Decadent "Pineapple Orange Pacific Punch" Double IPA

Another Decadent beer, and another double IPA. These guys just keep cranking these out, and they are definitely trending positive. I like an experimental brewery, and the fact that they are able to experiment with virtually a single style of beer in such a niche market as dessert beers is something that is both intriguing and laudable.

The pale yellow beer is a little hazy, but it also has some of those white bits that are usually indicative of an unfiltered beer. The bits don't sink to the bottom - instead, they lazily float about the beverage once they find equilibrium about a quarter of the way up from the bottom of the glass. The significant head is all big bubbles that die before they can be properly appreciated, and the incomplete dusting of small bubbles left on top do nothing to mask the pineapple-orange dough aroma that the beer emits ineluctably.

First sip is relatively demure for having the pineapple and orange featured so prominently on the label and in the aroma. This is not to say that there is no pineapple or orange, but they aren't hitting as hard as the marketing team thought they would. Instead, the beverage is exceptionally sweet, but this should really be expected from a dessert beer from Decadent. As a DIPA, the beer is predictably malt heavy, and that would be the reason for all the sweetness. Strangely, as I pour more of the beer from the pint can into the glass, the beer become significantly more hazy to the point that it is almost implacable (much like a bearded iris beer).

Tip-in is furious carbonation catalysm above a very sweet, somewhat grainy dough overshadowing a pineapple and orange mélange. The middle is a delightfully solid grainy malt with pineapple, orange, apricot, star fruit, and plums. The finish is an unfortunate wall of bitterness where the fruits are all smashing into it and leave nothing but pits and rinds. The trail off is similarly undignified and funky.

Bottom Line: This beer is seriously let down by its finish.

1.25/5