Haze Lord
New Level Brewing

very well balanced beer with citrus notes and a nice touch of pine not easily found in NEIPA's. The low alcohol is no problem for me, as it's the taste that counts. This in fact makes it it super crush-able and I could see this happening on patio nearby if not my own deck. Fantastic offering will seek out more and destroy!!

Appearance - Pours a hazy copper gold with three fingers of frothy white head.

Smell - mild citrus and tropical hops, citrus and orange peel, hint of mango, pine resin, grapefruit peel, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.

Taste - mild citrus, tropical, and piney hops. The citrus and orange peel, hint of mango,pine resin and grapefruit peel follow suit. The bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the mild hops and fruits lingering.

Overall - A brew that is more suited to the APA style versus New England IPA style. However, since this is classified as a New England IPA, it falls flat in terms of dominance from the tropical fruits. A easy drinking brew nonetheless.

 

Definitely more of a NE pale than an IPA, as mentioned in a previous review. Overall, this is a well crafted brew. Nice mix of malt and citrus, with a creamy mouthfeel. Not quite on par with Blindman’s NE Pale, but definitely worth trying again.

 

 

473ml can - more of a NE-style pale ale, given the ABV, but whatever.

This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent streaky cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it steadily bleeds away.

It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, a hard water flintiness, and more understated earthy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, mixed domestic citrus rind, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and rather smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the complex malt and general frooty essences predominating.

Overall - this comes across as a well-rendered version of the style (the one mentioned earlier, that is). Pleasantly hoppy, with very little attendant bitterness, which seems to be all the rage these days. Anyway, easy to throw back, and certainly worth checking out, IMHO.