Window To Vertere (2022)
West Coast Brewing
- From:
- West Coast Brewing
- Japan
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.18 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 07, 2023
- Added:
- Apr 07, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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WCB × VERTERE Collaboration!
Tis’ the season for collaboration once again. After a successful release (and the discovery of the mystical “window” in 2021) the same portal was left unchecked until only recently. Our Hop Dude buddies at VERTERE have reported disturbing incidents on their side of the vortex - Dark Hop characters infiltrating and defiling the “window”, in an attempt perhaps to further stretch and expand their influence on the VERTERE world. To match this looming threat our Alchemist and Hop Heroes have conspired to create a Hazy concoction in hopes to pushback against the Nemesis’ evil designs.
In Window to VERTERE 2022 we team up with our fellow hop wizards in Okutama for a collaboration unlike any we have attempted previous. Using identical grain bills and hop additions at each location, WCB has conjured this into a massive Hazy Double IPA, where VERTERE has chosen the dark side (!) and soured their batch to create a Sour Double IPA. The WCB offering is packed with aroma and flavor, bursting with pineapple, grape, pear and tropical fruit. We hope you can get your hands on both to experience firsthand just how different (yet similar?!) these two brews are, and are excited for the future of this “window”, now that we can finally get to doing what makes brewing beer truly exceptional - discovery and collabs with the good dudes ??
Tis’ the season for collaboration once again. After a successful release (and the discovery of the mystical “window” in 2021) the same portal was left unchecked until only recently. Our Hop Dude buddies at VERTERE have reported disturbing incidents on their side of the vortex - Dark Hop characters infiltrating and defiling the “window”, in an attempt perhaps to further stretch and expand their influence on the VERTERE world. To match this looming threat our Alchemist and Hop Heroes have conspired to create a Hazy concoction in hopes to pushback against the Nemesis’ evil designs.
In Window to VERTERE 2022 we team up with our fellow hop wizards in Okutama for a collaboration unlike any we have attempted previous. Using identical grain bills and hop additions at each location, WCB has conjured this into a massive Hazy Double IPA, where VERTERE has chosen the dark side (!) and soured their batch to create a Sour Double IPA. The WCB offering is packed with aroma and flavor, bursting with pineapple, grape, pear and tropical fruit. We hope you can get your hands on both to experience firsthand just how different (yet similar?!) these two brews are, and are excited for the future of this “window”, now that we can finally get to doing what makes brewing beer truly exceptional - discovery and collabs with the good dudes ??
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by AzfromOz from Australia
4.18/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
From the Carwyn "One" subscription pack in March 2023. Drunk in April that year.
L: Thick pineapple juice yellow with a sherbet-looking, fluffy white head. Unsurprisingly, no carbonation visible is visible through the haze.
S: Archetypal tropical fruit bowl - pineapple, guava, papaya and strawberry. Very 2023.
T: Invariably with these beers the taste follows the nose, with added hop kick. This is quite a bitter beer, and there's a strong dieselly shampoo note over everything but it fits the beer really well.
M: A pillowy mouthfeel matches the flavour profile - I find that the dieselly shampoo taste note is enjoyable when paired with a thick body, while it's quite off-putting with a thinner beer. This one nails the balance.
O: At just over four months old and having travelled all the way from Japan to my glass, this double NEIPA has held up remarkably well. A really enjoyable drink, with a strawberry note that I don't recall from other NEIPAs. I'd love to compare this to a fresh version.
Cheers!
#222
Apr 07, 2023L: Thick pineapple juice yellow with a sherbet-looking, fluffy white head. Unsurprisingly, no carbonation visible is visible through the haze.
S: Archetypal tropical fruit bowl - pineapple, guava, papaya and strawberry. Very 2023.
T: Invariably with these beers the taste follows the nose, with added hop kick. This is quite a bitter beer, and there's a strong dieselly shampoo note over everything but it fits the beer really well.
M: A pillowy mouthfeel matches the flavour profile - I find that the dieselly shampoo taste note is enjoyable when paired with a thick body, while it's quite off-putting with a thinner beer. This one nails the balance.
O: At just over four months old and having travelled all the way from Japan to my glass, this double NEIPA has held up remarkably well. A really enjoyable drink, with a strawberry note that I don't recall from other NEIPAs. I'd love to compare this to a fresh version.
Cheers!
#222
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