Juicy Tube
Studio Brew

 

Pretty looking beer blackberry ting, loads of lace from bar pour white head. Aroma is IPA with blackberry under neath. Taste is like the nose fruity, lightly sweet moves to bitter hops and the blackberry adds a little tart like kick that fades to lingering hop resin. Mouthfeel is medium with lightly peppy carbonation. Overall came to try this one, like blackberry mmm. This is well done and enjoyable like the sweet then hops and slight. Note this was a special blackberry version of Juicy Tube.

 

I'm new to NEIPAs, so I didn't know what to expect.

Look: It's supposed to be unfiltered but it doesn't look as hazy as a hefe. It has the look of a heavily filtered "lite" beer, though with a very mild haze. Overall color is light straw.

Smell: metallic, very light peach odor. It's not fragrant. It's almost as if its smell is deceptively secretive.

Taste: I'll put this out there—I'm not a huge IPA fan because they're usually so one-note. This one is delightful. The hop bitterness is there, along with just a hint of the hard water taste of an ESB. However, where a run-of-the-mill IPA overwhelms the drinker with one fat bitter note, this one is perplexing. It has a steady mineral bitterness with a fruity taste that makes itself most evident in the fragrance while it's in your mouth. It's a bit like bitter melon or under-ripe peach, but not unpleasant at all.

Mouth feel: A very slight pepper/peppermint FEEL. There's no pepper or peppermint taste, but it has that spikey feeling without being overpowering like an over-carbonated Belgian.

Overall: 4.75. We almost got a growler of this. The main reason we didn't was that the Tropical Sunset is even more surprisingly good for an IPA.