DDH 755
BlackStack Brewing

 

Thanks to Jeff for this one.

16oz. can into a Brooklyn Brewery snifter.

This one's super pale. Nose is starfruit, citrus, pine, and super aromatic hop oils. Delicious. Beer opens pine, grass, and grapefruit. There's a big juicy hop bite in the middle mixed with kiwi that pounds the taste buds and it finishes off bone dry with notes of starfruit and pineapple. Great balance. Just a real nice drinker. Body is light with ample carbonation. Prickly, lively, and foamy on the palate and goes down bone dry with a long, lingering aftertaste.

A real nice beer.

16oz pounder can with no date, but the manager assured me this is very fresh / brandy new

Brown-bagged it, smell goes metallic, flavor explodes into fruit and bitter. A very bitter and overly hopped DIPA at only 6.8%, seems like your typical; it's great but typical of the plethora of tasty IPAs these days. But then the finish... this is the main attraction: smooth, fruit (getting a lot of peach, pine, and yellow apple) flavor filled, creamy - soothing rather than Abrasive.

BlackStack is doing it and doing it well

2020-06-16
16oz can served in a big snifter. Dated...nowhere that I can see.

Pours very light whitish-yellow with a small head. Smell is citrus pith, lemon, maybe a hint of orange.

Taste is very juicy, a little lemon, vague citrus.

Mouthfeel is very light, pretty dry. Overall, pretty good beer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On tap. Poured a very cloudy, golden orange color with a small, white head of foam. It smelled of pineapple, grapefruit, orange and toasted caramel. Sweet juicy tropical fruit flavors with caramel and a nice bitterness.

 

Pouring from a 16 oz. can into a pint glass this beer pours out looking like some sort of peach/pineapple/mango juice with a clearly audible carbonation fizzing. Looks great but while the crown does leave some lacing on the sides of the glass, it doesn't have very much retention. Sediment forms in the bottom of the glass that looks like mold or almost fungus. The smell brings in huge citrus and a juiciness that the ddh style is known for. Some mango/stonefruit/oranges. The taste brings those all in as well and then adds a nice tang on the backend. This also has a nice hop bite, which I always enjoy when I'm drinking an IPA (ddh or not). Soft and airy mouthfeel makes it quite an easy drinker. Overall, I like this brew and enjoy the hop bite in there with it a lot. Wish more brewers of NEipas would learn to add that balance in there.

Poured from 16oz can into glass. 'MORE MORE MORE' stamped on can bottom, and this line is also printed nineteen times on the label. Brewer says brewed with Citra hops, and no Enigma. Another reviewer said also has Cashmere hops but no confirmation from the brewer.
Murky yellow gold colored body. Two finger puffy white head, which settles to creamy cap. Leaves behind strings and sheets of lacing.
Aroma is sweet and citrus hops. Orange, tangerine, and very fragrant.
Taste is full of hops, which results in a drying of the palate. Lot of orange and tangerine citrus, and even a touch of sweet melon.
Fuller mouth feel, with the sensation of the beer scraping the mouth down to dryness, but leaving a lingering sweetness after taste. Not bitter but the hop bite is felt at the back of the throat. Will be enjoyed by hop heads but probably too much for beer drinkers who favor more of a malt experience.