Suborbital
Bent Water Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

Poured a golden-orange body with two-finger head and lace down the glass. Slightly tropical fruit aroma with some floral and herbal qualities as well. Light to medium body, smooth, tropical fruit sweetness along with something more like tangerine than grapefruit (tangerine listed on can so power of suggestion?); beer finishes easy and clean and is quite enjoyable.

 

Pretty great all around. Similar to elysian space dust with less bitterness/aftertaste

 

 

Pours a hazy yellow with a dense, fluffy head. Aromawise I don't get a lot. Taste - soft, hoppy - like a well broken in pillow. Discernible yeast note in the background, slightly tart lemon accent and a lingering bitterness on the palate. Quite a well done beer I think, I'd definitely buy it again. I also like the sessionable aspect of it

 

Pours lighty cloudy grassy gold color with a 2 finger white head. Looks great. Arkma is surprisingly yeasty with some bright citrus notes, maybe some malt. Flavor has a little sweet with tangerine and nectarine notes over a very pale malt, though there is some bready yeast in the finish. Actually well balanced and very fresh. Feel is lightly soft, very light bitterness and a little crisp if not a touch watery. This is a great beer with full flavor for a session ale. Would get again

 

Can to becher pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking burnt yellow to semi-golden color topped by a rocky foamy white head settling fairly slow but leaving a mild semi-sticky lace all around my glass.
The aroma had a strong citrusy peel bitterness up front with a subtle sweetness about it. Slight pine to clean malt bill underneath.
The flavor leaned towards a sly bitter to stifled sweet citrusy/piney contour, seemed fairly well blended for the most part. Mellow aftertaste of bittersweet lemon peel, pulled lemon peel, biscuits and a subtle yet stiff piney hop bitterness.
The mouthfeel was almost medium bodied but sat just a touch under with a fair sessionability about it. Pretty good carbonation with some dry stickiness. Finishes crisp somewhat with a kind smooth maltiness.
Overall, pretty nice pale ale lingering on the New England sort of style. I'd bang again.

On tap at The Corner Pub in Boston, MA.

This one pours a very hazy golden yellow, with a small head and lots of lacing.

This smells like zesty citrus, grapefruit, mango, grassy and piney hops, and some floral tones too.

This is very light, but flavorful for the lower ABV. There’s a good juicy but simultaneously dry hop flavor, with a touch of pleasant hop bitterness on the back end.

This is light, dry, crisp and clean, with a nice drinkability to it.

This does the session hoppy beer thing pretty well. I enjoyed this.

 

 

 

 

This is a session-strength American Pale Ale, that works at a lighter hoppy offering. A nice end-of-evening offering. I wish it had more of a fruity scent and flavor, more like a light NEIPA like Treehouse's Eureka or Trillium's Small Bird series. This is good, but not as good as the others mentioned.