Power Tiles
Definitive Brewing Company

16oz can dated 12/23/20.

Pours cloudy yellow with a half inch head of white. Moderate retention and lacing. Pungently tropical and hoppy in the nose. Candied peach, pineapple, mango, and tangerine. Medium bodied with a tacky, soft mouthfeel.
Pithy, zesty citrus on the palate with peach, pineapple, and white grape. Finishes a bit sweet with minimal malt, a firm bitterness, and a lingering citrus punch.

Pours bright gold with a 2 finger off white dense head that retains well. Aroma is juice tropical, very intense. Taste has pineapple notes up front with a citrus base that lingers i to the finish. Very soft, not bitter, and incredibly no alcohol burn despite being a TIPA at over 10%. Damn impressive! This is a great tasting, great mouthfeel prefect example of a NEIPA.

 

Poured into a 16 oz Nordic pint glass canned on 12/23/2020. Pours a very hazy yellow with a 2 finger sticky white head that leaves thick webs of lace with excellent retention. 4.5

Aroma is guava, ripe melon, tangerine, pineapple, peach, apricot, and grapefruit rind. 4.25

Taste follows bold guava, cantaloupe, mandarin, peach, pineapple, apricot, and white grapefruit. 4.25

Mouthfeel is big, a tad sticky not dry, soft gentle carbonation, and at 10.5% ABV it may drink bigger in flavor and body. 4.5

Overall two of these three breweries on this 3 way Collaboration are ones I drink often, Long Live I have not had much from. This is a really tasty TDH NETIPA that you must try if given the chance. 4.25

I'm no stranger to Definitive at this point, as they're basically my newest go-to brewery when it comes to IPAs, and their triples have been consistently awesome, so I'm really excited for this one in particular, which was brewed alongside collaborators Long Live and Deciduous. The description says that this is triple dry-hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Talus, and Galaxy hops and clocks in at 10.5%. Oh, and it was canned about a week ago. Holy hell yes!

The pour here is a very hazy sunburst orange color with some light "amber-ish" tones to it that surprise me. I had another Definitive IPA with a somewhat similar appearance recently called Cellar Echoes, so it looks like this might be a new "thing" for them. It doesn't have that super-chalky oat-milk looking appearance some NEIPAs do, that's for sure. The head is tight but smallish, with great, consistent sheets of lace developing as it slowly sinks to a half-finger of retentive, bone-white foam. Surface coverage is immaculate and legs are solid, too. Great stuff.

The nose here is unsurprisingly excellent and very multi-faceted. A bit of grassiness and chive upfront leads into papaya, mango, and dankness back-ended by tangelo and blood orange-like sweet citrusy notes. This utilizes a hop called Talus, which is a daughter of Sabro, and which boasts "aromas of pink grapefruit, citrus rinds, dried roses, pine resin, tropical fruits and sage." I'm not sure I get all of those here, but there are other great hops involved anyway so no reason to focus just on that one. I like the Mosaic-driven dankness and light earthiness combined with the fun and punchy, aggressive Galaxy.

On the palate, Power Tiles is gripping and robust with a big flavor of citrus and powerful tropical fruit elements backed up by a striking resinous and bitter finish that keeps this really complex and enjoyable. I pick up ripe mango, guava, and passion fruit upfront with some light spice, florals, pineapple, and complex citrus underpinnings in the mid-palate. Intense dankness and pine resin crossed with some light green onion in the finish. This is some superb, strong stuff with a really stiff and almost tannic/woody flavor and hefty ABV that really comes across as it warms a bit. Feel is rich and generous without being overbearing, and it drinks like a big beer made a bit lighter and airier by a deft hop composition. Definitely recommended... these guys are killing the game!