Use It Up
Fidens Brewing Company
- From:
- Fidens Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
Ranked #422 - ABV:
- 7.9%
- Score:
- 93
Ranked #3,651 - Avg:
- 4.38 | pDev: 4.34%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 25, 2025
- Added:
- Aug 13, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
93
Outstanding
93
Outstanding
A DIPA using a simple grain bill with Citra in the whirlpool. Dry hopped with Citra and a touch of Simcoe.
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Reviewed by TheIPAHunter from California
4.38/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.38/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Peach colored haze. Nose is freshly made mango juice and a little catty dankness. Taste is mango overload, juice, flesh, and fruit leather. Barely any bitterness. Ridiculously creamy mouthfeel.
Oct 14, 2023
Reviewed by drdiesel9483 from Ohio
4.46/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Look - Looks like thick hazy orange juice just no pulp. White head
Smell - great fruity scent; peaches, tangerine, pineapple, maybe some mango. A little bitterness in there
Taste - Basically nails the same fruits as the scent. barely any bitterness. sweet but not overly sweet. Dank and Juicy
Feel - Medium full body with a medium carbonation, nice mouthfeel
Overall - Really fantastic Hazy. With how much hops you can tell that are in it, I'm really glad I don't get the hop burn.
Aug 28, 2023Smell - great fruity scent; peaches, tangerine, pineapple, maybe some mango. A little bitterness in there
Taste - Basically nails the same fruits as the scent. barely any bitterness. sweet but not overly sweet. Dank and Juicy
Feel - Medium full body with a medium carbonation, nice mouthfeel
Overall - Really fantastic Hazy. With how much hops you can tell that are in it, I'm really glad I don't get the hop burn.
Reviewed by TCgenny from New York
3.94/5 rDev -10%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev -10%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hazy orange with great frothy head, lovely fruit aroma, taste sweet juice with back end dank , soft carbonation great mouth feel, Fidens is really the best in NYS!
May 21, 2023
Reviewed by JamFuel from Sweden
4.88/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.88/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Pours a hazy orange with thick, fluffy head.
Smell is juicy and sweet with notes of gummy candy, mango, pineapple, nectarine and tangerine.
Taste is juicy, sweet and a bit dank. Notes of gummy candy, passionfruit, grapefruit, grapes, mango and some pine. Soft but clear bitterness and deceptively easy to drink.
Mouthfeel is medium to full, chewy, pillowy and well carbonated.
Overall, another fantastic NE DIPA by Fidens.
Apr 12, 2023Smell is juicy and sweet with notes of gummy candy, mango, pineapple, nectarine and tangerine.
Taste is juicy, sweet and a bit dank. Notes of gummy candy, passionfruit, grapefruit, grapes, mango and some pine. Soft but clear bitterness and deceptively easy to drink.
Mouthfeel is medium to full, chewy, pillowy and well carbonated.
Overall, another fantastic NE DIPA by Fidens.
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.17/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
From a 16oz can, stamped 12/08. Served in a spiegelau IPA glass.
Pours a hazy, dull orange juice sort of colour with a finger-plus of soft, beaten egg white-like foam. Retention is pretty good, leaving a thick, sudsy collar a and tattered sheet of foamy lacing.
Nose is faint - a soft, fruity aroma is just barely detectable.
Taste is a little bit of everything: citrusy, berry fruit, earthy-floral and piney. Tasting orange slices, pink grapefruit, sappy pine and perfume, and sticky red berry - whatever that means. Lime (tart, acid) at the end. Dank, sticky, acidic, low bitterness.
Feel is juicy-sticky, medium-light bodied and brightly carbonated. Did I already say sticky?
Overall, a better-than-credible NEIPA but - and maybe it’s just me - I find that I need a Rolaids. Also, the picture on the can is bothering me. It’s like Dylan at the Last Waltz but it looks a little like Leonard Cohen but, really, it doesn’t look like either one of them and I don’t know if ‘use it up’ is supposed to mean something and I don’t know if it’s OK to ding the Overall score for clumsy supposed popular culture references.
Dec 18, 2022Pours a hazy, dull orange juice sort of colour with a finger-plus of soft, beaten egg white-like foam. Retention is pretty good, leaving a thick, sudsy collar a and tattered sheet of foamy lacing.
Nose is faint - a soft, fruity aroma is just barely detectable.
Taste is a little bit of everything: citrusy, berry fruit, earthy-floral and piney. Tasting orange slices, pink grapefruit, sappy pine and perfume, and sticky red berry - whatever that means. Lime (tart, acid) at the end. Dank, sticky, acidic, low bitterness.
Feel is juicy-sticky, medium-light bodied and brightly carbonated. Did I already say sticky?
Overall, a better-than-credible NEIPA but - and maybe it’s just me - I find that I need a Rolaids. Also, the picture on the can is bothering me. It’s like Dylan at the Last Waltz but it looks a little like Leonard Cohen but, really, it doesn’t look like either one of them and I don’t know if ‘use it up’ is supposed to mean something and I don’t know if it’s OK to ding the Overall score for clumsy supposed popular culture references.
Reviewed by Kendo from New York
4.46/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Note: The Crowler I received on 11/11/20 lists the ABV as 8.3% - not the 7.9% listed here on BA.
A: Poured from the crowler into a tulip glass. Body is dirty-golden with a 1.5-finger white head on top, which settles to leave behind lots of foamy, splotchy lace.
S: Nice strong nose of citrus (oranges, orange peel), melon, and ripe peaches.
T: Follows the nose, with juicy citrus - primarily oranges and clementines - the dominant flavor - also some orange-pineapple juice . . . . Touch of apricot and ripe peaches. Cantaloupe and earthy melon rind. Hint of spice and heat on the back end suggests that the 8.3% ABV is being noted and felt.
M: Good creamy and juicy feel. Medium to full in heft. Still, it drinks easy, despite the high alcohol and the weight. Slight chalkiness detracts from the feel a little bit, causing me to knock it down a peg. But this almost feels as good as the Tree House line of DIPAs. That's a hefty compliment to these local brewers.
O: My second beer from these guys - and this one is excellent. Cheers!!
Nov 13, 2020A: Poured from the crowler into a tulip glass. Body is dirty-golden with a 1.5-finger white head on top, which settles to leave behind lots of foamy, splotchy lace.
S: Nice strong nose of citrus (oranges, orange peel), melon, and ripe peaches.
T: Follows the nose, with juicy citrus - primarily oranges and clementines - the dominant flavor - also some orange-pineapple juice . . . . Touch of apricot and ripe peaches. Cantaloupe and earthy melon rind. Hint of spice and heat on the back end suggests that the 8.3% ABV is being noted and felt.
M: Good creamy and juicy feel. Medium to full in heft. Still, it drinks easy, despite the high alcohol and the weight. Slight chalkiness detracts from the feel a little bit, causing me to knock it down a peg. But this almost feels as good as the Tree House line of DIPAs. That's a hefty compliment to these local brewers.
O: My second beer from these guys - and this one is excellent. Cheers!!
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