Lip Pointer
Dog Island Brewing

Hazy bright golden pour with the look of pineapple juice and a finger of foamy white head.
Nose of citrus, pithy grapefruit; tropical fruit - mango and pineapple in a tropical fruit salad - some pine and hints of dank leafy hops.
Grapefruit up front on the palate, soft flavours of the tropical fruit from the aroma, but more striking is the pine resin and the herbal, dank, and sweaty hops on a slightly bready base. Warming alcohol.
Medium full mouthfeel with average carbonation and a lingering bittersweet finish.

Appearance - Pours a hazy pineapple with two fingers of frothy white head.

Smell - leafy, piney, citrus and tropical hops, pine resin, mango, pineapple, peach, papaya, citrus and orange peel, bready malts, and earthy yeast.

Taste - bold leafy, piney, citrus and tropical hops upfront. The pine resin, mango, pineapple, peach, papaya, citrus and orange peel quickly follow suit. The bready malts and earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the citrus and tropical fruits lingering.

Overall - A well rendered imperial IPA. This comes across as a hybrid of a New England IPA and a imperial IPA. Quite tasty and quaffable.

473ml can - whose dumb-ass marketing idea was it to put dull purple text on a black background? Will try (maybe) to investigate what the hell this one's name refers to in a wee spell.

This beer pours a thoroughly murky, diluted orange juice colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent bonsai forest profile lace around the glass as it evenly bleeds out of sight.

It smells of biscuity and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, some prominent damp minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness. The taste is gritty and crackery caramel malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and aged lemon citrus peel, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, more wet stone paths after a summer thunderstorm, and steady weedy, musky, and piney green hop bitters.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-mollifying frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, with some burgeoning aerosol creamy notes in an acrimonious pas-de-deux with the inherent hop interlopers here. It finishes off-dry, the berry fruit essences exhibiting some lingering ooomph.

Overall - this is a pretty heady and pleasantly rendered iteration of er, some DIPA sub-style. Ok, gooooooo Google! Reporting back - so, none of my suspicions about this brew have been borne out by those lesser beer sources still out there. To wit, it isn't an NE-style offering, despite my ongoing experience, and, yeah, the name means not a lick to this sportsfan, just outside the game, and looking back in. At any rate, a stand-up big-boy IPA.