Dream Wave Inception
Equilibrium Brewery
- From:
- Equilibrium Brewery
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
Ranked #1,044 - ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 91
Ranked #8,434 - Avg:
- 4.24 | pDev: 5.19%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 07, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 27, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
91
Outstanding
91
Outstanding
Collaboration with Other Half Brewing Company.
Dream Wave Inception takes Dream Wave Fluctuation’s hop bill of Citra and Galaxy and adds Motueka and Enigma along with a ton of flaked oats and a touch of lactose. Dreamwave Inception pours a hazy bright tangerine yellow and explodes with notes of citrus and stone fruit. Its flavors are orange tang, papaya, peach sorbet, and bright berry with a touch of lime and white grape juice. Juicy notes morph into a creamy finish and a pleasant balanced bitterness. Loaded with #EQjuice, this beer is the product of a fun day in the lab with our tie-dyed lab coats. More on the lab coat later...
Dream Wave Inception takes Dream Wave Fluctuation’s hop bill of Citra and Galaxy and adds Motueka and Enigma along with a ton of flaked oats and a touch of lactose. Dreamwave Inception pours a hazy bright tangerine yellow and explodes with notes of citrus and stone fruit. Its flavors are orange tang, papaya, peach sorbet, and bright berry with a touch of lime and white grape juice. Juicy notes morph into a creamy finish and a pleasant balanced bitterness. Loaded with #EQjuice, this beer is the product of a fun day in the lab with our tie-dyed lab coats. More on the lab coat later...
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Reviewed by dbl_delta from Pennsylvania
4.19/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Undated can into pint glass. Pours a murky light amber with a sizeable off-white head. Initial impression is juicy grapefruit, oranges, lemon, berries, and a touch of pine bitterness. Mouthfeel is soft but not full-bore NEIPA soft, and a little sticky. Finish is initially sweet gradually morphs to a slight bitterness in the back of the throat.
Collabs sometimes have a way of highlighting the worst of both breweries, but in Dream Wave Inception the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Overall, a very enjoyble DIPA.
Sep 25, 2020Collabs sometimes have a way of highlighting the worst of both breweries, but in Dream Wave Inception the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Overall, a very enjoyble DIPA.
Reviewed by orcrist_cleaver from New York
4.12/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From Batch: 3, canned 8.20.20. I assume this is the 3rd conception of this beer. Really, before I start out any beer rating, a tenet I have is that any beer conceived from a good pun gets a .25 bump in the ratings. So, from the emotive inspired OH 'dream' to the EQ 'wave' based particle physics, this Nolan rip-off has good bones.
A: Cloudy, hazy, most tepid looking hue of goldenrod. Orange rung through greyscale and mixed with dry cleaning runoff. Bright enough for being cloudy, but one of the more muted NEIPAs.
S: Citrus, pineapple nectar, rotting berries, and lychee were in the nose as the taste was just as sweet, sticky, and dirty in the sense that this felt like traipsing through a Sinoloan field of Ambrosia covered by blueberry bushes and peach trees. This dreaminess is one of the beer's highpoints.
M: Lots of oats to soften the feel; otherwise, a pale thin body. Lots of carbonation hides an aggressive booziness.
T: Sweet melon and orange fruit; grapefruit, pine, dank, cotton candy bubble gum, sour lime. Low bitterness. Moderate sweetness. A nice stickiness lingered in the back as the lactose and fruit combined for a nectarine sweetness of the "I have 10 minutes left to chew" bubblegum nature.
Sep 01, 2020A: Cloudy, hazy, most tepid looking hue of goldenrod. Orange rung through greyscale and mixed with dry cleaning runoff. Bright enough for being cloudy, but one of the more muted NEIPAs.
S: Citrus, pineapple nectar, rotting berries, and lychee were in the nose as the taste was just as sweet, sticky, and dirty in the sense that this felt like traipsing through a Sinoloan field of Ambrosia covered by blueberry bushes and peach trees. This dreaminess is one of the beer's highpoints.
M: Lots of oats to soften the feel; otherwise, a pale thin body. Lots of carbonation hides an aggressive booziness.
T: Sweet melon and orange fruit; grapefruit, pine, dank, cotton candy bubble gum, sour lime. Low bitterness. Moderate sweetness. A nice stickiness lingered in the back as the lactose and fruit combined for a nectarine sweetness of the "I have 10 minutes left to chew" bubblegum nature.
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