Wavy Days
Mast Landing Brewing Company

 

From a 16oz can, dated 10/21/20. Served in a Mast Landing-branded willi becher glass - because proper glassware.

Pours an opaque, glowing, vividly-almost-fake-orange with a big three finger-plus pouffy, lathery cap. Retention is excellent, leaving a thick foam insulation cap and a complex webbery of sticky lacing.

Nose is malty with a whiff of creamsicle and strawberry.

Taste is largely in line with the nose, dense and malt forward. Orange juice, orange pith, candied pineapple, strawberry, leafy green herb. Low bitterness but finishing with a drying, oily orange peel.

Feel is smooth, juicy, medium-thick bodied with fine, gentle carbonation and a boozy warmth in the gullet.

Overall, a decent but overly sweet to my taste, malt-forward, fruity IPA. Just as a side note, it’s always entertaining reading the brewer’s description after drinking the beer - here I’m promised grapefruit, melon and sweet pine, none of which, with the best will in the world, I can remotely begin to pick up on.

 

 

 

 

 

Can date: 5-21-20 Nice can art - modern, graduated "wavy" hockey sticks of color depicting a setting sun over water.
The color is an all too typical brushed suede tan, murky thick looking liquid below a beauty of a creamy and cream hued head that persisted after the slump, leaving blotchy lacing behind.
Aromas of grapefruit and sugar coated pineapple - not a juicy blast but a distinct fruit nose and not a lot else.
I snuff some more .... yup just citrus and dried, sugar coated pineapple and very little telling me this is beer.
Flavor is what the nose implied. Sugared pineapple and grapefruit - and beer! It's a more interesting flavor profile than many of the "hazy" ilk, more subtle spoon fulls of fruit, less squish a tangerine in your face.
Sugar sweet, light bodied malt carry the fruity hop flavors over the tongue where they fall off a cliff, leaving a here to fore hidden bitterness fight it's way through, No transition just sweet to dry like that! ( snaps fingers)
Dry, acidic, bitter arugula like bite finishes it out abruptly leaving a salad greens and black pepper aftertaste.
No cookie cutter NEIPA here - which is a good thing. An interesting take on the style, soft in it's IPAness with unique hop choices.

 

Can. One of those beers you don't expect to be really turbid as it pours but once it settles it's ass in the glass, you realize how thick looking it is. Aroma is very much a song that has been sung before. Wet melon, wet citrus, overripe fruit medley. Smells like theres creamer in there too. Orange Creme Saver candy. Flavor is also pretty straightforward for a New England IPA. The orange sherbet/creamsicle element is really ramped up here, though. There is a bit of cutting green hoppiness to round out the flavor after the citrus n' cream wears off. Softer carbonation. Decent beer, but it's not one that stands out as an impressive, cresting wave in the bloated sea of hazy beer.

 

"Batch #2" on bottom of can. Pours lightly couby rich yellow gold with a 2 finger off-white soapy head. Nose is pungent with stone fruit and acidic orange, with a touch of alcohol in there too. Strong smelling stuff for sure. The taste Is a bit more mellow but full of flavor. Starts off with a vaguely citrus hop that is rich. Mid taste becomes mellow with some pale malt suggesting body but quickly dissipates into an oddly watery feel. The finish has a noticeable burn to it. Bitterness is light to moderate.

This one is an odd duck and I kind of like it. Bold and clearly DDH'd, it leaves a strong impression. Off wateriness at times but everything else makes up for it.