Today’s
breakfast perk-me-up is a little bit special. For one thing it’s a 3-way tag
team effort between three very highly rated breweries: Siren, Mikkeller and
Hill Farmstead. Secondly it’s an adventurous stab at creating a beery version
of the Italian sipping liqueur Limoncello. Sounds interesting, eh? Now I could
tell you more but a picture paints a thousand words, as they say, so I’ll let
this photo fill in some more background detail.
Ok, so it’s
a 330ml bottle and is 9.1% by abv. Holy moley; I wasn’t expecting that but hey,
it’s not like it’s breakfast time. It poured hazy burnt-amber/orange with soft
carbonation and a one finger white laced topping. There was a powerful aroma of
lemon, tangerine, orange peel along with a slight bready yeast and peppered
nose. The flavour was as bold as the aroma: spicy lemon dominates-there must be
plenty of Sorachi in here-along with a creamy sweetness offset by a sour tart
edge. The tartness really comes through in the long, dry finish.
Tyson says:
This technically isn’t an IPA. It’s only called that because of the quantity of
hops that have gone into it. They have achieved their goal of creating a beer
equivalent of Limoncello but the massive hop content actually marks it out as
an easy drinking specialist DIPA.