The Yard Pineapple Milkshake IPA
Hell's Basement

Nice, well rounded and smooth, almost creamy body to it with a good amount of sweetness to it. Pineapple flavor pairs well with the hops, rather then overshadowing them, leading it to taste a bit more hoppy then most of the rest of the yard series, still the hops have is a nice tropical flavor to them that works well with the pineapple flavors present and doesn't leave a lingering bitterness on the finish, giving it more of a hazy NEIPA flavor with a richer, sweeter body.

 

355ml can - more fruit, more milkshake, more IPA, and more, um, yard?

This beer pours a hazy, medium golden amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and sort of bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of random streaky lace around the glass as it quickly sinks out of sight.

It smells of weak overripe pineapple flesh, bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of buttery crackers, and some mild leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is mixed citrus fruit (mandarin orange, pineapple, and lemon), grainy and bready caramel malt, more plain Ritz crackers, and some still fairly meek earthy, musky, and piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite understated in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a minor creaminess emerging as things progress here. It finishes off-dry, the thoroughly muddled fruitiness showing some lingering gusto.

Overall - yeah, if the word 'pineapple' wasn't so prominent in this one's name, I might not have even noticed it. It's frooty, all right, but in a blended, candy or fruit juice sense (whaddya mean there's apple concentrate in my kid's grape juice?). Anyways, very flavourful, however - don't break out the coconuts just yet.