Space Armadillo
Twin Sails Brewing

2021 version 8.1% ABV, 45 IBU.
Hazy orange peach colour with 2+ fingers bubbly slightly off white head.
Aroma of hoppy citrus, peach, berry note, hit of pine on a cereal malt base.
Tastes of sweet grainy malt - fruity - peach, berry, tropical fruit - slightly floral; soft citrus bitterness.
Creamy medium full mouthfeel on moderate carbonation - easy drinking 8.1% masquerading as a fruity sweet lower ABV ipa.

 

 

473ml can - I think my kindergarten-aged son would get a bigger kick out of this label than I do.

This beer pours a clear, medium golden amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves a bit of streaky flock of seagulls pattern lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates.

It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery cereal malt, blood orange and lemon citrus peel, some blended melon fruity esters, a damp minerality, and more leafy, floral, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and fairly smooth, with a minor airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and mixed frooty esters in a lingering two-step of sorts.

Overall - well, this is certainly a pleasant enough offering, full of flavour, and considering the expertly concealed 16-proof booze quotient, dangerously easy to drink. But not if you're just looking outside at yet another cold and snowy mid-winter day, one might surmise.

 

Twin Sails Brewing 'Space Armadillo' DIPA @ 8.0% , served from a 4pack of 473 ml cans
A-pour is a yellow gold from the can to a hazy yellow gold in the glass with a large size white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint/tulip
S-sacc trois
T-fruit bomb + sacc trois , not my favourite taste when it comes to a DIPA ,
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-not my favourite (NE) DIPA , ok beer thou
prost LampertLand

Poured from a 473ml can. 6% ABV ,60 IBU. Canned on 03/01/2018
A: Pours a clear golden with a very thin white head and minor lacing.
S: A floral hop nose bomb as soon as i cracked the can i god smell it feet away.
T: Wonderful fruity hop hit very tasty.
F: Great balance with a clean crisp finish.
O: For a DIPA these go down way to fast.

 

 

 

IIPAs are not a style I usually get into. Too boozy for my tastes. However if a brewer is able to find that balance between hoppy/boozy/malty, I get hooked. A good example for me is Puff from Sixpoint. This is another!

Poured nice n hazy in to a tulip. Punchy smell woke me up with boozy, floral aromas.

Was hesitant cause I know this style typically has an almost salty-like booziness that really turns me off. But this brew just brought the goodness. Taste was orange and pineapple with a bit of bitter, boozy but not salty. Well done indeed. Not sure how they did it but this small brewery is killing the style when most of the big boys around here are just putting out unbalanced booze bombs.

One of the best IIPAs I've ever had.