Flow Switch (Vic Secret, Wakatu, Chinook, Experimental Hop 07027)
Kettlehead Brewing Company

16oz undated can.

Pours murky gold with an inch-plus of whipped white. Nice retention and lacing. Candied peach with grapefruit pith and melons in the nose. Medium bodied with a creamy, soft mouthfeel. Juicy, pithy, citrus on the palate with zero malt and minimal bitterness. Grapefruit with peach and orange rind. Finishes dry with lingering pithy citrus.

Poured into a 16 oz Nordic pint glass canned on 3/19/19. Pours a very hazy yellow orange with a finger sticky white head that leaves big thick patches of lace all over the sides of the glass with excellent retention. 4.5

Smell is blueberry, apricot, tangerine, papaya, and grapefruit rind. Bold 4.25

Taste follows blueberry, papaya, apricot, tangerine, and a healthy dose of grapefruit lingers on the palate after each sip. 4.25

Mouthfeel is bigger than most for sure, fairly soft with moderate carbonation, a tad sticky, and a 8% ABV with huge flavor but still very drinkable. 4.5

Overall another excellent one in this rotating Hop NEDIPA series, the most aggressive of the 5 for me. 4.25

From a 16oz can, undated but canned within the past few days. Served in a tulip.

Pours a thoroughly murky, thick-appearing dull orange with a scant finger of fine, soapy head. Retention is meh but leaves a nice creamy collar and some slippery lacing.

Edit to add: another can, average pour into a spiegelau IPA glass yields nearly a three-finger head and terrific retention - so go figure. Anyway, bumping my rating up 0.25 there.

A moderate-to-faint aroma of sweet orange and bubblegum.

Taste is a nice blend of bitter grapefruit juice, sweet orange and vanilla birthday cake, with sour melon and onion following along on the back end. Juicy, dense and dank with a long, sticky resinous finish.

Feel is thick and juicy, medium-hefty bodied, with gentle but adequate carbonation.

Overall, a slightly mixed bag for me, but mostly positive. It’s an interesting melange of the bitter, the sweet, and the sour - frankly, I could have done without the sour. And it’s a big feeling beer. I won’t be drinking more than a couple of these at a sitting, certainly not without unbuttoning my jeans.