Spec Reflect
HOMES Brewery

 

 

16 FL OZ can
Served in a HOMES glass

This beer pours pale yellow with a slight haze. It is topped with a few inches of fluffy, white head that leaves decent lacing.

The smell is tropical and citrus fruit along with some melon.

The flavor follows the smell. I get tropical fruit with a strong melon taste.

Medium bodied with a creamy mouthfeel

This is not the best HOMES IPA, but it is still of great quality. It is very quaffable.

16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 3/29/2019. Pours fairly hazy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big mandarin orange, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, red apple, passion fruit, mango, melon, strawberry, gooseberry, vanilla, white grape/wine, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big mandarin orange, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, red apple, passion fruit, mango, melon, strawberry, gooseberry, vanilla, white grape/wine, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, woody, floral, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of mandarin orange, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, red apple, passion fruit, mango, melon, strawberry, gooseberry, vanilla, white grape/wine, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 6.7%. Overall this is an awesome IPA. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/resinous/drying finish; nicely soft feel and not aggressive. Awesome Simcoe, Citra, and Lotus profile. Very juicy, vibrant, and fairly dank/earthy hops; with a great balancing wheat/malt backbone. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and awesome style example as usual. First time having Lotus hops, but it works great with the other two as expected.

 

Brewed with simcoe, DDH with lotus and citra, this is a really nice IPA, and a real crusher. Nice pale hazy yellow in the glass, lots of carbonation and head lingers, really nice melon, pine, orange, vanilla, creamy, smooth.