Helios x Spotty Dog Splat Hazy IPA

Style
Hazy IPA / Belgian Wit
ABV
6.0%

When I heard Helios and Spotty Dog had collabed on a hazy IPA called Splat, I thought, “OK, cool. Good breweries. Should be a good beer.”

But if I’d been told they collabed on a Belgian wit stuffed with bitter orange and blood orange, I would have started running towards it so quickly the ground would have bunched up under my feet like a hallway rug, Looney-Tunes-style.

I’m a big fan of Belgian witbiers.* I’m a big fan of orange in beer.** So I don’t care that the additions of Motueka and Eclipse hops make Helios’ Jake Harrison say: “What that’s created is, in my opinion, no longer a Belgian wit at all. It’s way more of a hazy IPA than a wit.” I say Splat is an orange Belgian witbier that happens to be heavily dry-hopped. The zest starts early and finishes late. Those hops double down on the intense citrus character, but there’s a slight breadiness and Belgian spice I reckon keeps you firmly in Belgian wit territory.

I was right with my initial prediction that Helios and Spotty Dog would make a crackin’ beer, even if I disagree with the style they put onto the label.

There’s one thing I will agree with Jake on: “If you like juice, get around this beer. It slaps, man.”

Slap it does, Jake. Slap it does.

Mick Wüst

PS Forgive me for being a little late off the mark with this one. Helios delivered samples closer to release date, but they were stolen from my front step and it was a couple of weeks before we figured this out and arranged new samples. I kind of want to find the thief just to ask them if they thought this beer was more like a hazy IPA or an orange Belgian wit.

* Pair them with pizza. Thank me later. ** And have been ever since the Mismatch Negroni IPA of 2016, which received repeated mentions in my beer blog at the time.

Published October 17, 2024

Name
Helios Brewing
Address

15 Palomar Road
Yeerongpilly
QLD 4105

Phone
(07) 3392 9739
Open Hours

Thursday: 4pm to 9pm
Friday and Saturday: 12pm to 9pm

Sunday: 12pm to 5:30pm

And open for growler fills through the week

Tours

By appointment

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