Vacuum Of Space
Hoax Brewing Company
- From:
- Hoax Brewing Company
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 6.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 11, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 29, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.28/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Hoax Brewing Co. "Vacuum Of Space"
16 fl. oz. can coded "21006 15:31:22 DYSON". Sampled on 29 March 2021.
$4.59 @ Kindred Spirits & Wine, Fairfield, CT
Notes via stream of consciousness: The label reads "6.5% ALC/VOL" but their website states that it's 7%. It also says "Sour ale brewed with Pistachios, Coconut, Pineapple, Marshmallow, Cherries, Milk Sugar and Tangerine", and notes that it's contract brewed by Overshores Brewing in East Haven, CT which is also a collective/cooperative brewing space dubbed the "Beeracks". It's poured a hazy kind of orange body with a pink sheen beneath a full head of densely creamy white foam. There are both smaller bubbles and bigger bubbles within the head, and there's some visible particulate in suspension below. The aroma is sweetish, mineralish, fruity, and acidic. I kind of can't believe it but I'm smelling coconut. Looking at the list of additional ingredients that's really the only one that stands out but I can see how the tangerine, pineapple, and cherries are in the fruitiness that's there. On to the taste... holy shit - I actually taste the pistachios! WTF? I definitely get the cherry as well, and to be honest, in both the aroma and flavor I thought I was getting the marshmallow but I wasn't sure. I thought this was going to be either a disaster, a disappointment, or both but it's absolutely not. I have to give them great credit for originality on this one, and for pulling it off. It's so bizarre. On the other hand, if I didn't know what was in it I think I'd only find the coconut, cherry, and tangerine. I'd probably guess that the pistachios were just nuttiness from the malts. So what else? It's not too tart at all, and in fact it's a little sweet. It has a semi-sweet finish but the acidity does eventually dry it. The nuttiness of the pistachios lingers along with the tangerine. In the mouth it's medium bodied and dextrinous with all of the lactose they've added. I'm very sensitive to it and I can feel it and taste it. I'm not fond of it at all but others might like it. It's smooth across the palate with a moderate carbonation level, and that's probably the way it should be so as not to amplify the acidity that's already there but I wonder about that. I'll still say that it's well balanced and rounded. I'm about halfway through my can now and I'm getting a little bored with it but those first few eye-opening sips were well worth it, and I'd certainly drink it again. If you can find this you should certainly give it a try.
Review #7,285
Mar 29, 202116 fl. oz. can coded "21006 15:31:22 DYSON". Sampled on 29 March 2021.
$4.59 @ Kindred Spirits & Wine, Fairfield, CT
Notes via stream of consciousness: The label reads "6.5% ALC/VOL" but their website states that it's 7%. It also says "Sour ale brewed with Pistachios, Coconut, Pineapple, Marshmallow, Cherries, Milk Sugar and Tangerine", and notes that it's contract brewed by Overshores Brewing in East Haven, CT which is also a collective/cooperative brewing space dubbed the "Beeracks". It's poured a hazy kind of orange body with a pink sheen beneath a full head of densely creamy white foam. There are both smaller bubbles and bigger bubbles within the head, and there's some visible particulate in suspension below. The aroma is sweetish, mineralish, fruity, and acidic. I kind of can't believe it but I'm smelling coconut. Looking at the list of additional ingredients that's really the only one that stands out but I can see how the tangerine, pineapple, and cherries are in the fruitiness that's there. On to the taste... holy shit - I actually taste the pistachios! WTF? I definitely get the cherry as well, and to be honest, in both the aroma and flavor I thought I was getting the marshmallow but I wasn't sure. I thought this was going to be either a disaster, a disappointment, or both but it's absolutely not. I have to give them great credit for originality on this one, and for pulling it off. It's so bizarre. On the other hand, if I didn't know what was in it I think I'd only find the coconut, cherry, and tangerine. I'd probably guess that the pistachios were just nuttiness from the malts. So what else? It's not too tart at all, and in fact it's a little sweet. It has a semi-sweet finish but the acidity does eventually dry it. The nuttiness of the pistachios lingers along with the tangerine. In the mouth it's medium bodied and dextrinous with all of the lactose they've added. I'm very sensitive to it and I can feel it and taste it. I'm not fond of it at all but others might like it. It's smooth across the palate with a moderate carbonation level, and that's probably the way it should be so as not to amplify the acidity that's already there but I wonder about that. I'll still say that it's well balanced and rounded. I'm about halfway through my can now and I'm getting a little bored with it but those first few eye-opening sips were well worth it, and I'd certainly drink it again. If you can find this you should certainly give it a try.
Review #7,285
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