Partner Ships: IPL
Heavy Seas Beer

 

 

 

A-Pours a nice amber color with a slight head
A-Aroma has malty hints
T-Taste follows the nose with a nice malty flavor
M-A light bodied beer
O-Well made beer

 

 

 

22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 6/6/2017. Pours crystal clear deep golden amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big tangerine, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, lemon/orange zest, light pepper/pine, cracker, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tangerine, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, lemon/orange zest, light pepper/pine, cracker, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, lemon/orange zest, light pepper/pine, cracker, lightly toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and moderate bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and no astringent hop flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.8%. Overall this is an awesome DIPL! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Really awesome vibrant, juicy, and lightly dank hops; great balancing bready malt backbone, with no residual sweetness. A really enjoyable offering. Loved the Simcoe/Mosaic hop presence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(FTR - This is not a Pilsner but an "IPL")
Poured a copper body with small head. The aroma has that lager graininess one might expect with a slight cracker/bread malt base. Dry, bitter, earthy hops with a touch of malty sweetness and bready fullness and clean, dry finish.