The Best Jokes! (...Are the Ones You Have To Explain)
North Park Beer Company

Type: 16-oz. can
Reviewed as: New England Triple / Imperial IPA
Glass: Pure Project 16-oz. snifter glass
Price: $27 for a 4-pack
From: North Park Beer Company in North Park (San Diego), Calif.
Purchased: Aug. 12, 2022
Consumed: Aug. 12, 2022
Misc.: Collaboration with Green Cheek; Canned on Aug. 9, 2022; Split (2/4) with Sonny (1/4) and Kevin (1/4)

Grabbed a 4-pack of this and another since I really wanted both. North Park’s website called this one “Our cheeky best buds from Green Cheek are super hilarious, but we just never seem to get their jokes so our latest collaboration “The Best Jokes! (…Are The Ones You Have To Explain)” was born. This Triple Dry Hopped Hazy Triple India Pale is loaded up with Citra, Citra Cryo and Freestyle Peacharine for insane amounts of deep belly laughs, gummy peach rings, obnoxious front row hecklers and pulpy, ultra fresh squeezed orange juice tasting notes. This beer is best enjoyed with friends, lots of laughs, smiles and all the good vibes!” North Park AND Green Cheek? Damn!

Poured a bright light golden hazy color with two fingers of frothy off-white head. Could see just a few bubbles coming up along the sides of the glass. Almost perfect spiderweb foamy lacing. World-class foamy retention. (Sight - 4.75)

Smelled Citra, peach, nectarine, stone fruit, pulp orange juice, pineapple, grapefruit, citrus peel and melon. Even better from the can with the addition of peach fruit cup. (Smell - 4.25)

Tasted peach, nectarine, stone fruit, pear, mixed fruit cup, pulpy orange juice, Citra, pineapple, grapefruit, citrus peel and melon. (Taste - 4.50)

Medium body. Creamy texture. Average-to-lively carbonation. Slightly astringent finish. (Feel - 4.25)

Just another banging hazy triple IPA from North Park. (Overall - 4.50)

4.43 | 98 | A

Canned on 8/9/22; consumed on 8/15/22

Pours a turbid, milky sunflower-gold body capped with multiple fingers of airy, soapy foam; solid head retention leaves a choppy half-finger of cap, a moderate, frothy collar, and a uniformly comprehensive spatter of spotty lacing dotted across the walls of the glass.

Aroma wafts an ultra-dank saturation, with residual passionfruit, tinges of lime, and papaya stimulating a foundation of sticky, boggy resins; dew-soaked moss offers a vividly earthy counter to lush pineapple edges as the bouquet lingers.

Taste brings musty passionfruit, papaya, and shades of peach upfront, with mossy resins and grapefruit peel sweetened delicately with notes of guava over the mid-palate; distant basil undertones bring a calmly herbaceous twist to suggestions of waxy white grape over the back end while pineapple peaks through the finish.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body and a subtle, lower-end carbonation, creamy upfront before a gritty hop prickle washes over the mid-palate; earthy resins persist to a freshly dirty coating, culminating in a pillowy bittering as a resurgent silk softens textures on the close.

Raw hop residuals feed an indomitably varied expression with intense saturation and a swampy foil to tropical air; elaborate displays via natural aggression comprise this quintessential, top-tier NETIPA.

Sweet stonefruity-peach and an orange-tangerine citrus nose on this one! Taste follows with a tropical hoppy, orange citrus bitter, and slightly under-ripe peach/nectarine fruity finish. Whoa...this is well done! Beautiful color, soft and fluffy mouthfeel, not too boozy, and a great stonefruity hoppy bite on the backend. Drinking fantastic right out the gate!!! North Park and Green Cheek knocked this one out the "Park"!