DDH DIPA, 8.5% ABV
Double Dry Hopped (DDH) Double IPA with Galaxy, Citra, Enigma, Cashmere, and Krush hops.
The beer is pale orange color, very hazy. The foam is medium fine, a finger high, lacing on glass. The beer smells tropical, showing coconut liquor, POG, passion fruit, orange, guava, sweet pineapple, ripe mango, sweet mandarin noses. It smells splendid as usual. The beer is light to medium sweet, not bitter, medium body, pillowy creamy texture. There’s good about of ester aroma in this beer, and alcohol flavor is bright. The beer shows lemon peel, full crushed orange, marmalade, pineapple, melon, dank hemp herbs, mango puree, pine needles, orange peel essential oil, peach wedge aromas. There’s a lot of hops aromas, but it’s very hard to capture which is which. The oil content from hops leaves some hops burns, but it really bursts a lot of sparks of lemony, dank herbs stings.
TBH writing a tasting note for Monkish’s hazy is silly. Because most of time you can feel the fantastic depth of flavor and aromas in these hazy IPAs, you won’t get much bitter but the beer is not oversewed. You can feel the quality, but you just don’t have a good consistency in your taste to write down what you find, the way human’s aroma receptors work limit how can we tell the flavor. Most of the time it’s just strokes after strokes like the impressionist is doing in their drawings. Over time you can tell which one is even better, by observing more flavor, more complexity in aromas, and more everything. When you get denser and denser experience that ends a better hazy IPA. Some other beer style is different, you need a cleaner structure. But for hazy IPA, you just want to get your orange juice showing all different kind of citrus flavors without punishing your palate with bitterness. So on that side, it’s almost always win if you can find a hazy above 4 at Untappd. Which is not hard at all in California (or any city in the world).