Wavelength
Bearded Iris Brewing
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- Style:
- IPA - Imperial
Ranked #666 - ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- 92
Ranked #4,897 - Avg:
- 4.24 | pDev: 6.37%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- From:
- Bearded Iris Brewing
- Tennessee, United States
- Avail:
- Rotating/Seasonal
- Wants
- 1
- Gots
- 2
SCORE
92
Outstanding
92
Outstanding
Notes:
Wavelength channels the pulse of Vic Secret, Citra, and El Dorado into an intense surge of tropical fruit.
Reviews: 11
| Ratings: 41
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larryi86 from Delaware
4.13/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Thank you Buck89 for this
16 oz can, dated 6/10/20, poured into a pint glass
A- A hazy golden orange with a small white head.
S- Dank, citrus, tropical fruits, stone fruits, wet grass.
T- Dank, citrus, some tropical fruits, touch of stone fruits, hints of wet grass, a little floral, faint hints of malt sweetness.
M- Smooth, medium body.
O- A little dank for a NEIPA, but I enjoy that part. The wet grass and stone fruit flavors kind of bring this beer down but not to a point that I don’t enjoy it.
Jun 28, 2020
4.13/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Thank you Buck89 for this
16 oz can, dated 6/10/20, poured into a pint glass
A- A hazy golden orange with a small white head.
S- Dank, citrus, tropical fruits, stone fruits, wet grass.
T- Dank, citrus, some tropical fruits, touch of stone fruits, hints of wet grass, a little floral, faint hints of malt sweetness.
M- Smooth, medium body.
O- A little dank for a NEIPA, but I enjoy that part. The wet grass and stone fruit flavors kind of bring this beer down but not to a point that I don’t enjoy it.
Jun 28, 2020
hoptheology from South Dakota
4.53/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
16 oz can, dated 1/7/20, Odell Teku.
A glowing yet still juicy/hazy peach honey color with a creamy head of 2 fingers, receding to 1 very slowly.
Aroma is citric and floral and herbal, just a nice balance overall. Notably dank grapefruit, starfruit, blood orange, apricot, and pineapple.
Flavor is just a total sleeper. It has so much power and flavor but drinks like a session beer. Powerful papaya, apricot, and mango open it up with following notes of pineapple juice, grapefruit, orange juice, pine, and tangerines.
Feel is juicy and acidic, lacking a little creaminess but this beer is all about the cut - and has lovely sticky resins hanging on. Alcohol heat doesn't creep up until about halfway through the can where it has been building, as well as the resins.
Overall just a fantastic beer. It's a clean and resinous juice bomb that brings the flavor hardcore and even at 2 months this beer shows no sign of stopping. This is something I'll make a point to stock up on when I go back to Tennessee. What a killer brew.
Feb 26, 2020
4.53/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
16 oz can, dated 1/7/20, Odell Teku.
A glowing yet still juicy/hazy peach honey color with a creamy head of 2 fingers, receding to 1 very slowly.
Aroma is citric and floral and herbal, just a nice balance overall. Notably dank grapefruit, starfruit, blood orange, apricot, and pineapple.
Flavor is just a total sleeper. It has so much power and flavor but drinks like a session beer. Powerful papaya, apricot, and mango open it up with following notes of pineapple juice, grapefruit, orange juice, pine, and tangerines.
Feel is juicy and acidic, lacking a little creaminess but this beer is all about the cut - and has lovely sticky resins hanging on. Alcohol heat doesn't creep up until about halfway through the can where it has been building, as well as the resins.
Overall just a fantastic beer. It's a clean and resinous juice bomb that brings the flavor hardcore and even at 2 months this beer shows no sign of stopping. This is something I'll make a point to stock up on when I go back to Tennessee. What a killer brew.
Feb 26, 2020
chinchill from South Carolina
3.63/5 rDev -14.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Shared 16 oz can.
Look: Pours with a hazy pale golden body with a decent white head.
Unusual fruity aroma.
Better flavor than the aroma suggests, with decent complexity in a mainly fruity mix.
Dec 05, 2019
3.63/5 rDev -14.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Shared 16 oz can.
Look: Pours with a hazy pale golden body with a decent white head.
Unusual fruity aroma.
Better flavor than the aroma suggests, with decent complexity in a mainly fruity mix.
Dec 05, 2019
JamFuel from Sweden
4.28/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Pours a hazy orange with soft, fluffy head.
Smell is juicy and soft, with notes of melon, oranges and mango.
Taste is juicy, but with a solidbitterness. Notes of melon, pine, pineapple and some floral hints. Very well balanced, and very little booziness.
