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There's Always a Juice 7.2%, S&A Brewing, Switzerland
1 ratings
There's Always a Juice
7.2% India Pale Ale

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Post author: WexiLahti
WexiLahti
@ Drinks of the World, Geneva
5 years ago
There's Always a Juice, Switzerland
4.2
The beer colors misty orange with a faint milky hue. The weaker than average carbonation winds quickly up but succeeds in producing an off-white head that looks like frog spawn and barely rises half a centimeter tall. Soon the surface is covered with a hair-thin lacing only. When put against light, I can detect a bunch of minuscule particles floating in the beer: I guess they are grapefruit that is one of the ingredients of this beer. The grapefruit is massive on the nose, too. It's very fruity but not too fresh. The grapefruit is also surprisingly little sour, rather embraced by some sweet zesty orange, peach and mango. The wheat is a bit heavy and slightly musty. The tongue likes the colossal citrusy overkill. Now the grapefruit has gained sourness that it lacked in the fragrance. Orange, peach, mango and perhaps also a whisper of carrot accompany nicely in the close proximity. The wheat malt is bitter and quite musty and mingles with yeast. Although the package lies on the sour side, it also has its sweet milkshakey side as if there were lactose. However, there's no lactose in the beer. The body is light-medium to medium. The aftertaste follows along the same path, at times bitter, at times sour, and occasionally even sweetish. The grapefruit dominates in the finish whereas the sweeter fruit have stepped aside. The duration of the aftertaste rather long. The mouthfeel is surprisingly tropical, light-crisp, slightly tart, somewhat dry as well as a little bit mouth-drying. It's also natural, juicy and undoubtedly very summery, also distantly lip-glueing. The label says this is a "Tropical IPA". It looks and smells like a NEIPA but the gustatory supply takes it quite far away from New England. Very quaffable though.