Bodacious medium-full body brings tropical-fruited nature to brisk hop-oiled bittering and piney evergreen freshness with magnificent sunshiny results. Initial pink and yellow grapefruit tang picks up zesty lemon, navel orange, pineapple, nectarine, mango, peach and papaya juicing. Orange blossom-honeyed crystal malting adds sugary respite to crisply clean mouthwatering delight.
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DC BRAU THE CORRUPTION INDIA PALE ALE
BALLANTINE INDIA ALE ALE (PABST)
Is this America’s first great ‘craft’ beer? Brewed since the 19th century, it’s not overly aggressive or too hop-forward, allowing a wider range of palates to explore. Like most modern IPA’s, juicy grapefruit-peeled orange, peach, mango, tangerine and pineapple tang contrasts crisp piney hop bittering. Further sweetness derived from almond, praline and pecan nuttiness as well as creamy crystal malting and honeyed cereal grain spine. Standing up to newer microbrew recipes without overstating its piney citric bittering, ale connoisseurs of every stripe should enjoy the radiant medium-to-full-bodied classic.
VICTORY 19 ANNIVERSARY SESSION IPA
VICTORY MOVING PARTS IPA BATCH 2
Ordinary English-styled India Pale Ale brings dewy peat mossing, herbal green-black tea bittering, resinous cedar pining and earthen Goldings hop crisping to desolate crystal malt sweetness. Brown pear, brown apple and citrus notions simply fade away.
VICTORY MOVING PARTS IPA BATCH 3
Prolfic, ever-evolving IPA series presents decisive Batch 3, a Belgian-styled India Pale Ale better defined as a typically fine West Coast knockoff. Soft-toned lemony grapefruit tartness crisply picks up white-peppered Citra hop spicing above sugary crystal/carapils malting and buttery biscuit spine. Peachy tangerine, pineapple, cantaloupe, mango and melon tang gets juicier by illustrious floral fruited finish.
OTHER HALF HOP SHOWERS INDIA PALE ALE
BARRIER NON-CENTS SESSION IPA
On tap at Ambulance, dank citrus musk crowds astringent hop bittering of arguably ‘sessionable’ Money IPA knockoff. Retaining all the original brew’s grain alcohol coarsening and lemony orange pungency (minus the fruit rotted aspect), its light sugared spicing takes away some of the bitter edge, but not enough for lighter palates.