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Little House Brewing Co

Crowler filled on 7/16/20

Pours a barely-translucent, glossy burnt orange body topped with multiple fingers of dense, white foam; good head retention leaves a chunky mound of soapy cap, bubbly collar of froth clinging to the sides of the glass, and a generous array of light, soapy, webby lacing around the glass.

Aroma opens with an eclectic combination of wet moss and underripe white grape, setting a dank foundation for an increasingly vivid, musty key lime; guava peel, kiwi, and dank grass all present over the middle, adding a fruity complexion to earthier tones of composting tangerine and slight medicinal hops on the close.

Taste offers underripe white grape must, lemon hard candy, and fresh key lime at the front end of the profile; peach over the mid-palate offers a stone fruit edge to more medicinal hops developing into a back end of light Concord grape, tropical citrus pith, and grass on finish.

Mouthfeel shows a medium body with a carbonation on the higher end of moderate; bright and slightly resinous/oily over the mid-palate, the texture evens with a passive grit into the back end; a mild bitterness takes a back seat to a more juicy, resinous quality reappearing on the finish.

Easy-drinking and highly stable, there is a commitment to composure in this hybrid New England-West Coast DIPA that persists despite an encroaching, residual sweetness threatening to take over; a quality exhibition of hops with an occasional refinement enough to grab your attention, though lacking the nuance and finer elements of balance to make it anything more.

 

32oz growler from the brewery. Pours a slightly hazy brownish orange with a half inch of head. Some lacing. The aroma is sweet and fruity. Tangerine, creamsicle, lemon peel, lime and sweet bread. The taste leans more toward the citrus side. Tangerine, lemon zest, orange peel as well as some dank hops. Orange and lemon zest finish with bits of bread crust. Slightly piney at the end. Oily mouthfeel with a fair amount of alcohol heat. Medium body and lightly carbonated.

From a Crowler dated today, poured to a Nonic.
Medium head of many sized bubbles but fades to lacing well before the end of the session. Body is golden translucent, not cloudy, not opaque. You can kind of recognize your fingers on the other side of the glass.
Aroma is citrus peel, dankness, lemon oil on grass clippings basically.
Taste follows smell, but with hop wonder visiting at the back end. Nice body, slightly oily but cleaned up at the end with good carbonation (kind of like little bubbles pressure washing your tongue).
I like this beer. I order it whenever I am there if it is on tap, but in the colder weather coming I may be favoring their stouts and brown ales.