![]() I'd buy it again, I think it would make a great summer beer, but I'm not thrilled with it. I really love guava but I hate the seeds, so if you can get the flavor without them that's the way to go. The mouth feel is also OK, but not great. The flavor has some great fruity flavors but somehow it falls a little bit short of being great. Seeing as how this is an UnFiltered Offering maybe it's just that. In the mouth it's thinner than I thought it would be, seemingly light-medium in body, and although there's a haze to it it doesn't have the smooth and silky feel of a lot of hazy beers. The bitterness is a little bit stronger than I thought it might be in such a fruity IPA but that's OK, it remains balanced. I'm not sensing any oats, although they could be there. The malt is basic, and perhaps a bit wheaty it's hard to tell as it's kind of dull. There's a little bit of floral character to it which is nice, and there are notes of peach, apricot, and passion fruit in the shadows but nothing that really steps forward. all of the fruit remains, which is nice, but I thought I'd be finding a little more as well. I certainly can't fault it there! On to the taste. The aroma definitely displays guava but there's also a nice berry note to it coming from the Mosaic hops, and orange from the Mandarina Bavaria. I'm sure this is a "beer clean" glass as I've just used it so that's disappointing. Refreshing and fragrant fruity smell, with apricot. Cloudy yellow color with a nice white head and beautiful lacing. This is a fun beer Poured from a bottle into a tulip glass. Notes via stream of consciousness: The label reads "HAZY IPA WITH GUAVA", and "MOSAIC & MANDARINA BAVARIA" ~ what could go wrong? It's poured a cloudy golden orange body beneath a short head of white that's unfortunately already dropped to almost nothing. UFO Apricadabra is a Hefeweizen style beer brewed by Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall in Boston, MA. He adds, playfully referencing Berkshire’s successful flagships, “I’m quite offended, but one of the people in the industry said these are the best things we’ve put out yet.”įor more information, including a full list of participating breweries and beers, visit .12 fl. “You can have distilleries that have made the same whiskey for 100 years, and that’s their one brand and that’s what they sell.” The scale of the project is not lost on Weld. The remaining nine whiskeys are scheduled to be released throughout 2021. The first three are available now at the distillery and will be making their way into select stores. “That’s one of the great, geeky things about this being a sort of a wacky science experiment where the genetics of the beer translate over,” says Weld.Įach brewery provided different amounts of beer to Berkshire Mountain, which means the final yield of the various whiskeys ranges from hundreds of bottles to hundreds of cases. Each of the whiskeys has intentionally turned out quite differently. And that’s part of the fun of the project, which works with beers as diverse as Jack’s Abby’s Smoke & Dagger black lager, Brewery Ommegang’s Three Philosophers Belgian quad, and Long Trail’s Unearthed American stout. There’s a citrus backbone to each of the first three whiskeys, which taste lighter and brighter than something made with, say, a stout or a brown ale. “We try and abide by ‘a watched pot never boils’, so we try and let the barrels sit for a bit.” “The first three I was a little bit hesitant, because they’re all somewhat flavored beers with botanicals,” Weld says of the aforementioned brews. Some of the flavors, then, that make a beer pleasant to drink, like Harpoon UFO White’s coriander and orange peel, need to be carefully balanced. In other words, you probably don’t want to use the biggest, hoppiest IPA. Weld can tell you the science behind all of it, but some things to know about turning beer into whiskey are that the process is more similar to making scotch (in terms of turning a liquid into another liquid), and that any big flavors in beer, like bitterness, are magnified in the distilled spirit. “They just hit five years, and I have to say they’re all pretty spectacular.” “We were going to release them a year ago, and then COVID hit,” says Berkshire founder Chris Weld.
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