Mouthfeel is medium, soft and pillowy, well carbonated.
Overall, a very nice IPA, sort of a hybrid style.
May 15, 2019
4.28/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Pours a hazy orange with soft, fluffy head.
Smell is juicy and soft, with notes of melon, oranges and mango.
Taste is juicy, but with a solidbitterness. Notes of melon, pine, pineapple and some floral hints. Very well balanced, and very little booziness.
Mouthfeel is medium, soft and pillowy, well carbonated.
Overall, a very nice IPA, sort of a hybrid style.
May 15, 2019
Buck89 from Tennessee
4.15/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Fresh can poured into a snifter. Nice-looking - a hazy bright yellow-gold with a medium sized fluffy white head. Interesting aroma. Tropical notes mixed with herbal with a touch of something like sulfur? Not offensive, just unusual. Works for me. The taste brought citrus followed by earthy/herbal/floral notes. Again, unusual. Not bad, just hard to describe. Citrus poked it's head back through on the finish. Medium bodied with slight booze on the finish. Overall, an outstanding BIBCO beer but not in my top group from them.
Apr 29, 2019
4.15/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Fresh can poured into a snifter. Nice-looking - a hazy bright yellow-gold with a medium sized fluffy white head. Interesting aroma. Tropical notes mixed with herbal with a touch of something like sulfur? Not offensive, just unusual. Works for me. The taste brought citrus followed by earthy/herbal/floral notes. Again, unusual. Not bad, just hard to describe. Citrus poked it's head back through on the finish. Medium bodied with slight booze on the finish. Overall, an outstanding BIBCO beer but not in my top group from them.
Apr 29, 2019
CanConPhilly from Pennsylvania
4.08/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4
L - 1 and a half fingers of frothy eggshell white head atop an appealing orange juice body. This is a stunner.
S - herb, bread, skunk?, grapefruit. Unusual. Hoping it doesn’t taste like skunk.
T - interesting. No skunk thankfully. Floral hops at first, that are quickly crushed by a wave of bitter grapefruit. Bread, a good hit of dank, sweet orange flesh, some booze, just a hint of cheese. Moderate bitterness. Low sweetness. Moderate-low booziness.
F - medium-full body with average carb.
O - I’m torn on this one. Without the floral/skunk aspect it would be an all star, but I find that aspect a little too dominant and distracting. It’s nicely bitter and incredibly flavorful. I think it’s the El Dorado that throws this off.
Nov 04, 2018
4.08/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4
L - 1 and a half fingers of frothy eggshell white head atop an appealing orange juice body. This is a stunner.
S - herb, bread, skunk?, grapefruit. Unusual. Hoping it doesn’t taste like skunk.
T - interesting. No skunk thankfully. Floral hops at first, that are quickly crushed by a wave of bitter grapefruit. Bread, a good hit of dank, sweet orange flesh, some booze, just a hint of cheese. Moderate bitterness. Low sweetness. Moderate-low booziness.
F - medium-full body with average carb.
O - I’m torn on this one. Without the floral/skunk aspect it would be an all star, but I find that aspect a little too dominant and distracting. It’s nicely bitter and incredibly flavorful. I think it’s the El Dorado that throws this off.
Nov 04, 2018
digboy from New Hampshire
4.63/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
This is my first BI beer. Got it at Can Jam at Deciduous in NH. Shout out for bringing it!
Pours a rich gold color with a offwhite one finger hed. Aroma is nicely balanced with citrus and nectarine dryness. Same with taste, full of hop flavor, nothing off. Present pale malt base gives it depth. Feel is super smooth and creamy with no burn and a seltzer tingle on the finish.
Just fantastic! Can't say enough good things.
Nov 03, 2018
4.63/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
This is my first BI beer. Got it at Can Jam at Deciduous in NH. Shout out for bringing it!
Pours a rich gold color with a offwhite one finger hed. Aroma is nicely balanced with citrus and nectarine dryness. Same with taste, full of hop flavor, nothing off. Present pale malt base gives it depth. Feel is super smooth and creamy with no burn and a seltzer tingle on the finish.
Just fantastic! Can't say enough good things.
