Subject Eight
Civil Society Brewing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

32 oz. crowler. Pours cloudy orange without much of a head. Smells of enormous tropical fruit. Mango, pineapple. Smells sweet and a little boozy. Tastes of mango, too. Sweet mangos. Sweet pale malt. Boozy and a touch astringent. Low carbonation. Medium heavy. Boozy, but it has none of the pitfalls of recent CS beers. Very tasty.

On tap at the CSBC taproom. Cloudy grapefruit juice appearance with minimal head that quickly disappated and left no lacing. Aroma is ripe mangos and slight earthy notes. Taste is mango and orange juice with a mild bitter finish. Taste gets better as the beer warms. Mouthfeel is chewy and thick like orange juice. Interesting DIPA that falls a little flat. It lacks the dankness of Subject Seven, but it's unbelievably easy drinking with little to no evidence of the 8.7% ABV. You could probably pass this off to the unknowing as 100% fruit juice. This beer really opens up as it warms.