Causal Continuum
Resident Culture Brewing Company

16 oz can acclimated to 50°F and poured into an IPA glass.

Pours hazy, a color I always like to call sunshine, pale yellow with a few drops of orange mixed through. Has quite a bit of small to medium sized lighter colored sediment. Produces a 0.5-1 finger frothy white head, leaving splotchy white lacing.

Initial aroma is heavy grapefruit, both rind and flesh. Hops are present, I get a bright, dry, light olive green straw like grass feeling from them, and maybe some lemon zest and light or white jasmine type floral note, hard to tell. I pick up a little pine as well.

After agitating, it's sterile alcohol, a little funk, like wet tree trunk with bark pulled off, a little pine, and overall some dank feel.

Initial taste before swallowing is a buzzy feel, a combination of some alcohol burn and hop bitterness. Hop bitterness being juicy. Some grapefruit, a little tang, juicy but a little watery.

After swallowing, it's a moment of bitter, then a lot of grapefruit juice and a dash of lemon juice and flesh, followed by grapefruit flesh/pulp in the middle, accompanied by an earthy bitterness on the back of the sides of the tongue, plus a soft feeling orange juice with pulp taste. After this develops an alcohol burn, it feels a little high for 7%, and unfortunately it does feel like a fiery burn, like a spirit burns, not too intense, however. I get a little of what tastes like rug burn feels like, or the feeling of ripping apart Velcro aggressively, these are the only ways I can think of so far to describe excessively hopped beer (this mentions being heavily hopped). Other than the alcohol (which I do find to be tamer having had more, somehow) and the heavy hops, it's fairly gentle.

Dry grass and a little pine or resin in the aftertaste, with what seems like lilac or jasmine.

Mouthfeel is juicy, just as you'd expect from the style. It's also very soft, feeling graceful on the palate. Despite being a little watery, it's extremely pleasant.

Overall, interesting, something of a clash happening here. The alcohol burn was not intense, but it was also not helped by the heavy dose of hops that I get a fuzzy almost burning feeling from. Neither of these are a deal breaker on their own (though the hop thing is worse for me), and they aren't together, either, in this quantity. I'll say, though, it's worth noting that it made a pint a little bit of a chore to get through. Not something I could session. What helped it was the juicy feeling we love in hazy IPAs, definitely a little soothing. I found the soft mouthfeel very nice, it paired splendidly with the gentle tastes, I very often enjoy that combination in something that has real tastes.

Not one I think I'll buy again, unfortunately, not one I'd avoid drinking, just wouldn't buy. I'm glad to have tried it, though! I also now have another cool can to display.

Causal Continuum

Resident Culture Brewing Co. IPA New England / Hazy

Chunky, crunchy and deep Space vibe to the hops. White wine and spicy pine tinged citrus flavor. Smooth feel with a juicy and peppery flow. Maybe the most impressive three hop combo I've experienced in a while. The Nelson is pushed to the max. Super clean

Purchased at Colonial Spirits of Acton >

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look: Hazy but bright. Nice head with a retention of about a minute.

Aroma: Not too fragrant. Had to stick my nose in the glass to pick up some citrusy notes.

Taste: Not a great deal of complexity but also no flaws at all in this very drinkable IPA. Nicely bitter but balanced. Not much in terms of other, secondary, aromas or flavors.

Mouthfeel: Medium with mild carbonation. Very enjoyable.

Overall: A nice and drinkable beer but it did not provoke too much thought. I could use this as an everyday beer with meals.

Many thanks to brentk56 for this.

 

 

 

A: The beer is very hazy to cloudy dark yellow in color. It poured with a half finger high dense off white head that died down but consistently left a short head covering the surface and wide rings of bubbles around the sides of the glass.
S: Light to moderate aromas of gooseberries and lime are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell and has flavors of gooseberries along with notes of lime and hints of lychee and mango. No bitterness is perceptible.
M: It feels medium-bodied and very juicy on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This New England-style IPA does a very good job at showcasing the aromas and flavors of gooseberries.

Serving type: can