Stairway
Ocelot Brewing Company

 

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The beer pours a very nice white and creamy head that dissipates fairly quickly. The beer itself is a cloudy pale orange mixed with yellow. It's a pretty good look.

The smell is good. It consists of a good mixture of pineapple, light grapefruit and pine in the finish; all of them as a soft hop note. There is also a soft sweet alcohol note as well.

The taste is good with a bit more bitterness to it than the smell. It still has that soft malt and alcohol sweetness to it along with a bit of pineapple. There seems to be a bit more grapefruit in the taste though.

The feel is good. It has a heavy and slippery body with very tiny and soft carbonation to it.

Overall, a good beer even if it is a bit sweet with a more subtle bitterness to it.

 

 

Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass.

Opaque body appearance, with a muted orange color, and faint touches of lemon like yellow and not turbid. Head creation is minimal. Barely a finger of white head, that dissolves relatively slowly, but leaves some good sheet and ring like lace, and a good sized collar.

Soft bodied hop aroma, mixing with classic chewy sensing soft malts and sweetness. Sweet green herbs with a faint touch of tropical quality, perhaps a little pineapple squeaking out. A bit different, but solid.

Palate is large. Thick rich bodied but flirts with syrupy sweetness that seems to enhance the alcohol like kick. Touches with a good hop varietal mix, pineapple, quite a bit of tangerine orange, and a hop angle that gets into minty herbs. Boozy finish though, with a long alcohol pit warming kick in the stomach, but at least controlled.

Large brew, but doesn't quite make for a great beer unfortunately.