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shrugging drinker

por Ceit
diciembre 9, 2022diciembre 12, 2022

I’m excited for something from La Quince, although it isn’t a famous Black Velvet. Maybe a later date? Anyway, this is something that might tickle anime fans with the picture on the label, and maybe the name Angry Boy would make more sense to them too. It’s a DDH Cream IPA, which doesn’t sound like an aggressive or punchy style, but I have been fooled by light-sounding modifiers to IPA before. It’s a respectable level of alcohol at over 6%, so it shouldn’t be watered down in any way.

Very light – creamy- color, and almost whipped cream resting on top. Just popping the top of the can releases a slightly spicy fragrance. There’s a flowery perfume too, a sophisticated blend of hops. The taste is very subtle at first, but soon a little clovery sweetness makes an appearance, washed down by a light IPA bitter. Some spikes of bread also pop up. It’s a soft tasting beer, despite being double dry hopped, so maybe things got better kept in the aroma. There’s some sensation in the aftertaste, warming the throat and tickling the back of the tongue. It settles down into a pretty stable but layered flavor, a bed of bitter and a topping of sweetness. Much sweeter than you expect an angry boy to be.

how could you!

por Ceit
diciembre 2, 2022diciembre 2, 2022

I got my beer calendar, weeks before I even expected it, and excitedly ripped into day 1…only to see sin alcohol on the can. Alcohol free? In a craft beer calendar? Is the universe trying to tell me something? At least it is an interesting craft style, a hazy IPA, and from a reliable brewery. Actually, Boira is a collaboration between trusty Guineu and Althaia. If they made the effort to bring the beer out, I guess I can make an effort to drink it.

Very cloudy and a very pale color greet me, not a bad aroma at all with a little bread and a little ginger (but not quite gingerbread), and a wrapping of grapefruit. The head forms with relatively large bubbles and vanishes within seconds. Now it really looks like a fizzy lemonade, one you would expect to be “organic”. Flavorwise, it’s the grapefruit that comes out on top. The bitterness is heavy although the beer itself feels almost effervescent, and it doesn’t have the sharpness that some hazies or NEIPAs end up with. It’s not a bad imitation of its alcoholic counterpart, maintaining a feeling of bitter beer juice and citrus snap that is the attraction of the style. It has less juice than many “real” NEIPAs, but there are quite a few that it lines right up with.