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Phase Three Brewing Company

16oz can, dated 07.02.2025, poured into a 16oz tumbler glass. Enjoyed on 07.21.2025, reviewed from Tasting Journal.

The beer pours a bright orange color, hazy and turbid, gold and light amber hues, cloudy chunks visible in the glass, fluffy and tall white head, good retention and lacing. The aroma is of bright tropical fruits, very fresh and fragrant, herbal tea, green hop, earthy pine, some candied hop sweetness, light dough, and mineral water. The flavors are great, super juicy and bright tropical fruits, orange citrus, peach, and berry fruits, lightly green hop, mild pine, dank weed, grassy, floral, a touch of sweet candied hop, sweet yeast, pale dough, and mineral water. The mouthfeel is good, coating, creamy, smooth medium body with a full finish that is dry and crisp.

Verdict: A really great hazy IPA from Phase Three. Bright, tropical, super juicy and fresh, dank and earthy but balanced so well.

Appearance: Pours a somewhat cloudy golden color with a two finger head; excellent retention and webs of lacing

Smell: Pineapple, melon and tangerine

Taste: Pineapple and tangerine forward with some melon flavors underneath; a moderate level of bitterness emerges, with the swallow, bringing a slightly dank and herbal pithy aspect

Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied and creamy with moderate to high carbonation

Overall: Very much in the NE IPA camp, this is nice but not really distinctive in any way - that's not a bad thing, to be honest

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can pour into frosted chalice. Plenty of frothy foam, lacing web-like, and icicling.

Mango-orangy hue, hazy. Sweet tropical aromas on nose. Taste most delicious with velvety feel on palate.
Florals abound with light Citra, pineapple, passion fruits. A subtle wee bit of hop on finish. Phase three makes most excellent IPA'S. This is a suberb winner.

 

 

 

I hear the wheat and booze portion of the reviews here. This was an amazing oddball. I thoroughly enjoyed tasting I must admit as it too time to characterize. Those flavors I finally settled on as lagery! This tastes like another great Phase Three or Hop Butcher hazy was blended 50/50 with a vibrant mainstay lager like Corona! This idea really worked and I loved the contrast even though I am not a fan of lagers. Bravo Phase Three for breaking the mold!

 

 

Tasted in a tumbler from draft at Lake Zurich Brewing Company on April 17, 2019. Double IPA brewed with Citra, El Dorado and Galaxy hops. Smooth, creamy body, loaded with citrus and tropical fruit aromas and flavors.

 

Turbid and hazy dirty yellow with two fingers of white foam, good lacing. Smell has green and nutty hops with pineapple, orange, and herbs with some booze. Yikes in the taste, super nutty more than anything, with hop burn, vodka like booze, but does have soft peach, tangerine and pineapple. Feel is great until the burn, too bad

World Class!