Seismic Waves
Blue Point Brewing Company

Blue Point Brewing Co. "Seismic Waves"
16 fl. oz. can coded "26OCT21 BP 1251"

Notes via stream of consciousness: Blue Point has been putting out some better beers these days and I'm hoping this is one of them. It's a double dry hopped triple IPA brewed with Citra, Chinook, Mosaic, Idaho 7, Simcoe, and Denali hops. It's poured a very hazy deep golden/orange body beneath a short head of white. Unfotunately the head dropped rather quickly. The aroma displays a combination of apricot and pineapple ahead of some pine, tangerine/orange, black berry, and grassiness over a sweetish and bready malt base. It's not the brightest IPA that I've smelled in the last 24 hours but it'll do. The taste is much fuller, as expected, with a surprisingly sweet maltiness for being a beer of 11% ABV. What's the original gravity on this puppy? Back to the taste, the sweet malt appears to have some wheat in it but I'm not really finding oats. The hops offer more orange and tangerine than apricot and pineapple, although those notes are still there. Along with the sweet malt the orange and tangerine from the hops gives it a strong orange marmalade character. Add that to the wheaty and bready malt and you've got a toasty and fruity treat for breakfast! Additional notes not previously mentioned include soft pine, dusty herbs, woodiness, and black tea. There's a slight touch of spiciness to it but I'm guessing that the alcohol is behind that. There's an interesting spiciness left behind in the aftertaste that's quite curious as it's kind of like cinnamon. It doesn't really appear that bitter because of all of the malty sweetness but there's got to be a decent amount of bitterness there. The alcohol is surprisingly kept in check, which is interesting. The finish is semi-dry, and I get dried fruits (black raisin, black currant, apricot), herbs, spice, dusty earth, and that cinnamon-like spiciness. That's probably the most interesting part of this beer for me. In the mouth it's full bodied, just a little bristling due to carbonation and alcohol, and then smooth and sugary. I've consumed about two thirds of this and I'm starting to feel it - the last third will go much more slowly! It's an interesting beer that's kind of like a combination of a New England stye IPA and golden barleywine. I see it as a perfect winter beer, or as a slow sipping night cap, but to a certain extent it could also serve as a dessert beer.
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