Keep Yer Claws Sharp
Fat Orange Cat Brew Co.

A: cloudy; medium gold in color; 1 finger finely pored ivory head that receded to a thin cap; nice thick rings of lace;

S: orange zest, grapefruit zest, and lemon;

T: grapefruit from start to finish; mild bitterness at the end;

M: medium bodied; moderate carbonation; moderately dry finish; mild hop burn;

O: good, but I expected more - it's FOC;

Creamy, sweet, and very sessionable. Quite tasty.

Beautiful golden color with an orange center. A delicious IPA that isn't as sweet as the can portrays with a balanced fruit flavor. One of the smoothest IPAs I've ever had while still crisp and refreshing.

 

Citrus-forward nose, along with some bright green herbs. A bit of a muddled melange, but a very pleasant one.

A touch sweeter and more tropical on the palate, with a blend of tropical and citrus notes. Papaya, mango, orange, cream, vanilla, lemon.

Smooth and creamy on the palate.

This is a NE-style IPA that does everything right - while not bringing anything new to the table. Excellent.

 

 

Pours fully opaque straw gold with some amber hues. A finger of fluffy dense white head rises with good retention and super soapy lacing. Nose is pineapple, tropical fruit, citrus, some bitter hop as well as a dank note. Very complex hop bill. Taste follows suit with a sweet tropical overtone. Feel is full but crisp. Overall, excellent.

A: The beer is very hazy to cloudy pale whitish yellow in color. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that consistently left a thin layer of bubbles covering both the surface and the sides of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of tropical fruits are present in the nose along with notes of lime and hints of strawberries.
T: The taste follows the smell, except that the flavors of strawberries is a bit stronger and there are also hints of cream.
M: It feels medium-bodied and smooth on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: The strawberries and cream in this IPA are a pleasant surprise. The beer is very easy to drink.

Serving type: can

 

16oz can. Poured out a hazy, cloudy, golden color with a large, off-white head of foam. It left sudsy sheets of lace on the glass. It smelled of pineapple, orange peel, mango and toasted caramel. Sweet tropical fruit taste with a piney bitterness and caramel backbone.

 

 

 

not sure how fresh this was, can split a couple of ways with the whole crew commenting. my wife said it smells like a house that has cats, i dont know if that means pee or litter box or what, but it doesnt seem positive. to me it doesnt even smell like the catty mosaic notes, its more like coconut and papaya, tropical but slightly understated, southern hemisphere, herbal, definitely a little weird too though, but maybe more from the ferment than from the hops. its pretty dense looking, dull too, thicker and murkier than i tend to prefer in the style, but with a high and lasting white head, take the good with the bad here. the flavor is a little more conventional than the nose is, to me its all dry hopping, a little over the line but not too green or anything, it just stays with me forever on the swallow, not quite generic, subtle stone fruit, kiwi, and guava, but you kind of have to go looking for it, more vegetal aspects as it warms. i also oddly taste and feel alcohol on this, doesnt seem like a flaw, but its out of place to me at this abv. a weird one overall, drinks dense and slow, tastes maybe less than perfectly fresh, thats a lookout with these cross country single hazy cans at these prices, but its not way off. i was hoping for a little more, i have been quite taken with some of their other hoppy beers, but this one didnt quite measure up for me. harsh in a weird instance, super full, and less unique in taste than it is in aroma.