Dreamer
New Park Brewing

From a 16oz can, dated 10/14/20. Served in an IPA glass.

Pours a heavily hazy, dull and dark apricot color with two fingers of off-white bubbly foam. Retention is very good, settling to a thick, scuzzy cap and tatters of sticky lacing. It is not an especially pretty beer...

Aroma is bright and citrusy. Powerful aroma of candied, boozy tangerine.

Taste is creamy-malty, oily orange peel and macerated tangerine with a lemon-lime/almost minty top note. Vanishingly low bitterness but a significant hop oil tingle on the tongue.

Feel is creamy and slick, medium-thick bodied and round, with fine, tingly carbonation. Feels like a bigger beer than it’s stated abv, not in terms of booziness, more it’s just overall heft.

For most of the glass, I was thinking there was lactose on account of the creaminess before I caught on that it was actually oats - nicely done. As purely an expression of orange character as I can remember in an IPA and such a hop oily intensity it almost comes across as mint.

 

 

 

 

 

16oz can purchased at New Park. Pours a hazy dark orange with over an inch of head. Lots of lacing. Fruity and slightly sweet aroma. Lime, pineapple, coconut, mango and guava. The taste is coconut, lime, mango and maybe some lemon zest. Citrus peel finish with some peach. Soft body with an oily mouthfeel.