Dragon energy

Maybe I'm just not paying sufficient attention, but the beers from Cardiff's Tiny Rebel brewery seem to no more than trickle in to Ireland, showing up in random places without consistency or logic. Today's beer is Dutty, a session New England IPA I found in Redmond's but haven't seen anywhere else.

Though only a piddling 4.2% ABV it packs a lot of positive NEIPA attributes in there. It's a dense-looking opaque orange colour, but there's no yeasty grit in the flavour. The aroma is citric, and the flavour carries enough of that bitterness to make it satisfyingly balanced. The main act, however, is the juiciness: a beautifully quenching mix of mango, mandarin and guava. A remarkably full body really accentuates the fruit, though the sweetness doesn't last long, being finished off by the aforementioned bittering and a smack of herbal resins.

It's a lovely drinking beer for summer (remember that?), and absolutely begs to be followed with another. The little 33cl cans, while I'm sure helping with keeping it cold, don't do it full justice when you only have one to hand. This beer deserves pints.