Say Me Fantastic
Mikerphone Brewing

 

 

 

Look like orange juice with white foam, nice and hazy/pulpy. Smell is huge orange, mango, of course pineapple, grass and hop bitters. A potent and wonderful combination. Taste is more pineapple forward, with the hops coming through strong on the finish with supporting melon, orange, mango, and peach in between. Feel is smooth and refreshing.

 

 

Thanks to 4truth for this 750ML bottle. In case nobody has noticed, Mikerphone’s a pretty good brewery. Split with my wife.

The pour is fad-of-the-day orange juice, even closer to the real thing than most of the genre. Plenty of life to the pours. It says pineapple on the label, but I would have guessed orange & mango reporting into my nose. Stupid nose.

Say Me Fantastic is something I just had to Google to see if my old ass was missing some Millennial pop reference, & it led me to the song “Boombastic” by Shaggy. If that’s the reference – well, I’ve heard eight year old on Casio keyboards make better music. “Music”. The beer is about x1635 better. The pineapple is lovely, intense, along with a sharp bitterness & gum-sucking dryness. I could drink this like water after falling out of my boat. Which I haven’t done. Yet.

It’s hard to make something so simple so tasty, unless you’re the rare American brewer who can make a beautiful pilsner. This? This is beautiful & the best I've had yet from Mikerphone. Bar, high. Excellent beer.

Ultra-milky goldenrod body with a smooth white head and an EKG-style lace pattern. It's so damn cloudy with yeast? malt residue? dust? that it's actually better than turbid-scummy type beers. Still not pretty. The nose is rife with overripe fruit derived from hops, evident through the bitterness, as well as authentic pineapple, in a supporting role. It has the same moderate pineapple flair on the taste, still behind the fruity, bitter hops. It has some sweetness but is more than balanced by some serious bitterness. The added fruit is tasty and in a good proportion to the rest of it, but neither it nor the beer-essential ingredients combine to make this an incredible brew. Feels medium/full-bodied, with plenty of fine prickles of carbonation.
Preeeeetty good, it did a good job of showcasing pineapple without making it juice. The cloudiness was absurd, but apart from that this was a great presentation.

 

 

Bottled 8/16/17; drank 8/26/17 @ the Yarchives.

Opaque orange juice appearance.

A rough pour yielded a nice bright white head; frothy lace.

Dry wheat, orange rind, mild pineapple & faint dry grass notes in the nose.

Creamy medium thick mouthfeel.

Cane sugar & pineapple flavors up front; dry grass & faint booze heat notes on the finish. Like all NE IPA's, the addition of fruit paradoxically makes this taste more artificial & less natural. Not terrible, but give me a fruity NE IPA using only hops any day of the week. I've had my last.

 

 

Really juicy! Tons of pineapple. I feel like the pineapple was blended in very nicely. Even better than the first batch. Slight bitterness from the fruit. Great body. Love it!

 

 

 

A - Pours a very cloudy, murky yellow. Looks like a pineapple cream milk shake.
S - Juicy pineapple aroma.
T - Flavor is lots of pineapple juice. The bitterness seems to come from the pineapple rather than the hops.
M - Average mouth feel and carbonation.
O - This is an enjoyable beer, but 1 glass is enough. I split my first bomber with 2 others and thought the beer was great. Tried to drink the second bomber myself a couple days later and could not do it. The pineapple was just too intense.

Pineapple was just a bit too much.