Can Phones
BlackStack Brewing

Picked up a single from the Craft Beer Hop Stop cooler 10-31-20 for $6.49. No canning date but presumably canned in October; consumed 2-9-21. Cold stored since purchase.

Beer poured a hazy orange with a nice white head with the original pour.

Nose is nice, very tropical and citrus forward.

Taste follows the nose with a large but lighter malt base displays juicy hopping with mango and oranges up front and center finishing sweeter than most in the style with a light touch of rind bittering; 4/10 on my scale.

Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied and very soft and smooth.

Overall could use more hopping to balance the sweetness but an enjoyable beer nonetheless.

 

2020-12-23
16oz can served in a big snifter. Bought it from Tavour. Dated...unknown. Don't see anything that resembles a date on the can.

Pours a hazy light orange-yellow with a smallish head. Smell is slight lemon pith and pine, a little tropical juice.

Taste is juicy in an unusual way. Not so tropical, somewhat citrus, but not quite. Maybe it's pears and nectarines? That's the best I have with my blunt palate. I guess it also makes me think of star fruit, of all things.

Mouthfeel is smooth, moderately thin, not quite effervescent enough for my tastes. Overall, it's an interesting beer, and I'm enjoying it.

 

Poured from a 16 ounce can into a IPA glass.

Look- Straw, hazy, below average head retention, average lacing.

Smell- Dank, grapefruit, pineapple, melon.

Taste- Grapefruit, melon, herbaceous, tart finish.

Feel- Between thin and medium body, slightly below average carbonation, moderate bitterness, tart-mouth watering finish.

Overall- With the hop variety and DDH brewing process I expected a much more vibrant and broad favor profile.

Hazy. Moderate head with some lacing.

A lot of the usual NE characteristics of tropical notes but accented by some herbal, piney bitterness. Finishes a little more dry and butter than some of Black Stack’s hazy IPAs.

Side by side with Can Phone.

Hazier. Thicker. More NE style. Doesn’t have the bubblegum and melon sweetness that the FS version has. This is hoppier, softer, and juicier. Mango, melon, pineapple. Earthy hops to show it’s a double. This is great. Much better than the FS.

Pours a hazy lemon straw color with a white head. Smell is garden fruity ,melon,grape,berries and citrus .Taste is fruity hoppy loads of citrus,stone fruits,nice berries and grapes mix in . A soft mouth feel ABV well hidden not so dry or sweet like so many others, can went down fast.