Johnny Valves
Fidens Brewing Company

 

Pours a super cloudy Orange Yellow color with a medium bodied off white colored head that laces the glass a lot on the way down. Smells mainly of orange and grapefruit and a hint of malts in there. Taste is big grapefruit, orange, and some melon at the backend. Super smooth, fresh, nice amount of carbonation, feels lighter than it is and drinks that way. Overall another solid beer from this crew.

 

 

 

Canned on 1/18/22; consumed on 2/1/22

Pours an opaque, glossy, dark sunflower-gold body capped with three fingers of fluffy, dense white foam; great head retention leaves a finger of creamy cap, frothy, moderate collar, and a comprehensive spatter of spotty/webby lacing dotting across the walls of the glass.

Aroma opens with bursts of tangerine cream cut with boggy waves of dank resins, building to a citric tangle highlighting passionfruit and juicy orange dosed with waves of ripe white grape must, while undertones of dank pine and wilted mint further accent depth.

Taste brings boggy white grape must sporting a mossy undertone before delivering a fresh amalgam of papaya, guava, and a peak of tangerine cream resounding over the mid-palate; bready textures remain interwoven to an internet dank, herbal quality as pithy mango revisits semi-sweet tropical tones through the finish.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body with moderate carbonation diffusing slick, somewhat boggy resins and a distant edge of bitterness into the mid-palate; creamy textures in turn develop to a fluffy peak as a juicy glide sparks into the finish.

A stunning display of hop attenuation, expertly marrying the subtleties and contrasts between Nelson, Cascade, and Citra to a deftly dank, subtly fruity, and resinous overload in near-perfect harmony at the absolute highest tier of the style.