The Crystal Spirit
Root + Branch Brewing

 

 

 

 

Pours cloudy gold color with an off-white head that faded and left decent lacing. It smells like tangerine and grapefruit, with lemon zest, orange juice, some biscuit and faint peppery spices. Tastes like it smells with tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, pineapple, peach, orange juice, biscuit, yeast, coriander, sweet malt and graham cracker. This beer was maltier than expected but still very tasty.

A 1 pint can, batch 5, canned on 3rd May 2023, poured into a winebar glass.

Appearance: A hazy milky dark yellow colour with an almost two finger white head that had decent retention, while leaving lots of nice lacing.

Aroma: Grapefruit peel, citrus rind and pith, with notes of tropical mango, papaya, and melon.

Taste: A touch of sweet candied dried fruit, pineapple, melon, citrusy, grapefruit peel, citrus pith, and a light bitter finish.

Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.

Overall: Another easy drinking Root + Branch NEDIPA with good aroma and flavours.

Canned on 5/3/23; consumed on 5/27/23

Pours a turbid, dark golden orange body topped with two fingers of fluffy, eggshell-white foam; great head retention yields a half-finger of cap, larger, creamy collar, and a generous spattering of webby lacing walling the glass.

Aromas of flaked oats and grapefruit pith meet orange zest and dank moss, with an airy lime subtext settling into creamy passionfruit and soft hints of mango over time.

Taste brings citrus zest and grapefruit peel upfront, while underlying flaked oats back lime sorbet over the mid-palate and a tinge of mango on the back end of the profile.

Mouthfeel offers a medium-full body and a taut fluff of moderate carbonation; clean, pillowy resins proceed to a distant twang as effortlessly juicy textures ease to a slick glide through the finish.

Brilliant construction projects effortless drinkability, though a generally docile extrapolation of zesty hop overtones appears too safe and ultimately hindering to an otherwise brighter expression.

Turbid golden haze. Nose is creamy dense pineapple and a little banana runt action. Taste is ripe pineapple, mango nectar, maybe slightly underripe banana and pina colada, which is not my jam. Fluffy mouthfeel. Soft pithy bitterness.

The look is an opaque bright yellow/orange with the typical small hazy beer head on the pour. Lacing is evident on the sides of the glass as the beer is consumed. The smell is aromatic hops withe little evidence of the malts. The taste is mostly citra and mosaic hops with no hop burn and a well-hidden ABV. The feel is slightly prickly carbonation, that is not as smooth as other beers in this category. Overall, this is a good beer, but clearly I don't enjoy it as much as other reviewers

 

Look - Milky thick with slight white rimming
Smell - fruit punch citrus forward with an oat scent
Taste - citrus juicy with an oat backbone
Fell - medium body and carb
Overall - pretty great beer

Served in a snifter glass from the can.

Appearance: hazy gold color body with a white head which initially rose half a fingers length off the body.

Smell: Has a fresh piney feel, mixed with oat and orange skin.

Taste: Complex full of oat and citrus juice with other hints of malt. The brew is a little bit allover the place.

Mouth: full body with soft carbonation and incredilbly sticky.

Overall: beer is a master class, you get s bit of everything. Sweet oatmeal and citrus feel which feels like the perfect ending to a great night.

 

 

My first beer from these guys.

Pours a typical New England ipa. Hazy.

Aroma is dark with little citrus in back end

Taste is a little old school bitter. 4 years ago I loved beers like this , but treehouse changed the way I look at iPas. Slightly harsh on back end.

Mouthfeel is creamy and solid for style

Overall despite looking like a New England ipa this is more west coast in taste