Tru-Action IPA
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

A: slight haze; medium gold in color; 1+ finger finely pored ivory head that receded to a thin cap; nice rings of lace;

S; fresh squeezed pink grapefruit juice;

T: grapefruit and pineapple up front; from the middle through the finish, it's pineapple and mango; mild to moderate bitterness at the end;

M: medium bodied; moderate carbonation; dry finish;

O: full flavored;

 

Well, Ive been off of IPAs for a bit, but figured I would drop in a review of this beer. Gift from my brother for CHristmas.
Date stamp is December 2022.
16 oz can has been in my fridge since Christmas. Pouring into a snifter this evening and the beer is cold as I just pulled it out of the fridge.
The beer pours fairly clear gold from the can, but rests in the glass with just a bit of haze and several fine active streams of carbonation rising to the surface. A bleached white creamy head of 1.5 cm foams up and fades slowly to a clingy surface layer that sticks around throughout the sampling. I also get some dense lattice when I take a sip or swirl from the glass.
Aroma is some hops for sure, I get tropical fruits such as pineapple and mango mixing with a bit of general citrusy note and some grassy hints and a bit of a light spicy note buried under the fruit.
First sip reveals a medium body with soft texture and very fine tingly carbonation.
Flavor is a brief bit of sweet grainy malt and then rolls to sweet tropical fruit, again mango and pineapple here. Finish is dry and has just a bit of a bitter earthy bite. Never any hint of the ABV and the beer drinks super easy.
Im finding this beer to be pretty good without being completely hazebomb level. Glad to have tried it.

This beer has a very nice pine and juicy citrus note followed by dank, earthy, graininess.

I dont know why DFH rarely tells you, if at all, what hops go into the brewing process, like other brewers do. I like knowing what I'm drinking and I really appreciate the information. It really does effect my shopping. So, I didn't know there was Rye in the recipe until I came here. Not a big fan of Rye IPA's and I'm not even sure if it is flaked or malted? As another famous Delawarean would say; "C'mon, Man!"

Poured into pint glass and paired with pimento cheese dip.
Lovely hazy yellow gold, 3-finger head, but little lacing. I'm a sucker for lacing. I wanna see some lacing. Smells mangoey. Tastes uncomplex. It's one of those beers that names its intended flavors on the can, but you only wind up tasting a couple. You get the pineapple, and then you get the hoppy bitterness on its way down, and then you take another sip. Not unpleasant, just a little dull. Medium bodied, a tad heavier in the mouth than I'd prefer for this beer, but it's got great carbonation and a crisp finish. A good beer overall, very much drinkable, but there's a lot I'd change.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery "Tru-Action IPA"
16 fl. oz. can coded "DEC 2022 D 153 2 0522 11" and sampled on 19 October 2022
$5.79 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ

Notes via stream of consciousness: This is a "continually dry-hopped IPA"? I'm not really sure that's possible. When does the dry hopping start? Is it during fermentation? After fermentation? Is it dry hopped right up until the time of packaging? Or is this just a continually hopped IPA with the hops going into the kettle the whole time? That's what I'm guessing. OK, let's see... it's poured a very hazy golden body with an orange sheen beneath a thumb's width of fluffy white foam. The aroma is citrusy with orange, some bready malt, and some herbal, grassy, and piney notes. It's hoppy but not that hoppy and I think I can safely say that this is not "continually dry-hopped". The flavor follows the aroma but with much more of a tropical fruit flavor. I'm getting pineapple, papaya, guava, and mango as well as orange. Again, it's hoppy but not that hoppy. Nor is it that bitter so I'm guessing that while they're continually hopping it they're not actually hopping it with that many hops. Those pellet hops must be just dripping in, one pellet at a time. The malt is sweetish, and bready and wheaty. I'm guessing that there are probably oats in here as well but I'm not getting the flavor clearly like I do with some other hazy IPAs. I'm not finding it that bitter, and that's totally cool as this is obviously a kind of New England style IPA. It's apparently a collaboration with Trillium so that makes sense. At least I think it does; where is Trillium from? - Boston. That's a little south of where I was thinking but it still works. I've never had a beer from Trillium so what do I know? In the mouth it's medium bodied and smooth with all of those extra proteins and a moderate carbonation but it's not quite what I'd expect from a NEIPA. Is there something going on here with the Boston Beer merger? This doesn't seem to be up to DFH standards. In fact, apart from the weird "continually dry-hopped" thing the label reads "WHAT'S INSIDE: A SMALL BATCH COLLABORATION WITH..." but there's no way that this is a "small batch" as it's produced at DFH in Milton Delaware, and two of the Boston Beer breweries in Breinigsville Pennsylvania and Cinncinati Ohio - those are BIG batches! It's an OK IPA but they've definitely over-sold it. You should never promise more than you can deliver, and always deliver more than you've promised - that's not the case here.
Review #8,330

 

Wow…was in Milton, saw the Trillium collaboration so decided to try it….love both breweries.
Should have tasted before heading back to North Carolina…..would have picked up at least one other four pack.
Very mixed fruity, mango, orange, etc but a nice piney undertone that gives a crisp finish.
Super complex right off the bat, great mouthfeel, just super enjoyable as a stand alone pint and at 6.5% you can manage more than one in a session.
Not tasting “ordinary” in any sense to me…a new favorite in the style…hoping for more collaborations like this from DFH.

 

 

 

 

Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass.

A pale orange amber, with a light hint of opaque quality. Classic bright white head of three fingers and good staying power. Looks like a standard hazy IPA but nothing crazy amazing or out of control either.

Quite a nice unique aroma. Gum drop touches of candy, and a juicy fruit like flavor. Mellow sense of spice and pine seem to round out giving the beer a good degree of complexity.

Palate seem to go in lots of really good places. Standard mouthfeel and supportive malt backbone, but a diversity of hop flavor makes for a good experience. Juiced up candied fruit mixing with bitter pine. A finish that comes with some good spicy astringency and even a touch of sweet biscuit cookie as well. Throw in a few floral aromatics also.

Nicely neat done IPA. Juice sweet bomb folks can look elsewhere.

 

 

Best by December 2022

Man, it’s been a minute since I’ve reviewed a new beer from Dogfish Head. And inexplicably, it’s a collaboration beer with Trillium. I’ll be honest in saying that I’m managing my expectations with this one, though I’m sure it will be serviceable at the very least. Let’s dive in

Pours a cloudy orange gold with 3 fingers of creamy off white head that slowly fades to a cap and leaves decent lacing

The nose is vibrant and old school hoppy, not the hop burn I’ve come to expect when I see Trillium. I’m picking up on aromas of orange marmalade, peppery hops, caramel malt, wet grass, pineapple juice, grapefruit zest, and light weed

It falls a bit flat in taste, but not necessarily bad, just a bit bland. On the front end of the sip I’m tasting pithy grapefruit, candied orange, grassy hops, bready malt, cantaloupe, and light pepper. The swallow brings notes of orange marmalade, pithy grapefruit, caramel, peppery hops, light grass, and bready malt

A medium body pairs with moderate carbonation, resulting in a crisp and refreshing beer. Finishes mostly dry with a balanced bitterness

Ok, this is better than I expected. It was really the Trillium of it all that had me weary more than it being a new DFH beer, but I’m happy to have been wrong about this one