Starhops 64
Analog Brewing

473ml can - a 'Galactic Double IPA', brought to us by Hops McGalaxy, who shall battle the 'Thirst'. Man, it's a good thing that the stuff inside the packaging from these nerds is usually pretty good.

This beer pours a sludgy, dark apricot yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some random chunky lace around the glass as it quickly wafts off.

It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, bright orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, further indistinct tropical fruity notes, some stoney flintiness, and plain earthy, weedy, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus flesh, some pineapple, kiwi, and mango exotic fruitiness, a damp minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and sticky-sticky piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of hoppy intransigence maybe not playing all that nicely with the neighbourhood children here. It finishes off-dry, that big-ass juiciness headlining the lingering show.

Overall - yup, if it wasn't already patently clear, what we have on our hands is a big, brash, NEDIPA, full of flavour. It's also deceptively easy to put back, though I'm sure that the 16-proof booze quotient will catch up to me - later, rather than sooner.