blinkbugatti
The Veil Brewing Co. - Production Brewery
- From:
- The Veil Brewing Co. - Production Brewery
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.52 | pDev: 12.5%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 28, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 20, 2021
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Reviewed by Beer_Economicus from Ohio
3.03/5 rDev -13.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2
3.03/5 rDev -13.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2
Today is a new beer to me.
The Veil – Blink Bugatti
11% ABV
The beer is listed as a Tripple IPA on the label – and listed as “IPA - Imperial” on BA.
The beer was removed from a 40ish degree temp fridge after having been refrigerated for approximately 3.5 weeks. Beer poured into willi belcher.
First Impression: Pretty, but nothing too tantalizing. As the first portion of head faded, the lacing was also quite pretty, but not pretty by true lacing beauty standards. Color is a bit more burnt orange-brown than what I’d prefer if given my druthers. Often, this color tends to suggest more bitter and pine than I’d prefer. 3.75
Appearance: Nothing to write home about. You can tell it doesn’t have as much suspended as, say, a treehouse brew would. As noted above, color is a bit more burnt orange-brown than I’d prefer. It doesn’t have that beautiful look of yellow-orange homogenized fluffy clouds that makes all us beer geeks blow over. 3.5
Smell: Surprisingly, not as fragrant as many IPAs. Have to get into it pretty hard to really get much of anything. Perhaps strange, but getting a lot of bitter notes with what smells like “wet” hops. I don’t know what wet hops smell like, but I know what hops smell like. Now make them wet. Same concept as other ‘wet’ items in our life. An ever so slightly small amount of pine. From the can, more orange-pineapple. 3.5
Taste: Much to my chagrin, especially for it costing something like $10-12, I hate this. Nothing unpalatable on the sip, but after the swallow the bitterness gets aggressive, and there’s a real strong dank-pine, resinous, pithy, ultra bitter flavor walloping me. It’s dominating anything and everything else. Perhaps this is a bit malty – I’m not great at identifying malts in IPAs. It also comes off a bit like ‘dirt’, with a very unpleasant ‘dirty’ quality (see mouthfeel). This is probably just me, but rating it for my feelings. 3.15
Mouthfeel: Not pillowy, soft, or light. It’s more like a single IPA with a bit of drying. It also seems to stay on my tongue the way that an astringent oakiness would from an overoaked bourbon. Leaves my mouth feeling ‘dirty’ like I need it cleaned. 2.85
Overall: Hate it. Not beating around the bushes. This also doesn’t strike me entirely as being ‘my fault’, but maybe it really is just my palate. There’s only 1 BA rating, and no BA reviews (I have added the first). I liked the only other TIPA I had from Veil (same Bugatti series), so I’m ultra let down by this. To me, there’s just no redeeming qualities. This is a straight up drainpour. It’s not so bad that it is undrinkable, but (1) I’m not willing to waste my night forcing it, and (2) I don’t want (or enjoy) challenges like this. The only potential fault of mine is that Veil, stupidly, doesn’t date their cans. I purchased this from a store that I believe had it fresh, but I don’t know if at this point (from when I purchased it) I am at approx.. 1 month from canning, 2 months, longer? 2.0
BA Review Score: 2.995
Nov 01, 2021The Veil – Blink Bugatti
11% ABV
The beer is listed as a Tripple IPA on the label – and listed as “IPA - Imperial” on BA.
The beer was removed from a 40ish degree temp fridge after having been refrigerated for approximately 3.5 weeks. Beer poured into willi belcher.
First Impression: Pretty, but nothing too tantalizing. As the first portion of head faded, the lacing was also quite pretty, but not pretty by true lacing beauty standards. Color is a bit more burnt orange-brown than what I’d prefer if given my druthers. Often, this color tends to suggest more bitter and pine than I’d prefer. 3.75
Appearance: Nothing to write home about. You can tell it doesn’t have as much suspended as, say, a treehouse brew would. As noted above, color is a bit more burnt orange-brown than I’d prefer. It doesn’t have that beautiful look of yellow-orange homogenized fluffy clouds that makes all us beer geeks blow over. 3.5
Smell: Surprisingly, not as fragrant as many IPAs. Have to get into it pretty hard to really get much of anything. Perhaps strange, but getting a lot of bitter notes with what smells like “wet” hops. I don’t know what wet hops smell like, but I know what hops smell like. Now make them wet. Same concept as other ‘wet’ items in our life. An ever so slightly small amount of pine. From the can, more orange-pineapple. 3.5
Taste: Much to my chagrin, especially for it costing something like $10-12, I hate this. Nothing unpalatable on the sip, but after the swallow the bitterness gets aggressive, and there’s a real strong dank-pine, resinous, pithy, ultra bitter flavor walloping me. It’s dominating anything and everything else. Perhaps this is a bit malty – I’m not great at identifying malts in IPAs. It also comes off a bit like ‘dirt’, with a very unpleasant ‘dirty’ quality (see mouthfeel). This is probably just me, but rating it for my feelings. 3.15
Mouthfeel: Not pillowy, soft, or light. It’s more like a single IPA with a bit of drying. It also seems to stay on my tongue the way that an astringent oakiness would from an overoaked bourbon. Leaves my mouth feeling ‘dirty’ like I need it cleaned. 2.85
Overall: Hate it. Not beating around the bushes. This also doesn’t strike me entirely as being ‘my fault’, but maybe it really is just my palate. There’s only 1 BA rating, and no BA reviews (I have added the first). I liked the only other TIPA I had from Veil (same Bugatti series), so I’m ultra let down by this. To me, there’s just no redeeming qualities. This is a straight up drainpour. It’s not so bad that it is undrinkable, but (1) I’m not willing to waste my night forcing it, and (2) I don’t want (or enjoy) challenges like this. The only potential fault of mine is that Veil, stupidly, doesn’t date their cans. I purchased this from a store that I believe had it fresh, but I don’t know if at this point (from when I purchased it) I am at approx.. 1 month from canning, 2 months, longer? 2.0
BA Review Score: 2.995
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