Tongue Tied
Ocelot Brewing Company

Soft, tropical fruit salad. Smooth and full mouthfeel. Excellent beer

 

 

 

 

 

Look: a very hazy but not turbid amber-orange. A fluffy off-white head stayed for a while.
Aroma: bright orange pith, ripe pineapple, and a fair amount of piney resin.
Taste: the danker notes opened with huge herbal, resiny, piney notes. The citrus followed soon and provided a nice counterpoint. Some grassiness was there but it melded well. A moderate, soft bitterness for the style. Dry, bready and biscuity malt presence.
Feel: a touch heavier than medium, but spot on for 8%. Soft on the palate. Slightly hot on the finish.
Overall: Outstanding! A great mix of herbal and citrus in which the flavors meld really well.

Appearance - Pours hazy orange color with fluffy white head. Sticky lacing all around the glass.

Aroma - Light tropical mango, pineapple and orange. There is also a light hop/pine aroma as well.

Taste - The flavors follow the nose closely mango, orange, grapefruit. The hops stand out more in the taste where the nose was pretty balanced maybe even sweet fruit leaning the taste is a little more hop leaning. I like the strong hop bite right at the end.

Feel - Medium bodied prickly carbonation slightly dry finish but not overly bitter.

Overall - This was my first beer from this brewery and it is very well done. A very nicely balanced beer, some of these tropical IPAs go strong on fruit and have no hops this one has a nice hop bite which I like. Best of both worlds.

Poured a light orange cloudy body with decent head and lace. Cat pee acidic orange juice like aroma with light grapefruit/tropical fruit sweetness mixed with a bitter sharpness for good balance and is easy to drink w/ a clean finish.

 

Super juicy!

32oz crowler poured into an over-sized wine glass from Veil

L - Medium-dark haze orange with nice little amount of head that leaves a nice layer of froth
S - Passionfruit, melon and pineapple
T - Semi-sweet tropical flavors with a woody/grassy kind of palate to compliment them
F - Incredibly restrained bitterness and well-balanced flavor

One of my recent favorites from Ocelot, no doubt.

On tap at brewery:
Pours a light-blocking hazy dull orange. The head is decent, but fades to a medium thin ring that does give my glass a little lacing.

Nose is tempered passionfruit, melon, and mango/pineapple in the fruity side. There's a spicy evergreen note that acts against this smelling overly juicy.

Taste has a light bite to it - but the juice easily overcomes this up front. Not quite tart enough to bring a full passionfruit flavor to bear, but maybe if it were cut with a peach/orange juice (little heavier on the former). The hops only balance things, with a light wooden spruce to reedy grass flavor appearing mid to late taste. There's a little spiciness in the back end.

A nice, fairly juicy DIPA that I wavered between quite enjoying and finding a little too juicy.