Climb the Ballmer Peak
Equilibrium Brewery
- From:
- Equilibrium Brewery
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10.5%
- Score:
- 93
- Avg:
- 4.32 | pDev: 4.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 02, 2021
- Added:
- May 19, 2020
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
Collaboration with Trillium Brewing Company
The Ballmer Peak - Steve Ballmer of Microsoft discovered a correlation between cognitive ability, creativity, problem solving, and performance after you indulge in an alcohol beverage and are in the 0.129% - 0.138% BAC range. This sweet spot is known as the Ballmer Peak. When we had the pleasure of having JC from Trillium here, we talked about how much we loved the Ballmer Peak collaboration we brewed in Canton in back in 2019 (possibly mid-peak). Keeping the recipe similar, we wanted to revisit the beer that helped form precious moments, enhanced BBQ recipes, friendships, and of course delicious recipes. To help you obtain this experience, we will help you Climb the Ballmer Peak.
Climb The Ballmer Peak uses our Super Fractal base and fermentation and is hopped exclusively with Citra. This TIPA pours an opaque bright orange and has an intense juice forward aroma of Mango, Passionfruit, Pineapple, and Rainbow Melon. We don’t know exactly what rainbow melon is, but we want to stay true to our emotional responses that occur while we Climb the Ballmer peak. Flavors and bright notes of deep navel orange, passionfruit, grapefruit and lime go along with a touch of berry and lychee. The EQ juice profile is extreme, and this beer can easily pass as a juice drink, although reaching your Ballmer Peak after just a few sips may say otherwise.
The Ballmer Peak - Steve Ballmer of Microsoft discovered a correlation between cognitive ability, creativity, problem solving, and performance after you indulge in an alcohol beverage and are in the 0.129% - 0.138% BAC range. This sweet spot is known as the Ballmer Peak. When we had the pleasure of having JC from Trillium here, we talked about how much we loved the Ballmer Peak collaboration we brewed in Canton in back in 2019 (possibly mid-peak). Keeping the recipe similar, we wanted to revisit the beer that helped form precious moments, enhanced BBQ recipes, friendships, and of course delicious recipes. To help you obtain this experience, we will help you Climb the Ballmer Peak.
Climb The Ballmer Peak uses our Super Fractal base and fermentation and is hopped exclusively with Citra. This TIPA pours an opaque bright orange and has an intense juice forward aroma of Mango, Passionfruit, Pineapple, and Rainbow Melon. We don’t know exactly what rainbow melon is, but we want to stay true to our emotional responses that occur while we Climb the Ballmer peak. Flavors and bright notes of deep navel orange, passionfruit, grapefruit and lime go along with a touch of berry and lychee. The EQ juice profile is extreme, and this beer can easily pass as a juice drink, although reaching your Ballmer Peak after just a few sips may say otherwise.
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Reviewed by dbrauneis from North Carolina
4.46/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Note: Batch 2
A: Pours a murky milky medium bright orange in color with moderate amounts of fine active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate bright yellow + pale orange + pale golden yellow + apricot colored highlights. The beer has a two finger tall dense creamy sudsy foamy bright white head that slowly reduces to a handful of small patches of medium thick film surrounded by a large patch of thin film covering the remainder of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate to significant amounts of lacings are observed.
S: Moderate to strong aromas of juicy citrus/orange + tropical/mango + tropical/pineapple + tropical/passionfruit + citrus/grapefruit + citrus/lime hops over the top of just shy of moderate aromas of biscuit + pale + oat malts with moderate amounts of sugary sweetness.
T: Upfront there are just shy of moderate flavors of biscuit + pale + oat malts with moderate amounts of sugary sweetness. That is followed by moderate to strong flavors of juicy citrus/orange + tropical/mango + tropical/pineapple + tropical/passionfruit + citrus/grapefruit + citrus/lime hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which fades away almost instantly leaving slightly stronger than moderate flavors of citrus + tropical hops lingering.
M: Just shy of medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Moderate amounts of creamy soft/fluffiness mid-body and a light amount of dryness in the finish.
O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a very pleasantly creamy soft/fluffy mouthfeel. Enjoyable with a really great aroma + flavor of citrus and tropical hops. Really enjoyed this one and would definitely grab another if I see it again (though it sold out very quickly here as a part of the first Equilibrium cans we saw in the Triad area of NC).
Feb 02, 2021A: Pours a murky milky medium bright orange in color with moderate amounts of fine active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate bright yellow + pale orange + pale golden yellow + apricot colored highlights. The beer has a two finger tall dense creamy sudsy foamy bright white head that slowly reduces to a handful of small patches of medium thick film surrounded by a large patch of thin film covering the remainder of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate to significant amounts of lacings are observed.
S: Moderate to strong aromas of juicy citrus/orange + tropical/mango + tropical/pineapple + tropical/passionfruit + citrus/grapefruit + citrus/lime hops over the top of just shy of moderate aromas of biscuit + pale + oat malts with moderate amounts of sugary sweetness.
T: Upfront there are just shy of moderate flavors of biscuit + pale + oat malts with moderate amounts of sugary sweetness. That is followed by moderate to strong flavors of juicy citrus/orange + tropical/mango + tropical/pineapple + tropical/passionfruit + citrus/grapefruit + citrus/lime hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which fades away almost instantly leaving slightly stronger than moderate flavors of citrus + tropical hops lingering.
M: Just shy of medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Moderate amounts of creamy soft/fluffiness mid-body and a light amount of dryness in the finish.
O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a very pleasantly creamy soft/fluffy mouthfeel. Enjoyable with a really great aroma + flavor of citrus and tropical hops. Really enjoyed this one and would definitely grab another if I see it again (though it sold out very quickly here as a part of the first Equilibrium cans we saw in the Triad area of NC).
Reviewed by orcrist_cleaver from New York
4.41/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.41/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours of an opaque calendula cream, and of a sunlit pastel marigold dress. Expressive aromatic tones of golden pineapple chunks, mango slices, Valencia orange peel twists slightly crushed to release an essential mist; and, altogether one big can of tropical nectar. Suggestion of honey and faint solvent. Grates against the thicker side of medium bodied with a tacky, resinous mouthfeel. Wistfully sipping on the crazed juice cocktail in the saddle between the Ballmer Peaks is like drinking a grove of citrus trees--lime and grapefruit--that might share a boundary with a neglected, rotten papaya orchard, or possibly, is it the dew on a fresh hemp harvest? Underripe stone fruit, nectarine and longan, interspersed with creative dashes of malted biscuit sweetness. However, the medium hop burn, mild throat warmth, and floral bitterness balance the scales.
May 20, 2020
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