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Fidens Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

Canned 3/4, picked up in Albany 3/7 and cracked 3/23 pours glug glug out of the can murky yellow milk with 3 finger head creamy & resilient, head reduced to meringue and stuck on top with delic lattice down the glass. Aroma is peaches, lime. Taste is peaches, pineapple Dum Dums, strawberry Now & Laters, grapefruit bitter tang. Feel is super creamy, soft sweet bitter, hint of chalk into juiciness. Overall superb Fidens, uniquely special to this brewery and a great score! Love it!

Canned on 2/28/24; consumed on 3/25/24

Pours an immensely turbid, milky, dark golden murk capped with a finger and a half of creamy, white foam; solid head retention leaves a finger of cap, slight, frothy collar, and a sparse few strands of soapy lacing clinging to the walls of the glass.

Aroma wafts lychee gummies, mango pith, and orange zest upfront, expanding to creamed peach and papaya as strawberry trails into the slightest waxy white grape tinge on the back end of the bouquet.

Taste opens to grassy resins and juicy clementine, with strawberry accents meeting white peach over the mid-palate as hints of white grape and guava proceed through the back end.

Mouthfeel brings a medium-full body and a choppy fluff of moderate carbonation; chalky subtext invites resinous grit, eventually easing to a soft glide into the back end and leaking with a rounded, juicy finish.

Expansively resinous and loaded with vibrant, tropical detailing, serves as a prime example of a Fidens NEIPA at its expressive yet approachable best.

 

This one pours an extremely hazy, almost milky vivid yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells quite stone fruit heavy, with a drippy and juicy nectarine, orange, peach, and mango sort of thing.

This is pretty prototypical Fidens, with a “heavy” softness – there’s a lot of flavors but it all folds on to the palate in such a soft and delicate way. I get peach, mango, nectarine, orange, and tangerine here – with a very slight bitterness.

This is light bodied, creamy, and super drinkable.

This is yet another very tasty Fidens beer.

 

 

 

 

 

A really lovely NEIPA.