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River Roost Brewery

Drinking out of a large snifter.
Pours a very hazy light orange with a full frothy head.
Smells like tropical fruit.
Thick mouth feel.
Tastes of oranges, tangerines.

 

 

Poured into a 13 oz tulip glass not sure when it was canned. Pours an attractive hazy orange with a two finger sticky white head that leaves thick streaks of lace with nice retention. 4.25

Aroma is cantaloupe, mandarin, white grape, apricot, and grapefruit rind. 3.75

Taste follows the grape jumps out first, mandarin, cantaloupe, apricot, and grapefruit. 3.5

Mouthfeel is about average, nice amount of life, maybe a tad dry, and at 8.2% the flavor is making it difficult to drink. 3.75

Overall the hops is just Citra and Nelson, but I think they may have tried equal amounts, because the Nelson is not working in this one. 3.5

Top shelf from an outstanding, and possibly underrated, brewer

 

Opaque dark maize with a thick white head leaving wobbly lace as it settles.

Smoothly fluffy and sweetly orangey with mild accents of peppery nelson before a verdantly bitter finish, though softened by a hint of vanilla dolloped shortbread.

The semi-dry yet almost wet finish comes via a medium-full body.

 

Looks like a glass of hazy juice. Nice smell of citra hops, tropical, dank. Taste is juicy citrus hops and tingly spicy finish. Great flavor that lingers too. Really good brew.

Pours a yellowy golden. Some white wine and guava on the nose. Those fruits are really the story hear, it's slightly boozy, not particularly bitter. It's got some dankness to it.

 

Excellent beer! Look is of stream dark yellow haziness similar to unfiltered honey. The smell is somewhat sweet but reserved. The taste is what make the beer! It rolls into the mouth like juice with a great aftertaste. Smooth and great balance. Feels like a great smoothie with just the right mix of flavors. This beer is heading to a world class level.

From a 16oz can, undated… undated? seriously, Mark? You stopped dating your cans when you started sending them out to retail? What a shitty move. Whatever. Served in a River Roost-branded IPA glass, grumbling all the while.

Pours a dark and dull, opaque orange with a finger-plus of suds. Retention is unremarkable, leaving a creamy collar and a tattered curtain of bubbly lacing,

Nose is distantly sweet and faintly fruity. Not much going on aroma-wise but maybe orange slices, I suppose, if I really get my nose down into the glass and work at it.

Tasting honeydew melon, watermelon, lime, sweet orange and gooseberry. (I’m not sure how he got such intense melon expression out of citra and nelson, but that’s principally what I’m picking up on in the flavour profile). Starts out all sweet and juicy and with minimal bitterness, and finishes with some dryness and mild acidity, like a riesling.

Feel is clean and juicy, medium bodied with bright carbonation making it feel even a little lighter. A very minor, white wine-like sour booziness lingers in the gullet - doesn’t really detract, just sort of emphasizes the nelson character.

Overall, a thoroughly enjoyable, quaffable beverage, doubly so since I normally dislike nelson rather emphatically and the nelson was so pronounced here. There is no sense at all of this being a double and, in fact, if drinking blind which, to all intents and purposes, you are, since the abv doesn’t appear to be printed on the can either, I’d have pegged this at maybe 6%. But I’m still marking the overall down 0.5 for the undated cans because that really pisses me off.