Born ________ NEIPA
Born Brewing Co.

 

Appearance - Pours a hazy pineapple gold with three fingers of frothy white head that leaves some pleasant puffy lace on the glass.

Smell - citrus, tropical, piney, and floral hops, pineapple, peach, apricot, pine resin, citrus and grapefruit peel, hint of kiwi, bready malts, and earthy yeast.

Taste - citrus, tropical, piney, and floral hops upfront. Then it goes into the pine resin, pineapple, peach, apricot, citrus and grapefruit peel, and hint of kiwi. The bready malts and earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the hops and tropical fruits, and pine resin lingering.

Overall - A bold brew that displays the tropical and pine notes well. A good example of the style and highly drinkable.

473ml can - a 'double dry-hopped NEIPA'. The conceit here is that we are all 'Born_____', as in fill in your own damned blank. Blankety-blank, blank blank.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some stellar banded and webbed lace around the glass as it evenly sinks out of sight.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some orange, lemon, and white grapefruit citrus peel, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, faint wet stone paths, and more leafy, weedy, and resinous piney hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, mixed domestic citrus rind, some additional pineapple and kiwi exotic fruity notes, a damp minerality, and more earthy, musky, and dank piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and dead-on smooth, with a wee airy creaminess quickly evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, citrus, and forest floor detritus all making like old friends and carrying on way too long into the lingering night. As it should be.

Overall - this is a genial enough offering from this 'née Colorado, est. Calgary' brewing concern. As a fellow American/Canadian citizen, I can appreciate that, to a certain degree, and will thus pontificate a bit further upon it as this day slowly fills in the blanks for me.