Jealous Again
Foam Brewers

 

 

Poured into a tulip, the appearance was a burnt semi-thick orange color rimmed with a finger’s worth of foamy white head. Slow dissipation, some soft stringy lace. The aroma had some vanilla, orange pulp, light lemon zest, earthy to grassy hops and a little bit of some papaya. The flavor leaned into the sweet parts of this beer pulling the citrus in to play with the vanilla in a semi-biscuit/cake-like arrangement. Light aftertaste in the same manner. Sly slick sweet finish. The feel was about medium bodied with a touch of the cake/vanilla edged smoothness pulling down the abrasiveness of the bitterness that is there. ABV felt spot on. Overall, very nice AIPA that I would have again.

From a 750ml growler, filled 04/28/17. Served in a spiegelau.

Pours a mildly hazed, reddish-gold with a finger-and-a-half of cream coloured, bubbly head. Moderately good retention and a curtain of slippery lacing.

Smells of boozy yeast, orange rinds and birthday cake.

Taste is sharp and tangy, a tropical melange of lemon, grapefruit* and pineapple, orange and papaya with caramel and a solid biscuity base. A little resinous pine toward the end, finishing with mouth-coating hop-oily pine and orange.

*Edited to add: I've gone back and read the brewer's notes and, apparently, I'm supposed to have tasted white grapefruit and mango. I added 'grapefruit' because, now that I know I'm supposed to taste it, I guess I can. But I'm definitely not finding the mango. Sorry.

Feel is soft, creamy and slick, medium-plus bodied with fine carbonation and some pleasantly boozy warmth.

Overall, a finely-crafted and tasty beverage. It's hard to fit this into the pedigree of American IPA's; despite the heavy-handed aromatic hopping, it's not one of your messy, murky, modern NE-style IPA's and it's definitely not west coast - it's like a throw-back to old Heady or Sip, isolated when the continents drifted apart and following its own evolutionary path. It may be a new species.