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\n<\/a>Things are not what they seem with today’s beers, both from Dublin brewery Lineman.<\/p>\n

The draught-only Love Buzz<\/b> had me wearing out some shoe leather for a trip across to Tapped on Nassau Street, not a part of town I’d be in regularly, at least since the Porterhouse discontinued Wrasslers. There I found a 4.5% ABV session IPA which was an unappetising murky ochre, with a slightly sickly sweet cordial aroma. It’s smoothly textured, feeling much bigger than the strength, while the flavour is bizarre<\/i>. I hadn’t twigged that it had added passionfruit, although the brewery did warn us, in fairness. Anyway, it’s very passionfruit, with a concentrated syrupiness that somehow manages to be more spicy than sweet, giving me cinnamon and sandalwood, while still also being tropical. Like I say: bizarre. It’s fun, and certainly different. I can’t imagine it works as an actual session beer, however. My palate was gumming up at the two-thirds mark and my next beer was definitely going to be something cleaner. Still, a worthwhile experiment, and worth trying if you see it, if only for the weirdness.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I gave an approving nod recently<\/a> to the Saul Bass homage on one of Tiny Rebel’s cans. Lineman is at it too, referencing Bass’s Hitchcock poster work on Vertigo<\/b>. Double black IPA is a rare treat indeed, and this one is a prize-winning homebrew recipe, which is another signal that there’s a good time to come. It poured a little murky, with a brackish brownish tint to the black body. A raft of rocky ivory foam tops it off. The aroma is quite subtle, but I do get the suggestion of mocha and pine, which indicates it will be stylistically accurate. It is, I guess, but in an understated way. The unspecified American hops manifest as a sharp citric bitterness, like a squirt of lemon juice. That sits up front, and is quite brief. The middle section is all about the dark malt, and it’s more chocolate-forward than I would prefer, holding back on the roast. There’s a hint of dankness on the finish, but you don’t get a lot of bang for your buck here, and there’s no intimation at all that we’re dealing with an 8.2% ABV whopper. Black IPA is a daft, clownish beer style, and double-black doubly so. That gives brewers a licence to make something loud and silly, but that’s not what’s happened here. Maybe the homebrew judges preferred a bit of nuance and balance in theirs, because you absolutely get that. I would have liked something more head-spinning, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ll say this for Lineman: they know how to keep things interesting. It’s quite the gift to the beer blogging community.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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