BND has a
substantial fruit nose with notes of grapefruit and strawberry, and a
boozy pineapple energy. Tropical fruit sweetness is front facing and
continues through the whole experience, and the back end picks up a bit
of bitter momentum—I’d have sworn it was higher than the listed 28 IBUs,
but there you go.
As NEIPAs go, I thought that
Granite’s Brand New Day was a winner. I liked the fruity medley of
flavours, the slightly above style bitterness, and cloudy as hell dull
colour. It also had a pleasantly mellow mouthfeel. As with most NEIPAs,
I’d have liked the booze quotient to be a bit higher, but that’s my beef
with the style rather than the fault of this one. The beer isn’t elite,
but it’s certainly enjoyable as heck.
Rating: 8.0 out of 10.
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