The Heart Of Chaos
Fidens Brewing Company

 

16 fl. oz. can
Served in a pokal glass

This beer pours a bright orange color and is turbid. It is topped with an inch of tan head that leaves spotty lacing.

Citrus and tropical fruits with hints of melon

Delicious citrus flavor. No bitterness. Hints of melon

Full bodied with a thick and creamy mouthfeel

This is a smooth AF TNEIPA. Great all around

 

 

Look - hazy thick tan yellow nice white head and rimming
Smell - orange grapefruit oat booze
Taste - about the same as the smell but more booze and vanilla, dry bitter finish
Feel - full body medium carb
Overall - incredible

 

Sweet tropical hoppy, slightly malty, white wine grape, orange citrus, and a Mosaic-dank nose on this one! Taste follows with a soft and juicy, tropical hoppy, malty-sweet, and balanced orange-grapefruit citrus bitter finish. For a triple, everything flows together seamlessly...nothing is disjointed or overbearing. The ABV, the malty-sweetness, the hoppy bitterness, the fluffy mouthfeel are all hitting the same note and singing in harmony. Ha! So well done! Fantastic!

From a 16oz can dated 09/28/2023. Densely hazy, straw yellow with a fabulous nose of citrus fruit and hoppy dankness. Pleasing on the palate but, for me, the high abv makes for a little heat on the finish.

Opaque straw to tan yellow with a short but densely bubbly bright white head leaving some solid curtains on the glass.

Tastes like the peppery, toasted sesame seeds I love of nelson but with a contrasting tropicalia via a fluffy body.

Love it.

Pours a very hazy yellow straw color with a fluffy white head that lingers as a ring around the edge of the glass leaves thick patches of lacing on the glass as you enjoy the beer. Gorgeous hazy.

The nose is packed with very dank, juicy citrus aromas of ripe oranges, grapefruit, and passion fruit, as well as gooseberries and green grapes.

The taste is led by all of that juicy citrus, with the ripe oranges and grapefruit most delicious, and the green grapes and gooseberries providing a nice bit of tartness, but this beer is all about the dank and that is directly attributable to the passion fruit, which coats the palate with intense citrus flavors before a bit of creamy oats provides balance at the back of the palate.

The mouthfeel is full and chewy, as expected given the gravity of the beer. It would be very easy for this beer to drift into Cloyingville because of the intense hop profile, but it doesn’t, which is a credit to the brewery, which stands in the same stead as the “big boy” NEIPA breweries. That’s good company.

Canned on 9/26/22; consumed on 10/11/22

Pours a turbid, milky honey-gold body capped with three fingers of dense, sudsy, white foam; good head retention leaves a paper-thin veil of cap, a large, frothy collar, and myriad dispersion of chunky, soapy lacing spread across the walls of the glass.

Aroma shows tinges of sweet dough lingering beneath tangelo and a touch of catty dank, over time cut with zesty lime peel and orange Starbursts while fuzzy apricot meets a resinous prickle on the back end of the bouquet.

Taste presents a level saturation of resins accentuating prickly moss into a deep tropical interlude bursting with mango, papaya, honeydew, and jackfruit, with passionfruit edges easing past the mid-palate as grassy undertones meet grapefruit fading through the finish.

Mouthfeel features a medium-full body and a fluffy,moderate carbonation, with taut texture settling as glossy resins resound through the mid-palate: a coating pseudo-bitterness phases into airy creaminess on the back end, where a bright, juicy hop twang enlivens the finish.

Bombastic saturation veers toward sticky resins, yet remains consistently maintained in a steadied culmination of indulgent hop density; another brilliant overall showing of finesse in high-ABV haze from Fidens.