Sands of Sleep
Autodidact Beer
- From:
- Autodidact Beer
- New Jersey, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 10.1%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.32 | pDev: 4.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 12, 2025
- Added:
- Mar 21, 2025
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Collaboration with Conclave Brewing. Pushing our New England base to the absolute max with enormous doses of oats and wheat in the grist, and then New Zealand Cascade, Nelson Sauvin, and NZH-214 hops; this triple IPA drizzles out of the glass with copious amounts of New Zealand tropical hop goodness. We’re getting ripened mango, fresh guava jelly, fleshy lychee berries, and gobs of lemon lime zest. This beer is absolutely drenched.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by beerbully from New Jersey
4.35/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
L-Straw colored. 1/2 finger head. Heavy lacing. Slight haze.
S-passionfruit. Musty, dusty overripe melons. Faint pineapple.
T-Follows the nose. Passionfruit. Over ripe melons. Mangoes and Pineapples. Some peach
F- medium. Low carb.
O- Solid Triple. Very drinkable. Feels like its an 8.0 ABV
Apr 12, 2025S-passionfruit. Musty, dusty overripe melons. Faint pineapple.
T-Follows the nose. Passionfruit. Over ripe melons. Mangoes and Pineapples. Some peach
F- medium. Low carb.
O- Solid Triple. Very drinkable. Feels like its an 8.0 ABV
Reviewed by MacMalt from New Jersey
4.31/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Reviewed 7 days after can release. Poured into a Willi Becher glass. It pours a slightly muddy tangerine color with a very large cap of fluffy, bright white foam with excellent retention. It smells of lemon, lime, grapefruit, white wine, and oat sweetness. The taste is big and bold with fairly bitter notes of lemon and grapefruit balanced by sweet tropical fruit and oats. The wheat adds a crackery backbone. There is also a strong dose of earthy spices and peppercorn and more than a hint of pine sap. It finishes with lingering bitterness and even after a week in the can there is considerable hop burn. This ale has a solid mouth feel with moderate carbonation, and it drinks surprisingly easily for the 10.1% ABV. Overall, Sands of Sleep is a very solid New Zealand-hopped TIPA. It has lots of flavor and I project that another week in the can will mellow the hop burn. Update: It did, and I increased the taste rating.
Mar 30, 2025
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