Nov 03, 2018
BeerBourbonAndBooty from Tennessee
3/5 rDev -29.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Having lived in Tampa for a year and a half and being able to drink Jai Alai any time I wanted, I perhaps had too high of expectations when trying this beer. It pours a funky unfiltered color looking like a darker Blue Moon or almost like orange juice. Taste is good but it’s not really an IPA to me. IPA’s are supposed to have a bite and this is honestly like a watered down version of Elysian Space Dust. Save your money and get a full 6er of Space Dust if you’re looking for a similar yet better taste. The beer is good, just not top notch when comparing to some of the finer IPA’s I’ve tasted. Not as bubbly as I like my IPA’s either. JAI ALAI ALL DAY
Nov 03, 2018
3/5 rDev -29.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Having lived in Tampa for a year and a half and being able to drink Jai Alai any time I wanted, I perhaps had too high of expectations when trying this beer. It pours a funky unfiltered color looking like a darker Blue Moon or almost like orange juice. Taste is good but it’s not really an IPA to me. IPA’s are supposed to have a bite and this is honestly like a watered down version of Elysian Space Dust. Save your money and get a full 6er of Space Dust if you’re looking for a similar yet better taste. The beer is good, just not top notch when comparing to some of the finer IPA’s I’ve tasted. Not as bubbly as I like my IPA’s either. JAI ALAI ALL DAY
Nov 03, 2018
buschbeer from Ohio
4.25/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
SIXTEEN FL. OZ. can
Served in an oversized, stemless, wine glass
This beer pours like pineapple juice. It is topped with an inch of beige head that leaves spotty lacing.
The smell has loads of tropical fruit with a little pine.
The taste is tropical goodness with grapefruit in the finish.
Medium mouthfeel
This is a tasty gem. It goes down so smooth for the abv.
Apr 23, 2018
4.25/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
SIXTEEN FL. OZ. can
Served in an oversized, stemless, wine glass
This beer pours like pineapple juice. It is topped with an inch of beige head that leaves spotty lacing.
The smell has loads of tropical fruit with a little pine.
The taste is tropical goodness with grapefruit in the finish.
Medium mouthfeel
This is a tasty gem. It goes down so smooth for the abv.
Apr 23, 2018
Holderness from Massachusetts
4.02/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
Canned 4 weeks ago.
L — Hazy deep orange body with a scant finger of white head produced with aerated pour. Very minimal retention or lacing
S — Juicy and dank. Grapefruit, peach, floral, creamsicle, new sneaker, lemon zest. Remarkably strong vanillin character
T — Mango, lactose, herbal woodsiness, grapefruit pith, green onion, hint of floral. A little aggressive on the bitterness, but that’s somewhat offset by the lactose sweetness
F — Oddly thin and lacking in dimensionality for the ABV. Medium+ mouthfeel, medium+ carb. These issues might also explain the somewhat odd appearance
O — Reminds me a lot of the Other Half DIPA offerings I’ve tried: very dank, more bitter than the best NEIPAs, but helped out by a lactosey sweetness (although I’m not even sure if lactose is actually used here or it’s some other non-fermentable sugar)
81/100
Apr 20, 2018
4.02/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
Canned 4 weeks ago.
L — Hazy deep orange body with a scant finger of white head produced with aerated pour. Very minimal retention or lacing
S — Juicy and dank. Grapefruit, peach, floral, creamsicle, new sneaker, lemon zest. Remarkably strong vanillin character
T — Mango, lactose, herbal woodsiness, grapefruit pith, green onion, hint of floral. A little aggressive on the bitterness, but that’s somewhat offset by the lactose sweetness
F — Oddly thin and lacking in dimensionality for the ABV. Medium+ mouthfeel, medium+ carb. These issues might also explain the somewhat odd appearance
O — Reminds me a lot of the Other Half DIPA offerings I’ve tried: very dank, more bitter than the best NEIPAs, but helped out by a lactosey sweetness (although I’m not even sure if lactose is actually used here or it’s some other non-fermentable sugar)
81/100
Apr 20, 2018
GuyFawkes from Illinois
4/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Canned 3/19/18; drank 3/30/18 @ the Yarchives.
Opaque orange/yellow appearance; champagne bubbles throughout.
A rough pour yielded a small white head; minimal lace.
Pineapple, dry wheat & mild cream notes in the nose.
Soft, medium mouthfeel.
Tangy pineapple & faint cream flavors up front; dry wheat notes on the finish. No booze heat.
A bit dry & tangy for me, but still flavorful & enjoyable.
Mar 31, 2018
4/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Canned 3/19/18; drank 3/30/18 @ the Yarchives.
Opaque orange/yellow appearance; champagne bubbles throughout.
A rough pour yielded a small white head; minimal lace.
Pineapple, dry wheat & mild cream notes in the nose.
Soft, medium mouthfeel.
Tangy pineapple & faint cream flavors up front; dry wheat notes on the finish. No booze heat.
A bit dry & tangy for me, but still flavorful & enjoyable.
Mar 31, 2018
Wavelength from Bearded Iris Brewing
Beer rating:
92 out of
100 with
41 ratings
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