Fresh Tendrils
Altered State Brewing Company
- From:
- Altered State Brewing Company
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Hazy Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.21 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 28, 2021
- Added:
- Sep 28, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.21/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
No canning date (released on 9/2/21, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 9/26/21
Pours a near-turbid, pale gold body capped with a slight finger of creamy, off-white foam; decent head retention leaves a slim veil of cap along with a thin, frothy ring of lacing and a bespeckled spread of spotty lacing across the walls of the glass.
Aroma opens with a soft and citric twang of grapefruit and orange zest mingling before fresh melon; floral papaya offers a sweetness tamed by violet petals, continually evolving with guava nectar enmeshed in soft, grassy resins.
Taste shows mossy hops as an earthier contrast to silky melon upfront before guava sweetness is leveled with a brighter, citric undertone of orange peel over the mid-palate; on the back end, underripe pineapple rushes grassy resins with a tropical twist for a steady balance to the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a body on the fuller side of medium, sporting a silky texture, almost creamy, and with a lower carbonation nearing flatness; resinous oils scrape the mid-palate into the back end, peaking with an encroaching gritty bitterness beneath a semi-juicy, resinous overlay on the finish.
In many ways sacrificing texture for an effortless, powerful array of vivid hop structure, this one brings the bombastic nature of the TIPA to a welcome chaotic neutral; a clean, unlikely balance derived within a style so often desperate for just that.
Sep 28, 2021Pours a near-turbid, pale gold body capped with a slight finger of creamy, off-white foam; decent head retention leaves a slim veil of cap along with a thin, frothy ring of lacing and a bespeckled spread of spotty lacing across the walls of the glass.
Aroma opens with a soft and citric twang of grapefruit and orange zest mingling before fresh melon; floral papaya offers a sweetness tamed by violet petals, continually evolving with guava nectar enmeshed in soft, grassy resins.
Taste shows mossy hops as an earthier contrast to silky melon upfront before guava sweetness is leveled with a brighter, citric undertone of orange peel over the mid-palate; on the back end, underripe pineapple rushes grassy resins with a tropical twist for a steady balance to the finish.
Mouthfeel brings a body on the fuller side of medium, sporting a silky texture, almost creamy, and with a lower carbonation nearing flatness; resinous oils scrape the mid-palate into the back end, peaking with an encroaching gritty bitterness beneath a semi-juicy, resinous overlay on the finish.
In many ways sacrificing texture for an effortless, powerful array of vivid hop structure, this one brings the bombastic nature of the TIPA to a welcome chaotic neutral; a clean, unlikely balance derived within a style so often desperate for just that.
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