Ghost Train Pineapple Daze — An 8.2% DIPA That’s Basically a Tropical Vacation

The Review

Ghost Train described Pineapple Daze as “loaded to the brim with fresh pineapple purée and pineapple-forward hops” and double dry-hopped with 2018 Azzaca, Galaxy, and Nelson Sauvin, and at 8.2% ABV in a big-format can — and they’re not overselling it.

It pours a deep, hazy orange-gold, opaque and gorgeous, with a white head. The nose is immediate and overwhelming in the best way: ripe pineapple, tangerine, tropical flowers, the freshest hop character Ghost Train has put into a can. The palate is soft and pillowy, juicy fruit dominating, with a sweetness from the pineapple purée balanced by enough late-kettle hop bitterness to keep it from going candy. The finish is surprisingly clean for something this dense.

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Ghost Train called this their first foray into larger format cans, and it was a flex worth making. At 8.2% it drinks dangerously easily — the tropical fruit hides the ABV until it doesn’t, and by then you’ve made peace with your evening’s trajectory.

Birmingham in July, a porch, a cold can of Pineapple Daze: one of those rare pairings where everything is exactly right.

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