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River Roost Brewery

 

Had on tap. A beautifully hazy and foamy appearance, serving as a foreshadowing for things to come. The smell is full of tropical fruit, with supporting citrus, hop spice, and biscuit malt backbone. Taste was phenomenal, bringing in every tropical fruit I could think of, but blended ever so nicely. Feel is spot of hazy dipa, with bitter hops and sweet fruit puckering up the mouth and then brining crisp refreshment. A masterpiece

 

From a 32oz screw-top growler, filled at the brewery 26 hours ago. Served in an imperial pint pub glass.

Pours the colour and apparent consistency of slightly oxidized pulp-free orange juice with a scant half-finger of ivory suds. Retention not worth speaking about but leaves a semi-solid sheet of thin lacing. Ugly as sin, just the way I like 'em.
(Edit: 2nd pour was HARD and made a much more satisfactory head).

Smells of biscuits, bitter orange marmalade and bhang water. Maybe a little solvent.

I don't know my exotic kiwi-papaya-guava-sort of tropical fruits so good but it tastes like your more esoteric-type tropical fruit, not the usual citrus-pineapple-melon thing. That, and grapefruit-infused bhang water. Nicely bitter, juicy and dank.

Feel is full and juicy, a touch oily, medium bodied-and-a-bit, with nice carbonation.

Nice. Looks like crap, smells OK, tastes fucking awesome. I can't help thinking there's something in here which either is or had ought to be on somebody's controlled substances list.