Fluffy IPA
Untitled Art

 

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on August 25, 2020.

 

 

 

 

16oz can. '07/30/20' canning date on the can bottom.
Hazy like filtered grapefruit juice, and has the pale gold color that reminds me of no pulp orange juice. Two fingers of bright white head upon pouring, which stays around as a thick cap. Leaves behind strings and spots of lacing.
Aroma is that of butterscotch and praline, with marshmallow cream. As the beer warms there is almost a coffee note.
Taste has a few layers. First is the marshmallow and butterscotch, with the middle being quite sweet, and then the semblance of hops comes in at the end. The hops are tropical fruity, but there is a small bite at the very end. Any evergreen flavor is like spruce needles. The aftertaste is mellow, is slightly sweet, and has some piney notes. The marshmallow is quite consistently there through it all.
Thick mouth feel, with some tongue coating and also a little evergreen bite.
This is an interesting brewing exercise, but one can in a session is enough.

 

Blind review
16 oz can poured into wine glass

A- A hazy golden straw with a three finger white head. 4.25

S- Vanilla, cinnamon, some maple, bananas, some chocolate, tropical fruits. Kinds of reminds me of a vanilla candle in the best way possible. 4.5

T- Vanilla, cinnamon, maple, hints of chocolate, tropical fruits, some pine. 4

M- Smooth, medium body. 4.25

O- A very interesting and unique milkshake IPA. 4.25

After thoughts:
I tend to have trouble picking up marshmallows in beer, kind of gave me a fancy s’mores milkshake. After seeing this is a marshmallow milkshake the flavors seem to make more sense.

 

Very confusing beer. Looks and feels like a NEIPA but smells and taste like a stout. Butterscotch candy, praline, butter pecan all dominate the nose and palate. Mixed feelings with this one. Interesting for a minute but not quite my thing.

 

Taking IPA to the sweeter side, Untitled Art just throws copious amounts of toasted marshmallow, honey and vanilla at an already subdued hop-forward ale and turns this New England-styled IPA into a diabetic shock just waiting to happen.

Turbidly hazy and stained in a burnish gold, Fluffy IPA lives up to its namesake with a creamy dense froth. As the scent of toasted marshmallow, honey and vanilla roll onto the nose, its perfume is stricken with butterscotch and butter pecan. Rich cereal sweetness wraps around the tongue with cream of wheat, cookie dough and a general pastry sweetness.

Mouth coating and confectionary to taste, the middle palate is enveloped with sweet cream, nougat and cream candy before settling on a fruiter tone of orange, pineapple and mango. Easily dwarfed by the sweetness, any hop impressions are subdued and only rise as the bitterness pulls from the sweetness in a spicy, sprucy, peppery grass flavor late on the palate.

Medium full in body, the beer's body lightens somewhat toward finish. Although its level of sweetness is high, its body is medium and trends malty and slightly dryish with only hints of hop balance. Despite its near cloying sweetness, the "pastry" IPA is almost palatable as IPA.