It’s been a decade since we final reviewed a Shock High beer, a ten-year stretch that has seen the wheat beer specialist bear a full rebrand/redesign — and now the launch of a wildly excessive abv bruiser to affix the brewery’s assortment.
At 9.6% abv, it’s the booziest Shock High launch ever made, primarily the brewer’s wheat-forward reply to an Imperial IPA. Excessive Voltage is an Imperial wheat ale, plumped up with orange taste and loads of it. The nostril bursts with orange gummy candies, underpinned with contemporary wheat bread, buttered simply so. The palate doesn’t diverge a lot, if in any respect. If something, it’s much more orange-forward than the nostril suggests, the sweetness a pungent powerhouse that nearly makes you neglect there’s wheat within the recipe. At instances it threatens to come back off nearer to a seltzer — although the chewy, gummy texture of the beer whisks away any such ideas pretty expeditiously, culminating in a cozy-creamy but extraordinarily boozy end. A bit a lot, to be frank.
9.6% abv.
B / $3 per 19.2-oz can
Shock High Excessive Voltage
USD3
