Double Vision IPA
Pipe Dream Brewing

 

Poured into a 16 oz Nordic pint glass not sure when it was canned. Pours a cloudy dark orange with a 2 finger sticky white head that leaves a thick layer of lace behind as it slowly settles.

Smell is mandarin orange, guava, pine resin, and grapefruit rind.

Taste follows big hints of orange, guava, pine, and some grapefruit on the back end.

Mouthfeel is bigger than average, plenty of carbonation, a tad dry, and at 9.5% ABV extremely drinkable.

Overall I think this brewery is starting to grow on me, a very approachable and tasty DIPA here.

 

From a 16oz can, undated. Served in an imperial pint pub glass.
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Pours moderately hazy, translucent, sunshiny honey-gold with chunky floaters and three-plus fingers of lumpy, pouffy, lathery foam. Retention is excellent and leaves fat gobs of sticky lacing.

Sweet, flowery nose of honey and ripe, sticky, juicy fruit.

Taste is malty-sweet, syrupy, almost cloyingly sweet. Honey (again) and sticky, ripe orchard fruits. Somewhere, deep down under all those layers of sticky sweetness, I'm tasting grapefruit, bergamot and lemon rind, but there's a heavy boiled cider or mead-like quality that simply buries it. Bitterness develops a bit into the finish, though.

Feel is thick, bready, medium-hefty bodied. There is ample carbonation but, frankly, I would have welcomed even more to lighten it up a bit more.

Overall, a mixed bag. The thick, bready malt was enjoyable but it was so sweet that it was a bit of a chore to get through the whole can.