Stabbo Collabo
Short Throw Brewing

Pretty nice 16oz hazy offering from Short Throw - deep, rich opaque orange with a yellow-ish cap of lacing. Ripe tropical fruit, dankness, fruity hops, passion fruit. Good stuff.

Cloudy orangey amber brew with plenty of suds and foam in the New Belgium snifter. This smells funny to me-- like cookies spiced with one of the wash day miracles. Quite a lush mouthfeel in the Orange Julius vein. Citrus taste, quite sweet, but acidic finish. More drinkable than many in the hazy realm but still goopy and fruit-sogged. From the 16 oz can purchased on the West Coast. I see this is another of the brands brewed at the Twelve Percent Beer Project facility.

 

Can from Thirsty Pug
Recommended from group of 12% Breweries: Connecticut

 

Canned on 11/22/21; consumed on 12/8/21

Pours a turbid, glossy, dirty orange body capped with multiple fingers of fluffy, soapy, eggshell-white foam; excellent head retention leaves over a finger of rocky cap, a moderate, creamy collar, and a comprehensive array of webby/spotty lacing caked across the walls of the glass.

Aroma opens to bright lime and the sweeter densities of mango smoothie, a twinge of ripe guava nectar accentuating vivid tropical notes further over the middle as earthier pineapple rind is intertwined with a slightly resinous grapefruit and mossy quality toward the back end of the bouquet.

Taste features pineapple with intermittent wisps of bready malt upfront before engaging a whipped lime compote and grassy mango over the mid-palate; guava flesh on the back end edges toward fading hints of kiwi skins on the finish.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body with a fluffy, moderate carbonation, creamy into the mid-palate as a spritzy, mineralic grit lingers in the backdrop; slick resins on the back end meet a juicy peak enlivening the finish while maintaining a decent heft past the swallow.

Vivid and ripe, with a steadily coolness in character that belies its occasional resinous bitterness, this one succeeds in pulling an intensely accentuated tropical spectrum from this hop profile to the overarching benefit of the beer as a whole.