Score
7.38
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Can. Pours hazy soft yellow. Pineapple, tangerine, vanilla, plenty of vanilla, lime, grapefruit, even a hint of bitterness. Medium body. Honestly kinda well balanced for the style. Good.
Fruited milkshake IPA - this must be somewhere at the extreme edges of what IPA can mean nowadays - by this craft brewery in Montana, can from Bier Bazaar shared with Craftmember. Snow white, thinnish but creamy (on the edges), open with thin veils in the middle, over a cloudy yolk-yellow beer with lime-greenish tinge, turning murky and deeper yellow-peachy with sediment - a sediment that also includes actual (minute) bits of fruit in this case. Extremely luscious nose of a tropical beach party: overripe pineapple and mango (though the latter comes from the hops alone), tangerine juice, granadilla, peach jam, strong vanilla piercing through everything, sweet onions, coconut milk, dough, white pepper, gin, diesel, freshly whipped cream, vaguely sweaty touch in the background. Extremely fruity onset - a bomb of tropical pineapple, mango and granadilla mingled with peach jam and indeed a very citrusy tangerine presence, quite refreshing in a way, softishly carbonated, full and bit powdery mouthfeel; sweet-and-sour 'real' fruitiness dominates from beginning to end, but over a doughy malt body sweetened by lactose and pierced by strong retronasal vanilla - while the hops blend seamlessly with the fruit, offering another layer of mango- and granadilla-like exuberant tropical fruitiness as well as citric fraîcheur, something very oniony and peppery bitterness, quickly turning into a hop burn, but only in the end when the sediment has been added. Gin-like alcohol warmth is noticeable too, but drowns in all that yellow-green-orange fruit. Wow - this is quite something, a very intense experience I must say, extremely colourful, bold and decadent but still refreshingly citrusy as well thanks to the added tangerine; the vanilla and lactose are quite exotic but only add to the 'milkshake' experience. Completely delivering what it promises, and more - I admit it, I am usually very skeptical about this 'haze craze' in IPA land today, but milkshake IPA is something of a guilty pleasure and this one certainly qualifies. Smelling it alone put an instant smile on my face and that does not happen all too often anymore after all these thousands of beers - have a point for that, and another one for being over the top in the finest way possible.
Canned 09/08/20. Hazy yellow, unstable white foam. Smells lactose, plenty vanilla, some fruit. Taste is lots more bitter than I'd expect, but also sweet. Lactose, pineapple, vanilla. The Amarillo makes this a bit odd, but not unpleasant. Not just sweet.
16oz can from Tavour. Doesn't disappoint. Hazy yellow, wispy head. Milky, fruity aroma. Blend of fruits works perfectly, the lactose and vanilla really making this feel like a milkshake.