The Entity
Definitive Brewing Company
- From:
- Definitive Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
Ranked #715 - ABV:
- 10.1%
- Score:
- 93
Ranked #4,617 - Avg:
- 4.3 | pDev: 4.19%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 08, 2024
- Added:
- Feb 16, 2020
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
The Entity is our very first Triple IPA. This formidable beer checks in at a healthy 10.1% ABV and was brewed with Citra, Moasaic, Enigma, and Topaz hops. It tastes and smells like a tropical storm of guava, fruit salad, and fields of pineapple plants.
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Reviewed by GratefulBeerGuy from New Hampshire
4.65/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.65/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
TRIPLE IPA
The Entity
Definitive Brewing Company IPA - Triple New England
Just as the tasting notes say: super tropical fruity hops are complex and bold. A smooth, velvety and creamy feel is luxurious. Triple Dry-hopped is both tasted and felt with lingering earth tines. Chonky hops and big feels. Love this blend of hops.
May 08, 2024The Entity
Definitive Brewing Company IPA - Triple New England
Just as the tasting notes say: super tropical fruity hops are complex and bold. A smooth, velvety and creamy feel is luxurious. Triple Dry-hopped is both tasted and felt with lingering earth tines. Chonky hops and big feels. Love this blend of hops.
Reviewed by brewandbbq from New Hampshire
4.36/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
16oz can dated 11/20/20.
Pours cloudy yellow with an inch of white fluff. Moderate retention and lacing. Candied citrus in the nose with grape, peach, pineapple, and pear. Medium bodied with a soft but tacky mouthfeel. Sugar-dusted tropicals on the palate with minimal malt or bitterness. Pineapple, peach, and grapefruit. Finishes with boozy juice and a bit sweet.
Jan 25, 2021Pours cloudy yellow with an inch of white fluff. Moderate retention and lacing. Candied citrus in the nose with grape, peach, pineapple, and pear. Medium bodied with a soft but tacky mouthfeel. Sugar-dusted tropicals on the palate with minimal malt or bitterness. Pineapple, peach, and grapefruit. Finishes with boozy juice and a bit sweet.
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
4.3/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.3/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This just sounds freaking great, and Definitive have mostly been killing it lately with their hoppy offerings, so I'm really excited to give it a shot. Double-digit ABV, Citra, Mosaic, Enigma, and Topaz hops sounds like such a good combination. Can't wait to sip it.
The pour here is pretty bonkers. I initially gave it a slightly aggressive tilt but it quickly built up with 4+ fingers of intense foam, so I quickly sipped off the top so it wouldn't overflow (I poured it into a 12 oz glass and it's a 16 oz can, so yeah). Jeez. Well, the color and body are a very hazy and essentially-opaque light-medium orange hue with THAT head on top, so if you like the way most modern NEIPAs look, this should do the job for you quite handily. The retention and lacing here are pretty great, with swaths of thick foamy goodness still lingering after five plus minutes in my glass.
Immediately upon bringing this to my nose, I was reminded of another favorite strong IPA from a Maine brewery, Pantless Thunder Goose by Mast Landing Brewing. PTG is hopped with somewhat similar varietals to this (El Dorado, Mosaic, Topaz) and it shows because the nose here is sweet citrus, passion fruit, grassy notes, and tart lychee with undercurrents of mango and pineapple. Freaking fruit salad in a glass, and I'm loving it! The slight herbal and even moderately-dank backing elements really play a big part in delineating this from many big, boozy TIPAs I've had lately. This just smells very vibrant and fun. I'm into it.
Heady flavors of tangelo, pineapple, passion fruit and berries work well with some strong dankness, red currant, wine-like suggestions, and grassy stuff happening here. Very complex with well-hidden ethanol (though it still pops up here and there, for sure, it's just not as obvious as with some other beers over 10%) and a very soft mouthfeel. Honestly, the feel here is my only real issue. It's soft to a fault, kinda, with low carbonation and a body that just drinks heavy and buoyant, lingering for a while even when the hop flavors feel more like a jolt instead of a slow-burn. I think I still prefer the Goose to this, but they are pretty dang similar in my opinion, and I have just really been enjoying Definitive's stuff lately, so I feel the need to be maybe a bit more critical with them just in the interest of trying to be fair. Definitely grab this one if you like your big ol' IPAs thick, dense, and loaded with complex fruity flavors.
Dec 18, 2020The pour here is pretty bonkers. I initially gave it a slightly aggressive tilt but it quickly built up with 4+ fingers of intense foam, so I quickly sipped off the top so it wouldn't overflow (I poured it into a 12 oz glass and it's a 16 oz can, so yeah). Jeez. Well, the color and body are a very hazy and essentially-opaque light-medium orange hue with THAT head on top, so if you like the way most modern NEIPAs look, this should do the job for you quite handily. The retention and lacing here are pretty great, with swaths of thick foamy goodness still lingering after five plus minutes in my glass.
