeldWerks Brewing Co.
- From:
- WeldWerks Brewing Co.
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 18, 2020
- Added:
- Dec 17, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
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Milkshake Double IPA brewed with 100% Chinook hops, vanilla, milk sugar, spruce tips, and over 3000 lbs of blueberry puree.
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
16 fl oz can nabbed at Weldwerks earlier today:
"Double India Pale Ale"..."Brewed with 100% Chinook hops, Vanilla, Milk Sugar, Spruce Tips, and over 3,000lbs of blueberry puree."
Served cold into a Mastercraft glass.
APPEARANCE: Pink head. Not very frothy or creamy, but it lasts a good ~3 minutes which isn't bad for the beer's ABV.
Body colour is a dark dull red. No yeast/lees are visible within.
Looks rather fruity for an IIPA. Promises a beer dominated by its blueberry additive if its colour is to be trusted.
AROMA: Heavy on off-putting lactose sugar sweetness, blueberry puree, and simple syrup rather than hops. Hops ought to be the emphasis in any imperial IPA but this aroma suggests that isn't the case here.
I can find the vanilla (i.e. vanillin/artificial vanilla flavoring, not authentic vanilla bean) and spruce tips when I search for them but the lactose sugar drowns them out for the most part...I hope that isn't the case in the beer's flavour as well.
The blueberry aroma indicates canned blueberry puree or similar, not actual blueberries/bilberries. Not very tart nor juicy, unlike the better blueberry beer aromas out there.
I detect zero Chinook (or any other hop varietal) aromatics in this aroma. Seems like a decent fruit beer brewed with lactose but a poor attempt at the intended (IIPA) style.
Aromatic intensity is moderate. The vanillin emerges more as the beer comes to temperature.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Silky yet thick, yielding a sludgy feel on the palate. Full-bodied and viscous, riddled with residual sugars, undesirable milk sugar sweetness, and berry skin sludge. A shallow blueberry puree flavour is present throughout but this lacks a very vivid, expressive, or tart blueberry flavour with none if the juicy bursts of berry you'd want in a beer with this premise.
I don't taste any genuine vanilla bean or spruce, but there is some faint vanillin (think vanilla Chobani)/artificial vanilla flavoring in the mix.
Fails to showcase Chinook hops at all, nor does it evoke any hop flavour...how this could be well regarded as an expression of an Imperial IPA is beyond me.
Not as saccharine as it could be but it's certainly imbalanced. The milk sugar isn't helping this beer in any way except perhaps in helping to drown out its ABV with cloying sweetness.
Well carbonated, which is the best thing I can probably say about its severely problematic mouthfeel.
OVERALL: It's a bit of a chore to drink, to be honest, between its depleted berry skin/cloying milk sugar flavour profile and its sludgy-thick mouthfeel. The absence of any hop flavour whatsoever makes it a decidedly poor attempt at an IIPA, but treating it more fairly as a sort of fruited ale with milk sugar, it's decent - though I wouldn't want a second can (or pour from this one).
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Dec 18, 2020"Double India Pale Ale"..."Brewed with 100% Chinook hops, Vanilla, Milk Sugar, Spruce Tips, and over 3,000lbs of blueberry puree."
Served cold into a Mastercraft glass.
APPEARANCE: Pink head. Not very frothy or creamy, but it lasts a good ~3 minutes which isn't bad for the beer's ABV.
Body colour is a dark dull red. No yeast/lees are visible within.
Looks rather fruity for an IIPA. Promises a beer dominated by its blueberry additive if its colour is to be trusted.
AROMA: Heavy on off-putting lactose sugar sweetness, blueberry puree, and simple syrup rather than hops. Hops ought to be the emphasis in any imperial IPA but this aroma suggests that isn't the case here.
I can find the vanilla (i.e. vanillin/artificial vanilla flavoring, not authentic vanilla bean) and spruce tips when I search for them but the lactose sugar drowns them out for the most part...I hope that isn't the case in the beer's flavour as well.
The blueberry aroma indicates canned blueberry puree or similar, not actual blueberries/bilberries. Not very tart nor juicy, unlike the better blueberry beer aromas out there.
I detect zero Chinook (or any other hop varietal) aromatics in this aroma. Seems like a decent fruit beer brewed with lactose but a poor attempt at the intended (IIPA) style.
Aromatic intensity is moderate. The vanillin emerges more as the beer comes to temperature.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Silky yet thick, yielding a sludgy feel on the palate. Full-bodied and viscous, riddled with residual sugars, undesirable milk sugar sweetness, and berry skin sludge. A shallow blueberry puree flavour is present throughout but this lacks a very vivid, expressive, or tart blueberry flavour with none if the juicy bursts of berry you'd want in a beer with this premise.
I don't taste any genuine vanilla bean or spruce, but there is some faint vanillin (think vanilla Chobani)/artificial vanilla flavoring in the mix.
Fails to showcase Chinook hops at all, nor does it evoke any hop flavour...how this could be well regarded as an expression of an Imperial IPA is beyond me.
Not as saccharine as it could be but it's certainly imbalanced. The milk sugar isn't helping this beer in any way except perhaps in helping to drown out its ABV with cloying sweetness.
Well carbonated, which is the best thing I can probably say about its severely problematic mouthfeel.
OVERALL: It's a bit of a chore to drink, to be honest, between its depleted berry skin/cloying milk sugar flavour profile and its sludgy-thick mouthfeel. The absence of any hop flavour whatsoever makes it a decidedly poor attempt at an IIPA, but treating it more fairly as a sort of fruited ale with milk sugar, it's decent - though I wouldn't want a second can (or pour from this one).
High C / AVERAGE
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