Hop Surf
Energy City Brewing

 

Poured from a can into a snifter. Pours hazy golden yellow orange with a small white head. Smells of citrus hops with slight grassy hops. Tastes of citrus hops with some earthy notes. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, a very good beer.

 

 

 

Purchased this NEIPA from Tavour, August/2020. Pours cloudy, orange color half inch foam with minimal lacing. Tropical aromas followed by a nice mango fruity taste. A slight bitterness and picking up a little booziness towards the end. Overall this is well balanced, a nice example of the hazy style.

 

Pours an opaque deep hay yellow, small head with nice lacing. Nose is tropical fruit with tones of boozy ammonia. Taste is really nice, balanced bitter and fruit, with some lemon bite to add to the carbonation feel. Not creamy or sweet, and the boozy effect of being a dipa only very slightly noticeable.

 

 

Pours a completely opaque, matte orange color. Thin fizzy white head dissipates pretty quickly leaving just a thin ring of foam along the outside of the top of the beer.

Aroma has notes of cantaloupe, mango, pine, and a strong herbal hop aroma. Its really dank for a NE style IPA. Still has that sweetness characteristic of the style - moderate, not overpowering.

Taste follows the nose with a strong herbal dankness - light underlying notes of peach, orange, and mango provide a subtle sweet fruitiness to the flavor profile. Moderately bitter on the back end, but the herbal character provides a certain vegetal character to the beer. If you like the herbal dankness, you'll like this one - for me, I didn't like the flavors in the delivery of a NE style IPA.

Feel is light to medium bodied, super prickly with robust carbonation. Semi-dry finish.

Overall, its an interesting IPA. I am not sure I would pick this one up again as I did not love the flavor profile, but some may really enjoy it.

 

A: The beer is very hazy and a bit pale yellow in color. It poured with a short white head that quickly settled down, leaving a narrow ring of bubbles around the collar and some lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of herbal hops are present in the nose along with notes of lychee and stone fruit.
T: The taste follows the smell and starts off with flavors of herbal hops along with underlying notes of gooseberry, lychee and stone fruit. There are some hints of pine in the finish. No bitterness is perceptible.
M: It feels medium-bodied, smooth and somewhat juicy on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This New England-style IPA was nice and smooth and juicy. It had an interesting combination of herbal and tropical fruit hops.

Serving type: can

Pineapple and passion fruit aroma come through. Taste is more piney with slight bitterness and dryness towards the end. Overall goes down smooth with good balance.

 

 

I'm trying this beer at my good friend and old neighbor house in the 'Wego. The beer poured a hazy yellowish with thin white head that not leaving any lace. The scent had peach, tangerine and other medley of fruit. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with peach and tropical fruit presence. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall its a solid beer.