Howling Fantods
Annex Ale Project
- From:
- Annex Ale Project
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9.1%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.12 | pDev: 4.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 23, 2020
- Added:
- Jan 02, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.26/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.26/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - named after a phrase coined by the writer David Foster Wallace, which is described as 'an intense feeling of fear of or repulsion for something'. Interesting choice. Also this is a NE-style DIPA.
This beer pours a murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some random streaky lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, wet chalk on the sidewalk, edgy domestic citrus flesh, a hint of tropical juiciness, and some leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, fresh-squeezed orange and red grapefruit juice, a strong earthy minerality, still kind of ethereal exotic fruity notes, and more zingy grassy, piney, and gently soused-up floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and actually fairly smooth, as the boatload of hops in this thing are apparently of the benevolent ilk, at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, with the base malt barely able to keep up with the lingering citrus smoothie character.
Overall - yeah, this one certainly brings the goods, as far as this latest offshoot in the world of IPAs is concerned. Brash, robust, and very indicative of the 6 different hops (and lots of 'em) from Northwest Hop Farms that went into its making. I'm guessing now that the name is supposed to be ironic, as I am obviously totally macking on 'Howling Fantods', the brew!
Jan 02, 2018This beer pours a murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some random streaky lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, wet chalk on the sidewalk, edgy domestic citrus flesh, a hint of tropical juiciness, and some leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, fresh-squeezed orange and red grapefruit juice, a strong earthy minerality, still kind of ethereal exotic fruity notes, and more zingy grassy, piney, and gently soused-up floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and actually fairly smooth, as the boatload of hops in this thing are apparently of the benevolent ilk, at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, with the base malt barely able to keep up with the lingering citrus smoothie character.
Overall - yeah, this one certainly brings the goods, as far as this latest offshoot in the world of IPAs is concerned. Brash, robust, and very indicative of the 6 different hops (and lots of 'em) from Northwest Hop Farms that went into its making. I'm guessing now that the name is supposed to be ironic, as I am obviously totally macking on 'Howling Fantods', the brew!
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