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Brujos Brewing

 

 

 

On tap at Belmont Station today. Have had several beers from this brewery but have so far been underwhelmed. It would appear that about to change.

The beer pours a light, hazy golden amber color, looking more like a wit Bier than an American dipa. Retention and lacing are outstanding. On the nose I get considerable tropical fruit, with some light underlying darkness. This beer smells great. As good as it smells, this beer is even better in the palate. There's plenty of tropical fruit (by the boatload), but I love how dense and rich this is. Yet it's not heavy or overpowering. Alcohol is very well integrated into the flavor profile. You can sense it's up there a bit, but in a good way. There's a hint of bitterness in the finish, which only enhances this beer's drinkability.

Even though the alcohol is up there, this is the sort of beer you want to drink glass after glass after glass. This is excellent stuff and is easily the best dipa I've had in quite some time.

Sunshine yellow haze. Nose pours out of the glass. Intense pine resin, ripe mango, and grapefruit zest. Taste is explosively tropical. Dense mango, pineapple, melon, and peach. Luxurious creamy mouthfeel. A careless whisper of lingering bitterness. Masterful.

a great notion brewer or something from what i am told, cool looking can, looks like something trve would do, almost a little too close to be original, but it looks sharp, and the beer it contains is quality, thanks to my buddy for sharing, i had not heard of this venture before now. a sturdy and hyper modern hazy here, awesome mix of hops, pretty well refined, not as over the top as some of the great notion stuff, but not without some similarities either. the color is milky yellow with an inch of airy white head that leaves nice lace as i drink this down, no real sediment to it, and maybe not super dense for its higher abv, the pale color makes it look lighter than it is. the nose and taste are great, the hop profile is clever, nectaron hops on full display, peachy and juicy, with some lemony citrus in support, a lime note from the galaxy, good combination, and it starts early in the flavor, and there is some sweetness here, almost always is at this strength even when they keep the malt this pale, an almost confectioners sugar thing, which with the fruity and floral hops gives a cool kind of honey note to it, and the hops are extended all the way through a long finish without being either bitter, or more importantly oversaturated and green, bold as this is, its also well refined. for me it could be a touch lighter, under 8% abv and slightly drier with the same hop profile would be an improvement, but its also hard not to be impressed with this, it stands out in a really crowded and fatiguing style space, and its unique enough to be kind of captivating. love the mix of hops in this, and look forward to my next one from brujos, cool first impression here!

edit: this was even better the second time around, perhaps fresher, it feels smoother and cleaner, the hops dont carry any burn, and the fruity layers are brilliant, honeydew and cantaloupe and coconut, along with a ton of stone fruit. frothy and expansive feeling, no real linger, sneaky strong. this is wonderfully good, and i have to improve a couple of scores...

edit: insane that i lost a can of this in the beer fridge, ten months old now and guess what, its still slaps! impossible yes, but here we are, less fade than even seems imaginable, credit to their overall quality, dry and bright, what a beer!

Canned on 8/25/22; consumed on 10/1/22

Pours a turbid, pale gold body, two fingers of fluffy, eggshell-white foam; great head retention, expansive, sudsy collar, myriad spattering of splotchy, soapy lacing strewn across the walls of the glass.

Aromas of peachy dank meet touches of grapefruit coursing over wet grass, leaving waxy resins over the middle to a white grape must and fuzzy guava on the back end, while sweeter creamed tangerine lingers.

Taste shows peach contrasting grapefruit as a wave of ripe dank takes hold across the profile, eventually cut with tinges of lime as deepening resins progress to shades of moss, white grape, and mango.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body and a prickly fluff of moderate-full carbonation, dispersing choppy resins trending sticky over the mid-palate, while juicy subtext through the back end culminates to a slick, nearly-creamy, and fleetingly bitter finish.

A weighty composition of dank hops and sticky resins phasing intermittently to juicy tropical nectars throughout; burly in expression yet sleekly composed.

Look - great head riming lacing color hazy
Smell - juicy tropical citrus, so much
Taste -fantastic juicy citrus tropical and not bitter. Pineapple mango citrus oat backbone
Feel -medium body creamy light carb
Overall - just incredible!