Needy³
The Veil Brewing Co. - Production Brewery

 

 

16oz can. Date stamp on can bottom is '02/03/23'.
Hazy, pale gold colored body. One finger of white head, which reduces to islands and a thick ring. Leaves behind rings and regular spots of lacing.
Aroma is orange, tangerine, and peach.
Taste is orange, tangerine, mango, melon, peach, and apricot. Big hop flavors with some woodiness and bitterness at the end.
Fuller mouth feel. Lots of hop woodiness. Good carbonation.
Dense with flavor, with a thicker body. Slightly sweet but finishes with definite hop bitterness.

We all have those extra needy days. Some days its attention, other days its pizza, but then there's those times when we might nee alcoholic Tang. And that's what Veil Brewing Co. is there for. Triple dry-hopped with the most citrusy cones that they could find, this beer is all orange and a booze.

Golden orange and foggy with a heavy haze, Needy3 immediately swoons the nose with a high level of Valencia oranges, tangerine and blood orange, all backed with complementary citrus, tropical and stone fruits for a full fruit cocktail perfume. As its cereal-sweet flavors and textures wrap smoothly around the tongue, there's a cream sensation of shortbread, honey and agave to round out the early palate.

Then the hops simply blossom on the middle palate, showing a taste of all-things-orange in a ripe, rife and pulpy kind of way. Help from the additional citrus flavors of red grapefruit and lemon, and then the tropical complement of mango, apricot and peach, this beer starts to become alcoholic sherbet. Trending smoothly bitter, the late palate trends herbal with tea, spruce, lemon pepper, grassy herbs and a tinge of cannabis.

Medium bodied and seemingly full from the persistence of cereal malts, the ale eventually achieves malty-dry status with a bitter-sweetness that sides slightly with the bitter side of taste. A medium length linger of orange a mild alcohol spice steers the session into a blue curacao cocktail direction.

Very deep orange in color. Head was easily thick and bright white. Nose is full on citrus. Taste is also citrus with a piney hint. Mouth feel was soft. Backend was really bitter, in a great way!.