Jetsetter
Double Nickel Brewing Company

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on October 9, 2019. Brewed with lactose. Double dry-hopped with Eureka and Comet.

Hazy yellow with a finger of white foam. Technically a NE pale ale, but close enough to NEIPA for comparative scale. Smell has fruit o plenty: orange, lemon, tangerine, peach, grapefruit, and a touch of kiwi, hops provide a touch of pine. Taste was sessionable, lighter but packed on flavor. Take everything from the smell and add biscuit like yeast haze, maybe a touch of banana as well, with the citrus carrying the day on the finish with the hops. Feel is hazy, sessionable, creamy, airy, and light.

 

 

A: Pours a very hazy almost murky pale to medium yellow in color with moderate amounts of fine active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate straw yellow + orange + brassy colored highlights. The beer has a three finger tall dense sudsy foamy white head that slowly reduces to a couple of medium sized patches of medium thick film surrounded by a large patch of slightly mottled very thin film covering the remainder of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Slightly heavier than light amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Slightly stronger than moderate aromas of juicy citrus/grapefruit zest, citrus/grapefruit pith, citrus/mandarin orange, stone fruit/peach, and pine hops over the top of light to moderate aromas of biscuit + oat malts with a light amount of lactose sweetness.

T: Upfront there are light to moderate flavors of biscuit + oat malts with a light amount of lactose sweetness. That is followed by slightly stronger than moderate flavors of juicy citrus/grapefruit zest, citrus/grapefruit pith, citrus/mandarin orange, stone fruit/peach, and pine hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which fades away pretty quickly leaving a lingering citrus zest + stone fruit + pine hop flavor.

M: Slightly lighter than medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Slightly crisp initially with a light to moderate amount of soft/fluffiness mid-body and a light amount of dryness in the finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a pleasantly soft/fluffy mouthfeel. Enjoyable though slightly different citrus + stone fruit + pine hop presence.