Immediately upon bringing this to my nose, I was reminded of another favorite strong IPA from a Maine brewery, Pantless Thunder Goose by Mast Landing Brewing. PTG is hopped with somewhat similar varietals to this (El Dorado, Mosaic, Topaz) and it shows because the nose here is sweet citrus, passion fruit, grassy notes, and tart lychee with undercurrents of mango and pineapple. Freaking fruit salad in a glass, and I'm loving it! The slight herbal and even moderately-dank backing elements really play a big part in delineating this from many big, boozy TIPAs I've had lately. This just smells very vibrant and fun. I'm into it.
Heady flavors of tangelo, pineapple, passion fruit and berries work well with some strong dankness, red currant, wine-like suggestions, and grassy stuff happening here. Very complex with well-hidden ethanol (though it still pops up here and there, for sure, it's just not as obvious as with some other beers over 10%) and a very soft mouthfeel. Honestly, the feel here is my only real issue. It's soft to a fault, kinda, with low carbonation and a body that just drinks heavy and buoyant, lingering for a while even when the hop flavors feel more like a jolt instead of a slow-burn. I think I still prefer the Goose to this, but they are pretty dang similar in my opinion, and I have just really been enjoying Definitive's stuff lately, so I feel the need to be maybe a bit more critical with them just in the interest of trying to be fair. Definitely grab this one if you like your big ol' IPAs thick, dense, and loaded with complex fruity flavors.
Reviewed by Bierman9 from New Hampshire
4.25/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I picked up a single 16oz can on 23OCT20 ($5.50) and drained it later that day out in The 'Zebo....
Poured a hazy, medium-golden color. Wasn't overly murky like some juicers. A regular pour produced a 1.5" layer of rocky, off-white foam. Head just sat there for a while before ebbing, with A-1 lacing left behind. Had an abundantly fruity aroma, easily noticed. Was rich with mango, pineapple and apricot. Body was medium to medium-plus, with minimal prickle on the tongue.
Tasted of semisweet fruit right off. Had more apricot, pineapple, some tangerine... nice! Was a touch piney and resiny, too, with subtle bitterness in the finish. That was no deal-breaker, though. Solid stuff!! Prosit!
4.25/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2216
Oct 25, 2020Poured a hazy, medium-golden color. Wasn't overly murky like some juicers. A regular pour produced a 1.5" layer of rocky, off-white foam. Head just sat there for a while before ebbing, with A-1 lacing left behind. Had an abundantly fruity aroma, easily noticed. Was rich with mango, pineapple and apricot. Body was medium to medium-plus, with minimal prickle on the tongue.
Tasted of semisweet fruit right off. Had more apricot, pineapple, some tangerine... nice! Was a touch piney and resiny, too, with subtle bitterness in the finish. That was no deal-breaker, though. Solid stuff!! Prosit!
4.25/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2216
Reviewed by BEERMILER12 from Maine
4.55/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.55/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
A: Pours a hazy yellow-orange color with 2 fingers of head that fades down to a nice cap that leaves good lacing
S: Lots of tropical fruit up front along with some lighter citrus. Mostly guava and pineapple
T: Follows the nose. Starts off with waves of tropical fruit and then picks up some lighter citrus and floral notes. Guava, pineapple, and orange stand out. Light bitterness. Finishes with lingering tropical fruit
M: Medium-full bodied with moderate carbonation. On the smoother side
O: A scarily drinkable tropical juice bomb. The low bitterness paired with waves and waves of tropical goodness hide the 10.1% insanely well. Watch yourself with this one. Definitely worth checking out
Jun 11, 2020S: Lots of tropical fruit up front along with some lighter citrus. Mostly guava and pineapple
T: Follows the nose. Starts off with waves of tropical fruit and then picks up some lighter citrus and floral notes. Guava, pineapple, and orange stand out. Light bitterness. Finishes with lingering tropical fruit
M: Medium-full bodied with moderate carbonation. On the smoother side
O: A scarily drinkable tropical juice bomb. The low bitterness paired with waves and waves of tropical goodness hide the 10.1% insanely well. Watch yourself with this one. Definitely worth checking out
Reviewed by SawDog505 from New Hampshire
4.44/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.44/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured into a 16 oz Snulip glass canned on 2/14/20. Pours a very hazy orange with a 2 finger sticky off white head that leaves a bunch of thin lace with excellent retention. 4.5
Smell papaya, melon, orange hard can’t, pineapple, and apricot really pleasant and strong. 4.25
Taste follows really big papaya, orange, melon, pineapple, and apricot really balanced nothing taking over and really easy drinking at 10.1% ABV. 4.5
Mouthfeel is big, with gentle life, a tad sticky but not dry, and goes down really easy. 4.5
Overall this is exactly what I was hoping it would be from this amazing your brewery. 4.5
Feb 16, 2020Smell papaya, melon, orange hard can’t, pineapple, and apricot really pleasant and strong. 4.25
Taste follows really big papaya, orange, melon, pineapple, and apricot really balanced nothing taking over and really easy drinking at 10.1% ABV. 4.5
Mouthfeel is big, with gentle life, a tad sticky but not dry, and goes down really easy. 4.5
Overall this is exactly what I was hoping it would be from this amazing your brewery. 4.5
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