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Short Throw Brewing

 

Overall this is a lush, super-sweet sipping fruit cocktail with high octane alcohol. Pours a moderately hazy amber with exuberant foam in the New Belgium snifter. Powerful aroma of citrus and papaya with some resins. Tastes of pineapple, canned peaches, and orange-banana juice. Bitter finish. Hot on the tongue.

Quite sugary like orange marmalade. Bitter grapefruit peel aftertaste and significant acidity help counteract the sweetness. This is contract brewed by Twelve Percent Beer Project in North Haven, CT. From the 16 oz can "PKGD 06/26/20" and purchased on the West Coast.

 

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on July 20, 2020.

 

 

 

can into glass
Med-light golden chalky orange with minimal head. Malted tangerine peel with spice in the aroma. Spiced mango with some sharpness in the taste. Medium heavy bodied. The finish has a refreshing citrus note, with a good fading bite.

 

 

 

 

 

16oz can. Poured out a cloudy, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It left sticky rings of lace on the glass. It smelled of grapefruit, mango, orange, caramel and pine. Sweet tropical fruit taste with toasted caramel and a sharp bitterness.

 

PKGD 06/26/20 stamped on bottom of can. Poured into a Samuel Adams Perfect Pint.

A: Arnold Palmer hue with 1-finger off-white foamy head with decent retention and free-form thick band of lacing.

S: Aroma is soft pineapple, candied orange, guava, and lime.

T: Flavor has a bit more herbal.herbal undertones but still the citrus and fruity esters dominate with overripe pineapple, peach, guava, orange, and fruit punch with heavy fruity, cotton candy esters. Very low bitterness, probably a bit too low with all the sweet fruitness. Alcohol is hidden despite reports that this beer is 10% ABV.

M: Mouthful is soft and high drinkable, body not too full and carbonation is a shade under medium.

O: I wish the bitterness was increased about 10-15% to give this a little more edge to the flavor, but nonetheless a very good TIPA in the NEIPA style with blasts of fruitiness and well-hidden high ABV.

 

Hazy orange color with a 2 finger white head that leaves small patches of lacing.

Faint orange and pineapple on the nose.

The flavor is stronger than the nose. Powdered sugared orange and pineapple sherbet. Sweet but not cloying. Slight pithy bitterness on the back end helps balance.

Medium-thick mouthfeel with low, prickly carbonation.

This drinks pretty easy for such a big beer. The hop profile makes it difficult to identify specific flavors for me. Still, it’s a nice beer and fairly enjoyable. I would have again.

Deep, cloudy orange and tangerine colored body; dense and creamy white head. Dank and citrus-like smells; powdered sugar; citrus rind pith. An interesting taste mix of orange and grapefruit; slow building yet ultimately intense hop bitterness, the same with the alcohol presence. Heavy body; soft and velvety; fairly dry; big alcohol warmth.

For being a hazy triple IPA, this beer is pretty well balanced. I like that the hops and alcohol don't hammer you, especially right away, although they do develop a bold presence towards the end of each sip.