Rad Seeker
Boombox Brewing Company

 

cloudy/hazy
Very drinkable, fruity
Not very hoppy for an ipa

Maybe Rad implies raddler, hmmm?
Very tasty, just not my preference.
Would be a good midday summer beer

 

Rated 27Oct2017.

Picked up 4 tallboys for $12.50 CAD and dear lord, what a steal. Love the "vaporwave" aesthetic on the can. Beautifully hazy. If it wasn't for the carbonation, you'd think it was some sort of tropical fruit juice. Slightly lighter in colour towards the top and bottom of the glass with a sprinkle of sediment settling at the bottom. Aroma and taste match the tropical appearance; oranges, grapefruit, mango, pineapple, apricot. Very nice balance of sweetness from the fruit sugars, tartness from the citrus, with a pleasant hoppy exhale that doesn't overstep it's boundaries. I took the first few sips before noticing it was 7% ABV and was quite surprised as any booziness is wonderfully masked amidst all of the flavour. Quite a rich and velvety mouthfeel for an IPA (although this dances on the border with Hazy IPA's).

This was my first introduction to Boombox and I am very impressed. Hope to see a lot more from them in the future.

473ml can poured into tulip.

Pours a hazy bright gold with one finger of off-white head that leaves cartoon cave formation lace as it recedes.

Smells of lemon and orange rind, mango, tangerine, honeydew, grapefruit, rising bread dough and piney hops.

Tastes of more lemon and orange citrus oils, bready caramel malt, pleasantly muddled tropical fruit, wet stone and pine resin.

Feels soft and silky. Medium bodied with velvety carbonation. Finishes dry.

Verdict: Highly recommended. It is rad.

Boombox Brewing 'Rad Seeker' @ 7.0% , served from a 473 ml can
A-pour is yellow gold from the can to a hazy yellow gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the Spiegelau
S-dank & fruity
T-juicy tasting hazy NE IPA , with a dry finish
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-just an ok beer/ NE IPA /another of the haze craze
prost LampertLand

On tap at the brewery, Vancouver.
Glows yellow; fresh squeezed lemonade nose; tangerine, pineapple, apricot, slight mango, bits of dank; scratchy but round.

4.25 4.25 4 4 4.25

Starts Amarillo + Citra, ends Simcoe + Mosaic. All light + bright - tropical, but nothing luscious - then catty + weedy as it goes, but without any resin to end. Sugar Ray more than Tyson.

For what it promises, never really gets there.

Pale yellow body that's much closer to clear than I expected. Definitely some floaties in suspension, but the liquid itself is murky-clear. Nice puffy egg-white head. Eventually settles out, but decent lacing.

Nose is immediately bursting with bright sweet tropical fruits... pineapple in particular. There's some pine bitterness behind it.

A touch sweet for me, but not overwhelmingly so. Blended tropical fruits with a nice clean piney bitterness to balance. Pineapple and mango and almost like a banana smoothie (but not like banana esters... more just like a tropical smoothie that uses banana to thicken and make it creamy). Like I said, it finishes with that good piney bitterness to remind that yes indeed, this is an IPA, but it doesn't jump into bonkersville to try and compensate. I am repeatedly struck by just how... well made this feels. Like everything just clicks just right and fits in to where it gets in.

One of the softest smoothest bodied IPAs I've had. Just creamy smoothe easy to drink with appropriate carbonation and just enough of a linger bitter finish.

This is not the profile of IPA I usually enjoy. It feels like it's just this side of the NE style, which I really don't get into. But this is just so incredibly well made and is just really really a joy to drink. Incredibly pleasantly surprised, I'm a big big fan of this one and will subsequently seek out any Boombox brews I come across in the future.

 

 

 

 

Poured from a 473ml can.
A: Pours a hazy yellow/orange with a thick white head with plenty of sticky lacing.
S: A strong dank wet grass hop nose some pine resin and floral/citrus notes.
T: Pine and hops .
F: A pretty dry finish IPA ,medium body with a good malt/hop balance.
O: A real nice off clear IPA.

 

 

Can: Poured a pale cloudy yellow color ale with a medium size foamy head with OK retention and light lacing. Aroma of citrusy and piney hops notes with nice floral undertones. Taste is a nice mix of piney and citrusy floral undertones notes with hints of residual sugar, some residual yeast notes with light dry bitterness. Body is full with good carbonation. Enjoyable but lacking some balance.