Remarkably resilient West Coast-styled medium-full body bursts forth with tropical fruited juiciness while evergreen-fresh pine hop bittering and herbal restraint contrast honey-roasted biscuit malting. Sweet-spiced floral bouquet decorates spectral grapefruit, orange, mango, nectarine, honeydew, pineapple, peach, tangerine and papaya tang. Perfect in the can and even fresher, fruitier and friskier on tap at Virginia Craft Brewers Fest.
Interestingly hybridized Virginia-based collaboration combines herbal-spiced O’Connor El Guapo Agave IPA with juicy-fruited Three Notch’d 40 Mile IPA. Mild agave nectar sweetness suits zesty citric-hopped profile and honeyed caramel malting. Sweetly soured orange-rotted lemon bruise overruns wispy El Dorado-hopped mango-papaya-guava balm. But unusual peculiarities abound as gluey plasticine grouting leads to cloying aspertame gumming at citric-spiced finish.
Delightful hefeweizen gathers German pilsner malts and noble hops for stylish banana-clove sweetness and lacquered citrus undertones. Tertiary lemon meringue, banana daiquiri, ambrosia and fennel illusions hide below abundant banana bubblegum finish.
Dutiful marijuana reference aside, endearing tropical-fruited India Pale Ale serenades sharp grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and zesty lemon tang with hemp-oiled piney hop dankness. Mildly creamed crystal malting sweetens subsidiary mango, peach, nectarine, passionfruit and guava illusions.
Aggressive West Coast-styled India Pale Ale brings sharp citrus hop bittering to dry yellow-wooded acridity while contrasting cara-pils malt sweetness. Up-front grapefruit pith and orange rind bittering picks up subtle Mosaic-hopped mango-guava-passionfruit tropicalia. Clean well-water crisping provides brisk flow.
Centrist India Pale Ale brings dry-hopped citrus crisping to buttery pale malts and mildly pungent lacquered pine bittering. Juicy grapefruit-orange-tangerine tang picks up floral nuances over biscuit-y bottom. Serve as crossover to lighter ale imbibers.
Eccentric India Pale Ale utilizes ‘white-wined’ hops to sourly affect brash citric nature and mild pine bittering. Yellow grapefruit tang and murky tropical fruiting get fenced in by light grain malting.
Well-balanced citra-hopped India Pale Ale loads sharply embittered yellow grapefruit tang atop lemony orange peel briskness, light pine sapping and resinous floral bouquet. Clean-watered minerality provides crisp flow for bittersweet citric juicing. Subtle mango-papaya-pineapple tropicalia embellishes fruitful medium body.
Tropical New Zealand hops bring sharp grapefruit rind bite to zesty navel orange, lemon, pineapple and peach juicing for excellent limited edition 2015 India Pale Ale. Dewy pale malts provide sturdy backbone. Clean, crisp, refreshing.
Likable dry-hopped India Pale Ale lightens up on the stylish citric pining so that caramel-spiced toffee sweetness and dewy earthiness gain deeper exposure.
Vigorous fruited hop sharpness stays crisply clean above floral spiced sweetness, resinous pine bittering and earthen tea rusticity. Tangy grapefruit, pineapple, orange, peach and mango tang reinforced by zesty lemon zing. Crossover IPA for lighter pale ale thirsts.
Straightforward IPA balances citric-bound Cascade hop bittering, mildly resinous pine-oiled tarring and sugary crystal malting. Stylish grapefruit-orange-pineapple-mango tang leads the way. Recessive floral, earthen and herbal nuances stay subtle.
