Category Archives: Equilibrium Brewery

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Equilibrium Brewery, Porter, USA

Equilibrium Möbius Papua New Guinea Vanilla

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Brewery: Equilibrium Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 7%
Style: Porter
Other Notes: American Porter with Papua New Guinea vanilla

Brewer Description: (from Untappd) Papua New Guinea is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean producing beans with a creamy and floral vanilla note. Pouring rich and creamy, we get roasted coffee, chocolate, and dark malts all balanced by a sweet cream, tropical floral orchid, and classic vanilla. The toasty notes harmonize with the unique vanilla and finish with the slightest hints of cherry and caramel. This makes the second of the series unique and a great success for our beloved Porter. Please enjoy Möbius Papua New Guinea Vanilla at 55°–60°F.

My rating: 4-
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.94
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9

Intro: A 1 pint can, with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a snifter glass.
Appearance: Dark brown in colour with a half finger brown head that had pretty good retention and left nice spotty lacing.
Aroma: Roasty, black coffee, chocolate, with some caramel and vanilla sweetness.
Taste: Light roast, chocolate, coffee, light to moderate sweetness, caramel, and vanilla.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, medium bodied, with soft carbonation.
Overall: It’s essentially what you’d expect from a Porter with vanilla. Solid and enjoyable.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Equilibrium Brewery, IPA - New England / Hazy Double, USA

Equilibrium Greenstone

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Brewery: Equilibrium Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 8.5%
Style: IPA – New England / Hazy Double

Brewer Description: (from Untappd) Greenstone starts out with a Fractal grain bill before a Citra whirlpool and a healthy dry hop of Riwaka and Nelson. Greenstone pours an extremely vivid milky yellow with juicy notes permeating as soon as you pop the can open. Powerful flavors open up of bright orange, passionfruit, mango, and Riesling grape with lighter notes of berry, white pepper, and New Zealand earth. Greenstone has a beautiful creamy mouthfeel and our signature #EQjuice finish that will transport you to the lush and beautiful island rain forests of New Zealand in just a few sips.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.3
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 1 pint can, with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with a two finger white head that had excellent retention, while leaving nice lacing.
Aroma: Fruity, mango, grapes, citrus zesty grapefruit, orange peel, grassy, dank, and peppery.
Taste: Tropical fruity sweetness, mango, white wine grapes, light bitterness, orange rind, grapefruit zest, dank, green, and peppery.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: An enjoyable NEDIPA with good aroma and flavours. Nice balance of fruit, dankness, and pepper spice.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), Beer Reviews, Equilibrium Brewery, IPA - New England / Hazy, USA

Equilibrium Light at the End of the Tunnel

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Brewery: Equilibrium Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 6.8%
Style: New England / Hazy IPA

Brewer Description: (from Untappd) Light At The End of The Tunnel uses Photon as its inspiration with some modifications and upgrades including an all Survivable hop blend for the whirlpool and a large dose of Lupomax Citra in addition to a supersized Photon hop bill. Aromas and flavors of soft pineapple, navel orange, stone fruit, EQ’s rainbow melon, and lime juice radiate with a touch of pine resin at the finish making this beer an easy drinking accompaniment to celebrate the fact that we hopefully have the finish line in site.

My rating: 3-
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.56
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.5

Intro: A 1 pint can, with no clear canned on or best before date. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with an almost two finger white head that had good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Orange, melon, lime, with maybe notes of pineapple.
Taste: Bitter, orange rind, melon, lime, lemon zest, and a touch herbal, floral spicy.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: It’s drinkable, but generally the aroma and flavours just wasn’t exactly my thing, especially when compared to other Equilibrium NEIPAs that I’ve tried.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Equilibrium Brewery, IPA - New England / Hazy, USA

Equilibrium Fractal Zappa

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Brewery: Equilibrium Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 6.8%
Style: New England / Hazy IPA

Brewer Description: (from Untappd) We wanted to explore the concord grape notes that Zappa offers so we went with an exclusive Zappa whirlpool and dry hop hop bill. A hazy yellow pour opens up to aromas of pineapple, grape jelly, and nerds candy. Flavors of assorted citrus kissed with purple grape drink, dank sticky icky, fresh cut grass, and pinot grigio grape skins finish clean with an earthy pointed hop bitterness and a splash of #EQjuice.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.16
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 1 pint can, canned on 13th September 2022, poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with a one finger white head that had pretty good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Pineapple, mango, orange creamsicle, grassy, dank.
Taste: Light to moderately bitter, orange peel, mango, grape jelly, melon, dank, grass.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: My first impression wasn’t too good, but as it warmed slightly, it did improve quite a bit and had an especially enjoyable aroma.

5 - Excellent (must buy), Beer Reviews, Equilibrium Brewery, IPA - New England / Hazy Double, USA

Equilibrium dHop 2

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Brewery: Equilibrium Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 8.5%
Style: New England / Hazy Double IPA

Brewer Description: (from Untappd) dHop2 is a DIPA that investigates the interplay between our ale strain and an intensive Mosaic and Citra forward hop bill woven four times into its creative process. It pours a very murky tangerine color, releasing notes of orange juice (with pulp) and earthy grass. The taste is highly resinous, dank-citrus, pine juice, with a chewy mouth feel and a firm and pointed bitterness.

My rating: 5
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.5
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.4

Intro: A 1 pint can, canned on 7th April 2022, poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with a one finger white head that had good retention and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Orange juice, citrus rind, melon, mango, with notes of grass.
Taste: Juicy, sweet and bitter. Sweet, tropical, mango and pineapple to start, followed by citrus, mandarin, citrus rind, and resinous, dank, piney notes, with a lasting bitter finish.
Mouthfeel: Smooth, medium bodied, with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: An excellent NEDIPA that’s just delicious and goes down so easy. It has a good sweet and bitter balance with the type of juicy combo that I enjoy.