Hello From O.B.
Vitamin Sea Brewing

 

 

Opaque OJ orange with a solid white foam head.

Juicy and dank with a hint of cornbread malt that emerges as it warms under the sun.

A good NEIPA that manages to be inoffensive towards the tail end of a beer festival.

 

Bringing a little of the West Coast culture to New England beer drinking, brewers of Vitamin Sea select Citra, Simcoe, Amarillo and Strata hops to bridge the gap between fruity, floral, spicy, bitter and herbal flavors in an imperial ipa.

Hello From O.B. pours with a densely packed haze upon a golden peach glow. Once its foamy ivory cap settles, a herb laced fruitiness draws in the nose with citrus, tropical and stone fruit in a soft citronella kind of way. With an early malt profile of honey, cereal, spongecake and cereal, a creamy tone is set.

Persisting with creamy sweetness on the middle palate, a rise of hops capture the radiant and branch-ripe character of tangerine, pink grapefruit, lime, apricot, passionfruit, mango and peach all align on the tastebuds for a suggestion of sherbet before the bitterness shows up. Trending spicy with pine, tea, fresh grass clippings, chive and hemp, a late dive in bitterness remains smooth yet stern.

Full bodied early but finishing malty-dry, the imperial IPA is a great nod to the fruity and juicy flavors of hazy ale while finishing with a great sense of drinkability and refreshment because of the resinous bitterness associated with the beer flavors of the West Coast.