Side Daddy
Aslin Beer Company
- From:
- Aslin Beer Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 6.93%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 04, 2018
- Added:
- Aug 28, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
Side Daddy, our collab with Cold Creek Brewery, is a DIPA fermented on our house yeast and dry-hopped with Citra & the New Zealand hop Rakau. The result is a soft beer with notes of peach, mango, tangerine, pine, & cotton candy.
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Reviewed by bobv from Vermont
3.99/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Moderate to vigorous pour yields a one inch white head over a hazy golden body with sticky lacing. Another orange juice bomb with nose of all types of citrus. Taste mirrors nose with a seriously dry, fairly bitter finish which isn't really anticipated by the fruity nose and front end on the palate. Fairly good feel and overall pretty nice.
Oct 02, 2017
Reviewed by Wasatch from Colorado
4.5/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Thanks goes out to cjgiant for this brew.
16 oz. Can
Canned On: 08/22/17
14 Days Old!
Poured into a Tired Hands pint glass a really nice cloudy yellow/orangy color, very nice carbonation, with a very nice thick/creamy two-finger white head, which also leaves some pretty nice creamy sticky lacing behind. The nose is hoppy, malty, with a pretty nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, pineapple, mango), nice little diesel like. The taste is really nice, hoppy, malty, with a pretty nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, pineapple, mango), with some nice diesel like. Medium body, ABV hidden pretty well. with a nice dry/bitter finish. Overall, a really nice brew. Addictive! Orange Julius! Glad to have gotten a chance to try this one. Thanks Craig!
Sep 06, 201716 oz. Can
Canned On: 08/22/17
14 Days Old!
Poured into a Tired Hands pint glass a really nice cloudy yellow/orangy color, very nice carbonation, with a very nice thick/creamy two-finger white head, which also leaves some pretty nice creamy sticky lacing behind. The nose is hoppy, malty, with a pretty nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, pineapple, mango), nice little diesel like. The taste is really nice, hoppy, malty, with a pretty nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, pineapple, mango), with some nice diesel like. Medium body, ABV hidden pretty well. with a nice dry/bitter finish. Overall, a really nice brew. Addictive! Orange Julius! Glad to have gotten a chance to try this one. Thanks Craig!
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
4.31/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.31/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Can dated 8/22:
Pours a lighter pale yellow cloud, with a creamy ring of white bubbles that lasts and throws a few spots on the glass.
Nose is pineapple, guava, grapefruit/orange juice. There's a little bite to the light hops - not necessarily spicy, more like overripe fruit with perhaps a little help from the DIPA 8.5%. A little pine aspect becomes a bit more obvious with warmth.
Taste opens juicy, but with a thinner, slightly watered down juice feel. This is not as bad as it may sound, given I am comparing to other thicker NE IPAs. The feel is still medium easily. The bitterness of pineapple skin and subsequent pine branch is actually welcome to my palate. This might not be quite as juicy as the nose indicates, but it has a decent little IPA bitterness. Funny thing is, with this beer, an orange/ruby grapefruit juice taste returns in back for a brief moment.
For a truly cloudy NE IPA, the look is probably a little higher and the feel is probably a little lower. I like a little bit of classic bitterness in my IPAs, so I can forgive the feel for the still fairly tame but actually noticeable bitterness in back.
Sep 01, 2017Pours a lighter pale yellow cloud, with a creamy ring of white bubbles that lasts and throws a few spots on the glass.
Nose is pineapple, guava, grapefruit/orange juice. There's a little bite to the light hops - not necessarily spicy, more like overripe fruit with perhaps a little help from the DIPA 8.5%. A little pine aspect becomes a bit more obvious with warmth.
Taste opens juicy, but with a thinner, slightly watered down juice feel. This is not as bad as it may sound, given I am comparing to other thicker NE IPAs. The feel is still medium easily. The bitterness of pineapple skin and subsequent pine branch is actually welcome to my palate. This might not be quite as juicy as the nose indicates, but it has a decent little IPA bitterness. Funny thing is, with this beer, an orange/ruby grapefruit juice taste returns in back for a brief moment.
For a truly cloudy NE IPA, the look is probably a little higher and the feel is probably a little lower. I like a little bit of classic bitterness in my IPAs, so I can forgive the feel for the still fairly tame but actually noticeable bitterness in back.
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