Juice Project - Supreme
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Tasting Notes
Pours with the dense, pillowy body you expect from a well-executed hazy imperial, with aroma that leans heavily into tropical fruit — think ripe mango, papaya, and fresh orange zest layered over a soft doughy base. The flavor follows through with a juicy, almost sweet fruit character up front, though Tree House's hop selection tends to bring a resinous edge that keeps it from tipping into syrup. Bitterness is low and rounded rather than sharp, with the high ABV integrating cleanly enough that heat is minimal. The finish lingers with stone fruit and a faint piney note.
About the Brewery
Tree House Brewing is based in Charlton, Massachusetts, and has built one of the most devoted followings in American craft beer since opening in 2011. They're best known for their New England IPAs and hazy double IPAs — Julius being their flagship — and have consistently ranked among the top-rated breweries in the world on platforms like Untappd and BeerAdvocate. Their taproom model, with releases drawing long lines of dedicated fans, helped define how small New England breweries could operate at scale without wide distribution.
Food Pairings
The tropical fruit-forward, low-bitterness character here pairs naturally with spicy Thai dishes like green curry, where the beer's sweetness tempers the heat without fighting the dish's aromatics. Soft tacos with grilled fish and mango salsa echo the beer's fruit notes in a complementary rather than contrasting way. A rich, fatty cheese like triple-crème brie works well because the beer's carbonation and acidity cut through the fat. For something more casual, pepperoni pizza holds its own against the beer's assertive hop presence without getting lost.
Style Guide
The hazy imperial IPA — sometimes called a double New England IPA or DIPA — takes the soft, fruit-juice character of the standard hazy IPA and pushes ABV typically into the 8–10% range while amplifying hop intensity and body. It originated as an extension of the New England IPA movement, pioneered by breweries in Vermont and Massachusetts in the 2010s, distinguished by its use of late and dry-hop additions that maximize aroma over bitterness. Unlike West Coast double IPAs, which tend toward resinous bitterness and a drier finish, the hazy imperial stays full-bodied and low-bitterness, leaning on biotransformation and heavy dry-hopping to produce its defining tropical and citrus aromatics.