Hazy New England IPA with Clementine

The fourth collaboration between the Society of Beer Drinking Ladies and Toronto’s Henderson Brewing Co., Hazy New England IPA with Clementine gives you almost everything you need to know with its name. The beer, sold in 473mL cans, contains 6.5% alcohol. Along with clementine peel, the beer is brewed with flaked wheat and flaked oats. It’s a hazy golden orange brew and it pours with a durable white foam.

 

This hazy NEIPA has a bright, fruity aroma—juicy with some floral elements. The flavour has clementine to spare—it’s bursting with orange juiciness, supplemented with pith and peel bitterness.

The result is a cheery, summertime beer brewed with (in my mind anyway) a fruit synonymous with the holiday season.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10.

People's Pint Pit-Stop: Do People Still Like IPAs?

Do People Still Like IPAs? is an oatmeal IPA that I quaffed during my first visit to Toronto’s People’s Pint Brewing Company. According to the big board at the brewery, it was a collaboration with Beer Diversity, who is a very cool presence on Ontario's beer Twitter scene.

The 12oz beer arrived looking hazy and magnificent—orange gold under a shock of white head. D.P.S.L.I. clocked in at just 5.2%, making it a little light for its initials. It had a succulent tropical fruit scent, with papaya leading the charge over a trickle of tangerine. The flavour, too, is rich in exotic fruit flavours. The presence of oatmeal lent a gentle, smooth mouthfeel. At the finish line, there was some bitterness, though not quite as IBU-happy as I might have wished.

In all, Do People Still Like IPAs? was a thoroughly enjoyable romp. Flavourful and smooth, with little bit to like.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10.