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The Veil Brewing Co. - Production Brewery

 

 

 

Canned 5 weeks ago. Attractive golden orange in the glass with a moderate off-white head. Aromas and flavors are grassier than expected, with some mild citrus and melon character to round things out. Soft mouthfeel and easy drinking. The lowest ABV
"quadruple dry hopped" IPA I've had

73/100

16 oz. can dated 2024 ?

Murky gold color; one finger varied white head. Spotty lacing with surface continents. No floaties, a tablespoon of yeast precipitate.

Great piney grapefruit aroma that lasts.
Tons of bitter citrus, pine, white pepper, pineapple flavors.
Zesty hops up front and in the aftertaste.
A NEIPA that you can enjoy in quantity.

 

Acquired in a trade/proxy arrangement with @turkeysdrinkbeer in August 2022.

This one has travelled across the continental US landmass, over the Pacific Ocean and down the Australian east coast to arrive in my glass. I was planning to drink it on the weekend, and I got to Thursday night and couldn't wait any longer!

Pours a smouldering dark orangey-yellow, like I'd freshly pulped a banana and mixed it with a glass of orange and pineapple juice. Look up hazy double IPA in the dictionary and you'll see this beer.

The nose is a tropical cocktail of orange, passionfruit, grapefruit and mango. There's sweet malt evident and a hoppy, yeasty kick to the smell. I can tell there's going to be some hop burn to this one, and the key is whether the rest of the beer can balance that out. Spoiler: it sort of did.

The taste is dank, resinous, bitter tropical fruit. That hoppy kick/diesely hop burn jumps out of the glass, but the stronger, more bitter fruit notes of grapefruit and orange peel and the sweet malt base balance it out. There's a definite hop burn there, but it feels like it belongs in the beer. It adds to the flavour rather than detracts, but ultimately impacts the mouthfeel...

... and that's because that diesely hop kick makes itself felt in the mouth and on the way down. The beer is 5.5% so it's presumably not the alcohol building that warmth, but it feels like I'm drinking a much stronger beer than what I am actually drinking, and I noticed about halfway down the beer that my tongue was feeling a little numbed by the sensation. I've marked things down accordingly in the feel and overall category as a result.

Overall, I really like this beer but the hop burn, in the end, detracts from the overall experience and leads to the beer dropping marks. If the aroma, look and taste could be achieved without that one flaw, it'd be an awesome beer.

Cheers!

 

 

Can from Sprayberry August 2021