Dab Lab: Juice Joint
Block 15 Brewing - Southtown Tap Room

16oz can from Tavour. Hazy orange golden pour, thick fluffy head. Light fruity aroma leads into mild dankness in the taste. Kind of disappointed, previous reviews were really good. Kind of bland.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a moderately hazy, medium golden amber with a two finger white head with great retention and rocky lacing. Aroma of pale malt, citrus hops, orange, pineapple, lemon and a little dankness. Flavor is pale malt, citrus and lightly piney hops, orange, mixed light tropical and stone fruit and a bare hint of pineapple. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. An overall West Coast profile IPA with an emphasis on citrus, but with some unexpected (but always appreciated) pine notes. The pineapple clearly found in the aroma is only a bare whisper in the taste. There are a lot of other fruit flavors here, but a bit muddled, although they do invite repeated tasting. There is some softness familiar from hazy IPAs, but a solid, satisfying bitterness in the finish. A month old can that may have deserved a quicker tasting, but enjoyable enough now.

 

Poured from a 16 ounce can into an IPA glass.

Look- Sudsy white head, moderately hazy, pale gold, average head retention and lacing.

Smell- Clementine, piney, slightly pineapple, bready.

Taste- Overwhelming bready and piney, slight clementine.

Feel- Thin body, average carbonation, high bitterness, lingering astringent finish.

Overall- I thought it would be juicy from it’s name, but it was really a malt forward West Coast IPA.

Super murky orange almost a haze in itself, cream colored head. Piney hops with a touch of fresh leek and soap, huge orange, pineapple, and grapefruit in the nose. The soap worries me. In the taste my worries fade away into a sunset of orange sherbet, lemon zest, and grapefruit with finishing piney hops and peach skin. Feel is juicy through the whole sip, yet the hops push through and pop on the finish, cool and has no real weaknesses. The hop-juice interaction while being true to the single ipa lightness is the best aspect of the beer

 

L: A yellow tangerine hue with three and a half fingers of ivory foam, and big lace everywhere in random patterns. Seems a rarer sight nowdays.

S: Pineapple, Oranges, and Pine. A little soapy.

T: Follows the nose but it's soft on the flavors for my liking. It does have bitterness and nice pine resin.

F: That imperial weight and stickiness here - more than I'd expect for the ABV.

O: Overall I'd say 'eh'. Drinkable but this is no Sticky Hands.

Nearly clear, light yellow body; excellent carbonation; immensely dense, softly billowy white head, rocky and sculpted; big sticky globs of foam cling to the glass. Soft smell of old peach with a touch of pungent pine. A touch of tropical fruit in the taste, riding atop a quiet biscuit-like malt base; pineapple and peach; moderate hop bitterness. Medium-heavy body; soft and gently spongy; a tad sticky; generally dry mouthfeel throughout.

There was no dating information found on the can, but regardless, the beer has some incredible looks and very respectable taste and mouthfeel. The smell might be a bit muted, but overall, this is one mighty fine American IPA.

 

 

Can Date: 11/4/20
Palate Contaminants: none

Medium straw color, and mostly opaque. But there's a ton of fine head that leaves good lacing.

The main scent is pine resin, and there's a citrus thing somewhere between bitter orange and white grapefruit. Sweetness is very light. What's there is okay, but it's barely detectable.

But if the flavors are still for the taking in the taste, that's fine. The malt comes across like sweet corn, and there's also a nut flavor, probably most like hazelnut, but not quite exactly that. The hops are barely bitter, mostly with a slight vegetation flavor.

The whole thing is incredibly mellow and smooth. I'm used to clearer flavors, especially for something that has medium intensity, overall, yet it's not a big deal here because the flavors are pleasant. Well-integrated carbonation. Alcohol barely detectable. Aftertaste is sweet cut grass.

 

 

Look: Murky orange in color with a billowing white head that pillows up to ½ finger and slowly recedes, leaving great lacing behind
Aroma: I could smell this several feet away after the pour. Tropical fruits (mango, pineapple, papaya), white grapes, blueberries, strawberries, kumquats, and some Cannabis
Taste: Follows nose well but exponentially stronger. Huge berry and tropical fruits up front followed with juicy citrus and white table grapes following. More layers of ridiculously strong fruit flavors hold through – cara cara oranges, kumquats, mango, and pineapple – before closing with yep, more fruitiness
Mouthfeel: Full, medium-high carbonation, soft but not what the look would lead me to believe at all (this is where most ‘hazies’ lose me), and actually a light bite and very lightly soft finish
Overall: This is outstanding. This is my second time trying this, the first being years ago when it was first released and started their Dab Lab Series, so was glad to try it again as it’s everything I hope most ‘softer’ and ‘hazy’ IPAs to be. Incredible juicy fruit notes throughout that you would swear involved real fruit additions and with enough sharpness in the feel to keep it from being palate-killing. Top notch stuff and if you see it, get it and thank me later. Highly recommended

 

You can smell this one across the room when you pop the top. Very flavorful, tasty and lots of juice -- there's really no other way to describe it. Plenty of fruit, moderate dryness and good hop flavor all the way down. The 7% ABV is well concealed with only a trace of alcohol heat on the aftertaste. This is a very well crafted beer.