Emerald Showers - Double Dry Hopped
Civil Society Brewing

 

 

 

murky orange brown medium headness. smells like papaya apricot and tutti frutti like candied cherry and pineapple and some kind of fruity childrens medicine from my youth. lively carbonation but a full mouthfeel. tastes like grapefruit peel or licking xanax. after the bitterness subsides i'm feeling some rotten papaya notes . but fuck man i'm drinking this like can this be right? gonna let it sit for 10... less intense but still weirdly bitter the good smell also vanished

 

Not good. Grassy and sweet Off flavors and pure bitterness on the back end.

 

Hazy yellow Amber color with a bone white head and substantial lacing. Sweet citrus nose with orange predominating. Smells absolutely divine. Unfortunately the taste does not follow suit. Somewhat dry with a little bit of melon or pear in the middle but it is followed by an ultra bitter finish. If you are a hop head you will probably love. I think it throws the beer out of whack. Everything up until that bitter bite is a building snowball of goodness that just falls off a bitter cliff. The feel is light with a light amount of carbonation but the bitterness of this beer makes it seem thicker than it is. Overall the beer just suffers from a lack of balance as it finishes off way too bitter. May be pleasant to some but not to me.

 

 

Poured from a 16oz can into a Civil Society pint glass. Mildly cloudy golden hue with a loosely packed had and receded to a ring around the glass and left a few spots of lacing. Aroma is a lot of blueberries, mangoes, and grass. Taste is sweet berries on the front of the tongue and a long grassy bitterness on the middle and end of the palette. Mouthfeel is light, crisp, and dry. Very good low ABV IPA.

 

 

On tap at the brewery. Orange body with a little haze. Smells of grassy hops and diacetyl. I wasn’t sure from the nose when it was cold, but as it warmed, definitely started to get diacetyl. The taste, as a result, is almost all diacetyl to me. Some grassy hops and caramel sweetness. Has a pretty aggressive bitterness. But the diacetyl ruins it for me. Medium body. Bummer.