Bachelor Pad
Twin Sails Brewing

 

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a light to medium golden amber with a fine, two finger white head with good retention and solid lacing. Aroma of pale malt, citrus and tropical fruit hops, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, passion fruit and a hint of pineapple. Flavor is pale malt, citrus and dank hops, orange, grapefruit, lemon, mild mixed tropical fruit, hints of dankness and pine. Nice lingering citrus rind pine and dried tropical fruit hops. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess; oats are evident. An interesting hybrid of West and East Coast hops, combining citrus and pine with the fruitiness of NE hops. Not hazy, and the tropical notes take a back seat to the citrus. The malt is mild and the hop bill is kind of all over the place, but this definitely invited repeated tasting and has a fine lingering hop bitterness. Great change of pace and well done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poured from a 473 ml can.
A: Pours a hazy golden yellow with athick white head and plenty on sticky lacing.
S: Nice tropical fruit hoppy nose.
T: Somewhat sweet and chewy fruity with mild hop finish.
F: A nice malt to hop balance for a double it is pretty smooth.
O: A pretty good double IPA very drinkable but for me it is missing a hop hit. Interesting how we are getting a crossover with the East coast hazy with a West coast hop.

473ml can - nice, simple, and surprisingly cozy label imagery.

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent layered cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, a hard water flintiness, and further leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, a lesser crackery wheatiness, faded domestic citrus peel, some damp minerality, and more zingy leafy, piney, and gently lit-up floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its structurally supportive frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and actually quite smooth, as that oats addition starts paying off dividends here. It finishes off-dry, the malt holding fast against the lingering mixed hop acridity.

Overall - this does come across very much like a blend of west coast and New England style DIPAs, which works just fine for this sports fan. However, while it holds its liquor rather well for an 8.3% brew, there just seems to be a certain lack of pop - hard to explain or quantify, I know.

 

Twin Sails Brewing 'Bachelor Pad' @ 8.3% , served from a 4pack of 473 ml cans purchased for $22
A-pour is a yellow gold from the can to a orange gold in the glass with a small off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-citrus
T-tang on steroids
MF-ok carbonation , full bodied
Ov-the wow factor is missing with this one
prost LampertLand