NEIPA IV
Odd Company Brewing

250ml glass at the taproom in the old Oliver Exchange. An iteration made with the addition of the Hallertau Blanc varietal, due to the bargaining power (or lack thereof) in being a new, small brewing concern.

This beer appears a murky, medium golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some random ocean plume pattern lace around the glass as things slowly progress.

It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, lush domestic citrus flesh, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness. The taste is gritty and biscuity pale malt, some overaged lemon and lime peel tartness, flinty stone notes, and more earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-tingling frothiness the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of hop astringency perhaps not making nice with the neighborhood watch here. It finishes trending dry, the hops pushing the lingering envelope.

Overall - this is certainly a decently rendered version of the style, nice and crisp and easy enough to put back. No sign of the near 2 points of elevated wowee sauce, which is always a neat trick if you can pull it off.