Cabin Brewing Company / Parkside Brewery Super Dreamy – American Double / Imperial IPA at 8.3% ABV (C$6.35 at Collective, 473 ml, packaged on 20-Sep-2024, acquired 9-Oct-2024, reviewed 19-Oct-2024)
Appearance: hazy pale gold with a large fluffy pale ivory head, good retention and heavy soapy lacing. (4/5) Aroma: tropical & stone fruit, citrus zest, herbal/green tea, cereal grains. (8/10) Taste: moderate sweet, moderate bitter. (8/10) Palate: medium body, moderate-soft carbonation, short duration slightly edgy finish. (4/5)
A collaboration between Cabin and Parkside, mashing up Super Saturation and Dreamboat, hopped with Centennial, Elani and Nectaron. Super Saturation was the first of Cabin’s offering I ever tried, about a month after they opened, and at the time I would have liked it to be a little more boozy and/or less sweet. I found Dreamboat tended slightly thin and astringent. This largely fixes my issues with both, but there’s still a little bit more of an edge than I prefer for an NE (or even DNE) style. My scoring here is therefore just slightly grudging, because I could maybe have gone half a point less on both flavour and palate, but ultimately this really is better than the sum of its parts, and better than its progenitors. (16/20)
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