Time Bomb
Branch and Blade Brewing
- From:
- Branch and Blade Brewing
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9.6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 8.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 12, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 14, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by SawDog505 from New Hampshire
4.42/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
4.42/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
Poured into a 13 oz Tired Hands Teku glass canned on 7/12/18. Pours a slightly hazy orange red with a massive 2 plus finger sticky off white head that leaves plenty of thick rings of lace as it slowly settles into a thin layer bubbles. 4.5
Smell is apricot, candied sugar, tangerine, honeydew, pine resin, and grapefruit. 4.25
Taste follows bold apricot and candied sugar lead the way, tangerine slides in next with some mellon, pine, and grapefruit. 4.5
Mouthfeel is big, gentle carbonation and that is the way I like my NEDIPAs, sticky from the insane amount of fresh hops, and at 9.6% ABV goes down way too easy. 4.75
Overall this is a really tasty beer, these breweries keep popping up and brewing some high quality stuff, I will be watching this brewery also.4.25
Aug 12, 2018Smell is apricot, candied sugar, tangerine, honeydew, pine resin, and grapefruit. 4.25
Taste follows bold apricot and candied sugar lead the way, tangerine slides in next with some mellon, pine, and grapefruit. 4.5
Mouthfeel is big, gentle carbonation and that is the way I like my NEDIPAs, sticky from the insane amount of fresh hops, and at 9.6% ABV goes down way too easy. 4.75
Overall this is a really tasty beer, these breweries keep popping up and brewing some high quality stuff, I will be watching this brewery also.4.25
Reviewed by GratefulBeerGuy from New Hampshire
3.71/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
On tap and from a four pack of pint cans. Triple IPA 9.6 % abv.
Crazy hazy, totally opaque golden/yellow/orange colors. Fat and fluffy white dome. Sticks around big and chunky.
Thick, heady aroma of dense tropical/citrus/pine/tangy fruits and dense earth. Pretty intense nose....and seriously boozy.
The flavor and feel is full and smooth, heady is the best word. Loaded with deep layers of fruity hops, that have a decent bitter kick, earthy finish. Mango, peaches, pineapple and grapefruit. Sooo dense. Complexity is high in both feel and flavor. BUT the 9.6% abv in this one is SErIOusly booozy and hot. Vodka style.
A true sipper, heady brew, just a bit too big for my taste. Dial it back a bit, especially the boozy effect. Otherwise ....wow.
Jul 15, 2018Crazy hazy, totally opaque golden/yellow/orange colors. Fat and fluffy white dome. Sticks around big and chunky.
Thick, heady aroma of dense tropical/citrus/pine/tangy fruits and dense earth. Pretty intense nose....and seriously boozy.
The flavor and feel is full and smooth, heady is the best word. Loaded with deep layers of fruity hops, that have a decent bitter kick, earthy finish. Mango, peaches, pineapple and grapefruit. Sooo dense. Complexity is high in both feel and flavor. BUT the 9.6% abv in this one is SErIOusly booozy and hot. Vodka style.
A true sipper, heady brew, just a bit too big for my taste. Dial it back a bit, especially the boozy effect. Otherwise ....wow.
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
3.78/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
What better way to get into a brand new brewery than with a brand new beer? And by brand new I mean SUPER fresh... this came off the canning line just yesterday. Holy crap! Time Bomb is a 9.6% DIPA dry-hopped with Ella. I've had some mixed experiences with this hop before, especially regarding its use in IPAs. I think that, in theory, it's a really cool hop, but its strange spice profile does not always seem to work well with styles that depend on its less-evocative citrus elements, in my experience anyway. Let's see how this small brewery does with this!
Pours a turbid, hazy orange color with a thin, almost nonexistent head. Alright, not the best start... I would've definitely liked to see some better foam formation upon pouring this one, but at least there is some really sticky, solid lace as it sips. I like the color here, and the juicy appearance is certainly well-rendered with this beer, but this needs a little work to stand apart from the crowd.
The nose is very unique and interesting, but I'm also not sure it's exactly what I want out of a beer like this. Black pepper, green onion/green pepper, mango flesh, gooseberry and passion fruit with some lighter notes of grass clippings and ethanol toward the back. Super weird. I wish there were more juicy, citrusy notes and perhaps some heftier tropical leanings, but this does bring out some truly strange elements that I find intriguing. Not spectacular, but... like I mentioned above, I find Ella to be weird in bigger hoppy beers. I think its spice notes and peppery elements belong in saisons and lighter-bodied pilsners... but, what do I know?
The flavor is very intense, starting off with grapefruit and orange flavors which quickly meld with grassy, oniony notes, mango, passion fruit, white grape juice and more spicy pepper elements. More than a little vegetal, with some intense hits of ethanol following up in the finish. This is reminding me of some stuff I had a few years ago with Equinox hops (now called Ekuanot). I like it a little better than most of those because I like the slightly juicier mid-palate going on, and the recipe is built solidly due to the brewers' forethought to actually put some balancing maltier characteristics in there. Still, I don't think the flavors really coalesce into something consistent and impressive to me. I enjoy sipping on this one but likely wouldn't ever really want to revisit it.
The feel is about on-par with what I expected for a near-10% IPA... heavier bodied than most in it weight class, though, likely due to oats or wheat in the grist in order to get that hazy tone to the appearance. Carbonation is mild/moderate and there's a solid oily slickness toward the end of each sip. As I mentioned, there is some sweetness here, but the finish is, for the most part, pretty dry; the malt is relegated to the middle portion of each sip, so there's a good balance to what's happening here. I wish I liked it more, but it's probably just not really for me.
Jul 14, 2018Pours a turbid, hazy orange color with a thin, almost nonexistent head. Alright, not the best start... I would've definitely liked to see some better foam formation upon pouring this one, but at least there is some really sticky, solid lace as it sips. I like the color here, and the juicy appearance is certainly well-rendered with this beer, but this needs a little work to stand apart from the crowd.
The nose is very unique and interesting, but I'm also not sure it's exactly what I want out of a beer like this. Black pepper, green onion/green pepper, mango flesh, gooseberry and passion fruit with some lighter notes of grass clippings and ethanol toward the back. Super weird. I wish there were more juicy, citrusy notes and perhaps some heftier tropical leanings, but this does bring out some truly strange elements that I find intriguing. Not spectacular, but... like I mentioned above, I find Ella to be weird in bigger hoppy beers. I think its spice notes and peppery elements belong in saisons and lighter-bodied pilsners... but, what do I know?
The flavor is very intense, starting off with grapefruit and orange flavors which quickly meld with grassy, oniony notes, mango, passion fruit, white grape juice and more spicy pepper elements. More than a little vegetal, with some intense hits of ethanol following up in the finish. This is reminding me of some stuff I had a few years ago with Equinox hops (now called Ekuanot). I like it a little better than most of those because I like the slightly juicier mid-palate going on, and the recipe is built solidly due to the brewers' forethought to actually put some balancing maltier characteristics in there. Still, I don't think the flavors really coalesce into something consistent and impressive to me. I enjoy sipping on this one but likely wouldn't ever really want to revisit it.
The feel is about on-par with what I expected for a near-10% IPA... heavier bodied than most in it weight class, though, likely due to oats or wheat in the grist in order to get that hazy tone to the appearance. Carbonation is mild/moderate and there's a solid oily slickness toward the end of each sip. As I mentioned, there is some sweetness here, but the finish is, for the most part, pretty dry; the malt is relegated to the middle portion of each sip, so there's a good balance to what's happening here. I wish I liked it more, but it's probably just not really for me.
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