Vertigo
E9 Brewing Co.

 

This is back again at a slightly lower ABV. Pours a clear amber with enthusiastic foam in the Tuborg Pilsner glass. Inviting aroma of honeydew melon, celery, and pine. The taste is sweet and fruity to start. It's not overly sweet, and the mild acidic finish takes care of that. Flavors of citrus, plum, cake, and an un-placeable fruity oddity that is quite nice. It's spritzy, a little sharp, finishes fruity with the fragrance lingering in the nose. Overall a different and more friendly hoppy brew. From the 16 oz can purchased at Town & Country market. No apparent date.

a super easy drinking and unique ipa here, softly hazy, as fresh as can be, and really another gem from these guys, i am looking for their cans every time i go to the beer store now, they have won me over with beers like this. glowing yellow brew, delicate looking under a frothing and rising white head that dissipates slowly, frosted looking not thick and cloudy. it smells and tastes very herbal from these hops, whatever they are, but also kind of tropical as it warms and later on, things like mango and orange pulp, coconut flesh, even green grape and kiwi, but its very dry, has some grain balance, and a clean fermentation profile. as it warms i get lemongrass and more coconut, a light pear note too, the hops seem unique to me, maybe sort of new zealand, but there is a little higher alpha thing to this too that comes on late, juicy melon and fresh flowers stay the whole time too though. very dry, a pillowy feel, wheat and oats likely in the mash, and great carbonation, this seems so refined in terms of quality. i know the hot thing to do right now is make a new hazy every week with a huge dry hopping, put it in a silver pint can, slap on a loudly colored label and send it to market with a heaping scoop of hype, and this really pretty much is that, maybe minus the self generated hype, but when the beers are this unique and good every time, its hard to gripe about the formula. these guys are absolutely killing it!

 

 

Pint can poured in to a nonic glass. No can dating.

Look- Hazy, golden amber color, large pillowy off-white head with great retention and thick lacing. moderate carbonation streaming as it sits.

Smell- Huge green grape and peach, citrus (grapefruit, lemon and lime), a bit of melon, tropical fruit and gooseberry, light pine and light white pepper, bready malt and other spicy/herbal notes.

Taste- Grapes, gooseberry and peach dominate. Light tropical fruit and melon, almost no pine or hop bite.

Feel- Medium bodied, somewhat crisp yet fairly sweet, pretty well balanced. Moderate carbonation on the tongue.

O- E9 knocked this one out of the park. Going back to pick up a few more cans before it's gone for the season.