12% Brewers Series: Tunnel Vision
Twelve Percent Beer Project

This has all the looks of a wheat/oats backed NEIPA. There's the stark white foamy head and the dull and dense dirty blond color. This visual was achieved by pouring the contents of a pint can into a clear glass Imperial pint mug. The aroma is hoppy, both citrusy and piney, with a bread baking sweetness. Neither character could be considered pronounced. It drinks softly and almost too thinly. The hops bring a full flavor that's never too bitter, basically what this style strives to achieve. The hop transition toward dry and bitter at the finish is a subtle pleasant one. Standard for this style, especially those barley malt lacking, there's only sparse and irregular glass lacing. Nothing great to be had here, nor is there anything wrong. It’s worth a try, but unlikely to become a must have for most.

 

 

Exceptionally nice NE style Pale Ale. Has all the requisites for a very tasty easy sipping IPA… but comes in at a modest under 6%. Wow. Nice job!
Decently smooth considering malt bill can’t be too high.
Would expect this to be a a really nice draft beer considering how well the canned version presented itself.
Big thumbs up to Sean Piel!
Will look for his name in future.

 

A: Pours a slightly milky murky pale to medium yellow in color with moderate amounts of fine active visible carbonation and moderate honey + pale burnt orange + bright orange + bright yellow + pale golden yellow colored highlights. The beer has a three finger tall dense creamy sudsy foamy off-white head that reduces to a couple of medium sized patches of thick film each covering approximately 15% of the surface of the beer surrounded by a large patch of mottled very thin film covering the remainder of the surface of the beer and a medium thick ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate to significant amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Slightly stronger than moderate aromas of juicy citrus/grapefruit + citrus/lime + tropical/passionfruit hops as well as light to moderate aromas of pine hops over the top of light to moderate aromas of biscuit + wheat + oat malts with a light amount of sugary sweetness.

T: Upfront there are light to moderate flavors of biscuit + wheat + oat malts with a light amount of sugary sweetness. That is followed by light to moderate flavors of pine hops. Finally there are slightly heavier than moderate flavors of juicy citrus/grapefruit + citrus/lime + tropical/passionfruit hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which fades away pretty quickly leaving light to moderate lingering citrus + pine hop flavors.

M: Just shy of medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Light to moderate amounts of creamy soft/fluffiness mid-body with a light to moderate amount of dryness in the finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a decently creamy soft/fluffy mouthfeel which is quite refreshing. Enjoyable though slightly more old school hop profile with the use of Citra and Simcoe.