Black Cat Sees All - Double Dry-Hopped
Long Live Beerworks

 

This one pours a murk bomb hazy with a creamy dense head. Glorious over-ripe tropical fruit aroma. Taste is a little hoppy “hot” but very enjoyable. Full lush mouthfeel with very light carbonation. Overall, another well made NEIPA!

16oz can from Tavour. Hazy yellow pour, two finger fluffy white head, lacing. Citrusy aroma, grapefruit peel. Taste mellows a bit, fruity, citrus, pomelo, light zest at the back. Lingers for a bit, then clean.

 

 

 

 

 

16oz. Can served in a Spiegelau tulip. Pours the color of orange juice with a turbid clarity and a tight, quarter-inch, beige-colored head embedded with ringlets and pinpricks. Nose is somewhat akin to an Orange Julius with some light herbal notes in the background. Taste reveals a more aggressive herbal presence, with the citrus/topical fruit character muddled behind. There’s also a trace of something peppery/smoky in the mix. Mouthfeel is light-medium in body with a pleasant, even carbonation and a kiss of oiliness to the texture. Overall, a solid offering; however, I prefer the two DIPAs on their own, as opposed to this mash-up.

 

Canned on 11/12/21; consumed on 12/5/21

Pours a turbid, milky sunflower-gold body capped with a finger and a half of fluffy, densely soapy white foam; great head retention leaves a half-finger of creamy cap, a moderate, frothy collar, and firm, webby layers of mostly uniform lacing encircling the walls of the glass.

Aroma bursts with key lime and mandarin accents upfront, with tinges of tropical cream developing over the middle to a pulpy pineapple and underripe guava close.

Taste opens with soft undertones of banana peel into brighter key lime and a flaky biscuit malt backing toward the mid-palate, where grassy resins contrast underripe pineapple, apple core, guava, and hints of white grape on a dank and fruit amalgam of a finish.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body with a fluffy, moderate-full carbonation, expanding to twangy resins and a subsequent pillowy grit over the mid-palate; juicy, dank textures maintain into the back end, trending toward bitterness that never expands beyond a wispy prickle through the finish.

With a body synchronized to the waves of spiking resins and hop textures, this proves another eclectic hop combo from Long Live, yielding an intense, shifty dynamic of almost confoundingly juicy and dank fruit prominence.