Laser Cat
Medusa Brewing Company

Poured from a 16oz can into a tulip glass, laser cat has a stout soapy head that slowly dissolves into lacing. Color is bright gold and clear. Aroma is grapefruit, cantaloupe, and grassy with some lemon zest citrus. The taste starts very juicy with pineapple, clementine, guava, and apricot but finishes with grassy earth and dank pine resin. Mouthfeel is creamy and medium bodied with a moderate amount of carbonation. Great DIPA. Cheers!

 

16 oz can dated 04/22/25

Pours hazy golden amber orange with a dense creamy white foam head. Notes of sweet caramelized toasty bready wheaty malts, candied exotic tropical citrus fruits, starfruit, apricot, papaya, grapefruit, tangerine, and dank earthy herbal grassy resinous floral pine. Feels medium bodied, creamy slick with smooth moderate carbonation. Overall a nice IPA.

 

 

 

Bright gold color and brilliantly clear. Off-white head, that is dense and persists with lacing.
Moderate aroma of grapefruit plus other fruit, with some earthy notes.
Mice malty tase of grain and caramel, with a clean bitterness. Grapefruit/earthy flavor similar to aroma.
Medium body with high carbonation. A clean, earthy bitterness in the finish.
Thoroughly enjoyable DIPA.

 

 

Medusa Brewing Co. "Laser Cat"
16 fl. oz. can coded "JA 29 CANNED 03/13/23" and sampled on 07/16/23
$4.99 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ

Notes via stream of consciousness: Although it's a bit hazy this doesn't look like an NEIPA to me. Nothing listed on the label either. How is this possible, someone's brewing a non-NEIPA? Just kidding!!! It's a hazy amber-orange in color beneath a full head of densely rocky off-white foam. The aroma is malty with some caramel character, and hoppy with herbal, spicy, citrusy, floral, and lightly piney and resinous notes. I immediately though of Nugget hops and the label bears that out, although it also lists Citra, and while I get some citrus it's not as strong as I'd expect it to be. It's got a pretty good hoppiness to it though for a double or Imperial IPA as most tend more towards the malt. On to the taste then, it very much follows the aroma. There's some additional "dank" character and a twist of lemon on the hops side, and the caramelish malt remains. Those components are nicely rounded, and a solid bitterness backs it. Combined with a little bit of alcohol (it is 8%, right?) it finishes dry despite the maltiness that it has. It lingers with hoppy notes of spiciness, "dankness", herbs, and resinous pine. In the mouth it's medium-full in body and smooth with a gentle caress on the tongue from a fine-bubbled, moderate to median carbonation level. As I'd expected the head held up fairly well and it's left some decent lacing about the glass. This is certainly not the greatest Imperial IPA that I've ever had but I am fond of the use of Nugget hops (no one uses them anymore), and I think the blend with the Citra makes it quite unique. It's fairly well-brewed but more importantly, well put together in terms of formula.
Review #8,688

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium coppery, golden amber with a somewhat fizzy, one finger white head that dissipates to thick patches with light lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, citrus and dank hops, orange, mixed tropical fruit and some catty dankness. Flavor is caramel malt, citrus and tropical fruit hops, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, mango and touches of pine and dankness. Pine develops in the nicely bitter finish. Medium bodied with light creaminess and sharp, overactive carbonation. Very pleased to get a solid West Coast IPA from the New England area. Their blend of Citra and Nugget is quite winning with great finishing bitterness. The caramel malt is somewhat subdued, but adds some interest over pale malt, drier bases. The only drawback is the carbonation, which seemed a bit fizzy on the pour, but drew away from the enjoyment of the flavor. I'd be happy to see a somewhat carbonation tamed version of this again.

Served on tap in a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a clear golden orange color with a one finger head of white foam. The head has a good level of retention, fading over time and leaving a decent sum of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is strongest of a grapefruit and orange smell mixed with a rather strong bready and tropical fruits of tangerine, mango, and pineapple. Other aromas of an herbal and grassy smell as well as a bit of wheat and pine.
Taste – The taste begins with a sweeter citrus flavor of orange and tropical fruits as well as a decent showing of a bready and wheaty taste. At the same time there is a rather strong flavor of grapefruit and pine, with both getting stronger as the taste advances. Other flavors of apricot, peach, and a bit of light alcohol are there as well and with a bit of herb and lemon, leaving one with a rather nice and flavorful taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is slightly thicker and more-chewy with a carbonation level that is rather low. Overall, quite nice for the tastes and the style and makes for a nice sipper.
Overall – A rather nice double making for a good and flavorful sipper. One to try if you have a chance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look...Tan and clear with a frothy white head
Smell...Light citrus hop with some grassy dankness. Only 3 weeks old so I assume it might have been a bit better earlier but not significantly for this style
Taste...a solid frothy sweetness to start. West Coast style for sure with the malty citrus execution with an equitable bitterness. Definitely an imperial IPA start and finish. The dry finish invites more drinks. A small indication of alcohol that I simply ignore .HAHA
Feel...Thin and dangerously slick with some detection of alcohol
Overall...This is a good well executed beer. Not a game changer but a style many will like. I am definitely willing to try more styles from Medusa Brewing. Well made for sure