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Hudson Valley Brewery

 

 

 

Pours a very hazy pinkish/orange color with a big fluffy head. Tropical fruit on the nose particularly grapefruit and tangerine. Taste is outstanding! The sweetness, tartness and bitterness of grapefruit is pronounced and is really the main driver of the flavor along with a floral taste. Brilliantly balaced....one of the best sour IPAs that I've had.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't give out 5s that often, but I found this to be not only an exceptional example of its style, but the apex thereof. Grapefruit and a bit of funk predominate in the best way. I had to resist guzzling this, it was so crushable. My first Hudson Valley experience, but it won't be my last.

 

 

This beer is insane. The apotheosis of HVB achievements and the style they’ve essentially created and mastered (sour lactose laden blended hoppy beer with fruit purée). Just explosively flavorful and at the same time beautifully balanced. Not gimmicky at all, just a tremendously drinkable and appealing beer. Paired this with handmade Shanghai dumplings and noodle dishes and the moderate sourness and fruit sweetness, with the subtle hop bitterness in the finish, cleansed the palette and held its own against another tremendously flavorful offfering. Wow.

Really great beer. Perfect hazy look, tight pearl head. Smell is sweet grapefruit and spices. Taste is wonderful grapefruit, hint of honey, with a creamy mouthfeel and a citrus twang on the finish that is awesome.

Edit: I'm even jumping back in here to say that with further inspection (drank four now) I truly think this is my favorite fruited beer of all time. The grapefruit is perfectly sour with the light hoppiness and the honey adds the perfect tinge of sweetness and decadence in the body and mouthfeel. An absolutely absurdly good beer.