Lower Haight
New Anthem Beer Project

On tap, pint serving, beer can style glass.

Another unfiltered glass of juice looking beer. This one’s dense and not watery, at least. Only a thin film of white cap, likely a result of the pour. Ample amounts of spot and web lacing.

There’s a nice aromatic blend of grapefruit and citrus, tropical fruits, and pine. The oats and wheat drive the sense to a complex smoky hemp rope aroma.

Flavors follow the aromas. Oats and wheat deliver less than they did in aroma and more in feel than flavor.

Chewy medium body. Not too juicy, perhaps the oats and wheat help with that. Dry back of palate finish.

It went down smooth and was more neipa in look than otherwise. Not bad.

True-to-style hazy! Big on citrus,low bitterness, crushable!

A LIGHT HOPPED IPA ENJOYABLE BUT NOTHING SPECIAL

 

A: Pours a murky milky medium golden orange in color with moderate amounts of fine active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate bright orange + peach + apricot + pale golden yellow + bright yellow colored highlights. The beer has a three finger tall dense creamy sudsy foamy bright white head that slowly reduces to medium sized patch of medium thick film covering a little more than 30% of the surface of the beer surrounded by a large patch of thin film covering the remainder of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Light to moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate to strong aromas of juicy citrus/grapefruit + citrus/orange + tropical/passionfruit + herbal + pine hops over the top of moderate biscuit + pale + oat + wheat malts with a light to moderate amount of sugary sweetness.

T: Upfront there are moderate flavors of biscuit + pale + oat + wheat malts with a light to moderate amount of sugary sweetness. That is followed by moderate to strong flavors of juicy citrus/grapefruit + citrus/orange + tropical/passionfruit + herbal + pine hops which impart a light to moderate amount of bitterness which fades away leaving a light to moderate amount of citrus + pine hop flavors lingering.

M: Light to medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Slightly crisp upfront with a light to moderate amount of creamy soft/fluffiness mid-body and a light amount of dryness in the finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a pleasantly creamy soft/fluffy mouthfeel. Enjoyable though a bit of a hybrid of a West Coast and NEIPA - got that creamy soft/fluffy mouthfeel with the classic C-hops and a bit of bitterness. Definitely one that I would grab again.