Staggeringly Good Brewery - Spared No Expense v3
Oh yeah!!
We had been craving a beefed up juice monster of the DIPA/TIPA variety for a few days and why not being 'Xmas-eve eve' and all. My subsequent research tells me this 8.7% double had undergone a jurassic 30g/l of Idaho-7 and Citra dry-hopping.
Dan
Another brewery first for me and this time it's the Portsmouth based dinos. I had seen good words about their sours and IPAs across IG so was well up for giving this a go!!
This is a really difficult beer to describe and in fact, the brewers' own tasting notes give next to little away other than the works "dank" and "sweet pear" - there was certainly a touch of the former although I'd be lying if I said I was picking up the latter. The beer was medium hazy, pouring a pretty apricot orange with a nice touch of carbonation. The nose gave next to nothing away but on the gob, there was a nice hit of pine resin some non-descript squishy fruit and a touch of herbal spice.
There wasn't hop-burn but it was quite a booze-forward beverage straying towards that alcoholic taste as if a shot of something has been thrown in for good measure and the sweetness was in danger of becoming sickly. That said, they just about stayed the right side of the line for me balancing the hop fruitiness and not letting the booze runaway with it!!
Was it good? For sure!
Was it "staggeringly" good? Not quite!
Score - 4.0
Jack
This was not my first encounter with Staggeringly Good Brewery, however, it is definitely a better showcase of wat they are capable of than the other one of theirs I have tried. And, if this is a showcase of what Staggeringly Good are capable of, I will make sure to pick up more of their offerings in the future.
Right off the crack this gave off a massive hit of yeast, maybe not something everyone wants filling up their nose holes, but I do - sometimes. The yeastiness aside, once sipped, this cheeky little DIPA was full of surprises. There was a fruit sweetness about it, but not to the extent that I would be calling it a juice bomb, it was more like a classic IPA amped up. There was a good whack of old-school bitterness wafting over the tongue which took me up to the border of tooth-grinding territory, but relaxed just in time to leave a linger sense of the hops, and a very happy boy begging for more.
Score - 4.25
Come and have a nosey at us sipping away at this brute, you can access the magic here.
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