Paradox Theory
Pivot Brewing Company

 

 

Showing the ability to shift on a dime, the brewery component of Pivot turns to the "hazy" IPA to show a crafty and current taste of the craft beer trends.

Paradox Theory comes to the bar with a pale and hazy golden look, topped off with the expected creamy white foam. A host of green fruit passes across the nose with notions of citrus, tropical, herbal and vinous fruit. Sweeter once on the tongue, a medium and cereal sweetness carries the one of light toasted shortbread, faint honey and agave.

But pivoting in taste once on the middle palate, the taste soon turns to hops and all their glory of lime, passionfruit, white grapefruit, under ripened oranges, white grape and papaya. With a backbone of creaminess, hints of pawpaw add a roundness to flavor before the balance tilts herbal, spicy and bitter with impressions of lemongrass, green tea, a slight winey-type of spice, fresh spruce and grassy parsley.

Medium bodied and refreshing, Paradox Theory finishes on the drier side of malty-dry with an extension of green herb, spices and a host of nearly gin-like botanicals in a medium-long aftertaste.