Living Free of Fear
Troon Brewing

Crowler canned on 4/18/22; consumed on 7/16/22

Pours a densely hazy, glossy, sunflower-gold body topped with multiple fingers of tight, airy, white foam; great head retention leaves ¾ finger of fluffy cap, a large, frothy collar, and walls of webby lacing caked along the side of the glass.

Aromas of waxy papaya fall alongside musty peach for a boggy, tropical opening; mango zest reinvigorates a riper tone before a peaking hop stank resounds into passionfruit and guava peel on the waning impressions of the bouquet.

Taste brings pithy guava and dirt-coated resins underscored with an earthy, herbal bittering upfront; underlying pineapple eases in the backdrop beneath a dank lemon meringue over the mid-palate and tinges of white grape must and peach zest on the back end.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body with a rounded, moderate carbonation, dispersing a prickly, earthy bittering into silky resins underlying across the mid-palate; a more outright creaminess cuts through the subdued griton the backend as a pseudo-bitterness progresses through a finish marked by the paradoxically deft touch of a weighty saturation.

A raw, gritty hop underbelly courses beneath a glossy saturation laden with musty tropical displays and a subtle herbaceousness; bold hop interplay presented in immensely drinkable NEIPA form from Troon.