Dab Lab: Hop Hash
Block 15 Brewing - Southtown Tap Room

Draft at Block 15. Hazy golden pour with a thin white head. Aroma is floral, lightly dank, faint citrus. Taste brings out more of the citrusy flavors, melding with the grassy, dank hops for an all over sticky bitterness. Pretty light on the palate

Classic pour - slightly hazy, light amber, plenty of head. Nice aroma of flowers, stone fruit and a touch of earthiness. First sip is smooth and clean, favorable and highly drinkable. The oats lend their typical smoothness to mouthfeel while boosting up the malt foundation. This is a really good beer and easily could earn a place in their regular rotation.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a hazy, light to medium golden amber with a one finger white head with great retention and solid lacing. Aroma of caramel and biscuit malt, citrus and tropical fruit hops, lemon, mixed tropical fruit and a touch of dankness. Flavor is pale and lightly caramel malt, citrus and dank hops, grapefruit, lemon, hints of light tropical fruit, mild pine and dankness. Somewhat soft finish with moderate hop bitterness. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. The hop flavors and a bit mellow and restrained. I'm surprised to see that Simcoe and Citra where the main hops; there is Citra citrus notes, but not much herbal Simcoe flavor to my palette. There is some softness and moderated bitterness leaning to hazy IPA style, but fortunately, a satisfactory amount of alpha oils for my taste. One of the tamer Dab Lab offerings; somewhat pale in color too.

Cloudy golden body, rich leafy and floral hops with a nice grapefruit bite, a mild juicy tropical fruit presence as well, nicely balanced with caramel, not too bitter- relatively moderate leafy bite with medium body and good carb. Good stuff!

 

On tap at Bailey's Taproom the other day.

The beer pours a hazy orange amber color with good head retention and decent lacing. The nose is pretty impressive, as I pick up considerable tropical fruit, orange citrus and dank weed and light spice. The flavor profile replicates the nose pretty closely, though the beer is quite as "juicy" on the palate as it smells. Still, there's plenty of flavor in this well crafted IPA, with enough bitterness on the finish to buoy the sweet tropical fruit. Alcohol is very well integrated into the flavor profile, and drinkability is terrific.

Have had most of the Dab Lab efforts so far, and would have to rate this as one of the better ones.