Commodus
Brasserie Du Bas-Canada

From a 16oz can, dated 07/20/23. Served in an IPA glass.

Pours milky-pale dull orange with two-plus fingers of beaten egg white-like head. Retention is excellent, leaving a puffball cap and fat gobs of bubbly lacing.

Nose is relatively faint and hard for me to pin down: ‘soft fruit’ is about the best I can do.

Taste is vinous, boozy, and bitter with underripe fruit. Tasting pineapple cores, apricot, peach, grapefruit, lime. Finishes with a harsh, earthy, citrus peel bitterness.

Feel is juicy, medium-sticky bodied with zesty, semi-aggressive carbonation. Dry but sticky finish.

Overall, aside from tasting boozier than the stated 8.2% abv, it seems to be a well built beer and I appreciated the bitterness - but the flavor profile didn’t quite click for me. Sometimes expressed as ‘it’s not you; it’s me.’

Can: Poured a hazy/cloudy pale yellow color ale with a large white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of huge citrusy hoppy notes with some huge floral hops undertones and some dry tropical notes. Taste is also a good mix of citrusy hoppy notes with some juicy citrus hops notes and juicy floral undertones with a remarkably dry tropical finish. Body is full with good carbonation. Interesting double NEIPA with some dry NZ type hops.