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4 - Good (buy), American Milkshake Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Omnipollo x Monkish Brewing Co., Sweden

Omnipollo x Monkish Space Cookie

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Brewery: Omnipollo x Monkish Brewing Co.
Country: Sweden
ABV: 8.2%
Style: IPA – Milkshake Double

Brewer Description: (from can) This collaboration between Omnipollo and Monkish (CA) was first brewed back in 2018. The idea was to make a dank and pungent Double IPA with graham crackers. A 4:20 snack. Enthusiastically crafted at our church brewery on Sturegatan 41 in Sundbyberg, Sweden.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.14
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 440ml can, canned on 9th February 2022, so not as fresh as I would have liked, but the best before is 9th November 2022. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with a one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly but left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Fruity, pineapple, orange, citrus zest, pine, grass, with light mango notes.
Taste: Slightly sweet, strong citrus beginning, mandarin, orange zest, citrus rind, light tropical pineapple, mango, grass, pine, and a lasting moderately bitter finish.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: It drinks easy with nice citrus and tropical fruit aroma and flavours, while there is also a nice sweet and bitter balance.

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

Equilibrium x Homes Lab Flasks

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

Brewer Description: (from Untappd) Following up from our last collab Lab Tubes, we are back at it with our friends from Homes to create a brand new beer using our Incognito process.

Lab Flasks uses flaked wheat, white wheat, flaked oats, and oat malt to lay the base for a large Citra Incognito, Citra, and Strata whirlpool before we dry-hopped this beer with Citra LUPOMAX, Citra, Strata, and Michigan Copper.

Pouring bright milky yellow, hop saturated aromas of orange creamsicles and pineapple dominant before flavors of assorted citrus, Hawaiian Punch, honeydew melon, cannabis, lime nerds candy, dank earthiness, and a pop of rainbow melon.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.27
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 1 pint can, canned on 5th April 2022, poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A nice bright hazy orange colour, with a just over one finger white head that had good retention and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Juicy, dank, pineapple, mango, orange juice, orange zest.
Taste: Light to moderate sweetness, tropical and citrus juicy, mango, pineapple, melon, orange rind, candied citrus, with light dank and bitter notes.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, smooth, medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: Balanced sweet and bitter flavours with lots of juicy and dank notes. Easy to drink and very enjoyable.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, England, Mills Brewing x Little Earth Project, Wild Ale

Mills x Little Earth Project Mire

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Brewery: Mills Brewing x Little Earth Project
Country: England
ABV: 7%
Style: Wild Ale
Other Notes: Mills Brewing make beer with minimal modern intervention, relying on local wild yeast cultures and the influence of nature to ferment. Little Earth Project is a small and unique brewery in the Suffolk countryside using a variety of sustainable practices to brew small batch, predominantly oak aged wild and sour beers

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Mire was brewed in August 2019 with LEP’s homegrown malt. It fermented for sixteen months in cider barrels with both brewer’s house cultures. The resulting beer was dry-hopped with whole leaf Goldings before seven months maturation in bottle.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.21
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle, bottled in December 2020, with a best before date of December 2025. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A clear dark orange copper colour with a big three finger white head that had good retention, while eventually settling to a nice fluffy cap, and leaving some nice lacing.
Aroma: Musty, dusty, funk, apple, pear, orange zest, with a splash of leather and peat.
Taste: Sweet and sour, apple, orange zest, orange sherbet, oak, leather, peat.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Definitely interesting because I wasn’t expecting the peat and nothing on the bottle indicated that there would be peat, although in retrospect, maybe the name ‘Mire’ was a hint. Looking for other info, it turns out the peat was from a cider barrel that previously held Laphroaig. In any case, the amount of peat was good and not overpowering, and complemented all the other flavours.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), Beer Reviews, Garage Beer Co. x Outer Range Brewing Co., IPA - New England / Hazy Double, Spain

Garage x Outer Range Unnecessary Spaces

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Brewery: Garage Beer Co. x Outer Range Brewing Co.
Country: Spain
ABV: 8%
Style: New England / Hazy Double IPA
Other Notes: Hops – Citra, Azacca, Azacca Cryo and Saphir

Brewer Description: (from can) Collaboration DIPA with Colorado’s Outer Range Brewing Co. featuring Citra, Azacca, Azacca Cryo and Saphir.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.86
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A 440ml can, with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour, with a just over one finger white head that had good retention, and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: A little muted, but there’s orange, citrus zest, melon, grass, pine, and maybe a touch herbal.
Taste: Light sweetness and a nice light bitterness on the finish. Orange, citrus rind, mango, with notes of pine.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: It got better the more I drank it, but this could have been because I was a bit disappointed with the aroma at the beginning. There was a good sweet and bitter balance with strong citrus notes.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Equilibrium Brewery x The Eighth State Brewing Company, IPA - New England / Hazy Triple, USA

Equilibrium x The Eighth State Super Fractal Phoenix Set

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Brewery: Equilibrium Brewery x The Eighth State Brewing Company
Country: USA
ABV: 10.5%
Style: New England / Hazy Triple IPA

Brewer Description: Super Fractal Phoenix Set uses a simple grain bill of 2row and our specific fractal fermentation profile. For Phoenix Set we used our hand selected Citra and Idaho 7 in the whirlpool and a dry hop of hand selected Citra and Galaxy along with Sabro and Strata at an even higher hopping rate than Batch 1. Super Fractal Phoenix Set pours an opaque yellow tangerine and has a big citrus nose. The flavors are a unique blend of tropical fruits, big peach, citrus, “our melon thing”, passionfruit, coconut and an underlying dankness. This beer is extremely aromatic, crushable and smooth with an BIG #EQjuice profile that might just leave you seeing beautiful shapes and spirals.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.33
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 1 pint can, canned on 20th January 2022, poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy murky slightly dark orange colour, with a one finger white head that had good retention, and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Citrus pithy, candied orange, mandarin, melon, with light mango notes.
Taste: Juicy, citrus, zesty, pithy, tangy, lightly bitter, orange juice, melon, mango.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, smooth, full bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: Very easy to drink with wonderful aroma and flavours, and the alcohol is well hidden that it does not seem like 10.5% ABV at all. Also love that it’s not too sweet and has good balance.