Our pals at Indiana-based Solar King are again with an enormous load of recent beers, this spherical heavy on IPAs and, oddly, beers constructed round caramel of some type. You’ll see what we imply as we dip into the specifics. Let’s crack open some cans.
Solar King Surf Classes IPA – Candy, nearly syrupy at occasions, this heavy IPA is brewed with tangerine, coconut, and pineapple, and two out of three of these work right here. The coconut will get heavy — immediately — dominating the expertise and making for a beer that drinks nearer to a dessert you’d get at an Indian restaurant than something I’d prefer to crush on the seashore. Drop the coconut and this might be an in-your-face winner. 7.8% abv. C / $8 per six-pack
Solar King Turtle Thunder Hazy IPA – A curious hazy made with Southern hemisphere hops. Outcomes: fascinating, if undeveloped in full. A considerably gummy assault sees notes of guava paired with Mexican sweet — oversweet, vaguely fruit-related — earlier than ending on a chewy, malty be aware. Regardless of a strong physique and a few lemon-orange notes on the end, it by no means fairly comes throughout like several hazy I’ve needed to date… however I haven’t been ingesting them south of the equator, so what do I do know? 6.4% abv. B / $9 per six-pack
Solar King All Them Llamas Hazy IPA – Brewed with “experimental hops,” with no llamas harmed within the manufacturing of the beer. Sunny and fruity — very peach-forward up entrance, with some lemon notes giving the creamy affair a custard-like high quality. Good stability of bitterness with the colourful fruit components, that sturdy peach character providing a novel composition. 7.4% abv. A- / $NA (12 oz cans)
Solar King Keller Haze IPA – Boldly tropical however in any other case simple in design (impressed by the German kellerbier type), this refreshing and juicy beer options spectacular notes of pineapple on a chewy (albeit not overly “hazy” spine). The fruit finally recedes to showcase extra basic IPA bitterness, with notes of heather and contemporary wheat, the end seeing only a trace of piney, mushroom-infused funk. It’s superbly balanced and was essentially the most effusive crowd-pleaser on this sextet… the gang being me, that’s. 6.3% abv. A / $10 per six-pack
Solar King Caramel Corn – Properly, this appropriately named purple ale is made with caramel corn, and that’s precisely what it tastes like: Impossibly candy, liquified caramel giving the malty underbelly an enormous dose of sweetness. Downright diabetic in taste, it’s troublesome to devour in additional than small doses, the end providing a toothache-inducing stage of syrupy sweetness. I’d be mendacity if I stated there wasn’t some perverse appeal to this beer, nevertheless it’s not an expertise I really feel compelled to take pleasure in greater than as soon as. 5.4% abv. C+ / $NA (12 oz cans)
Solar King Caramel Apple Tripel – “Malt beverage” aged in rum barrels with pure flavors. The identify says all of it: This monstrosity tastes like what would possibly occur should you left an apple pie out to ferment for a couple of weeks, then blended it up and put it in a bottle. The bruising 13.2% abv beer would punch you within the face had been it not for the unbelievable sweetness right here. If that is meant to be “Belgian type,” that didn’t wholly pan out: It’s Belgian waffle type, or IHOP type, perhaps. Apples, pie crust, caramel sauce, brown sugar. However beer. You get the thought. 13.2% abv. 2022 launch. B / $NA (16 oz plastic bottle)
Solar King Caramel Corn
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