Aggressively hopped golden dry body punctuates sunny lemon tang and brisk curacao orange bitterness with polite wheat chaff, but watery fructose finish lacks fervor.
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LAGUNITAS UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION SHUT-DOWN ALE
Rewarding ruby red medium-bodied 12th anniversary double IPA celebrator stays as fresh as a dewy springtime meadow. Bright apple-nectar-peach-pear sweetness, creamy sugar-spiced vanilla malting, and sappy maple-spruce thicket counter piney floral hops up-front. Earthy geranium sequel absorbs subordinate mango-papaya-marmalade tang, almond-chestnut dab, and cinnamon pinch quite efficiently for boozy, medicinal 9.9% alcohol tributary.
MC NEILL’S DEAD HORSE INDIA PALE ALE
(NINE G) INFIDEL IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE
Snazzy red deviled label and austere 8.4% alcohol ebb welcome sinister heretics to coppery hell-bent libation ultimately less brazen than prudently dulcet. Strengthened piney hop-spiced bitterness counters honeyed nectar inducement and resultant tangerine-grapefruit-apricot tang impacting mineral-grained toasted barleymalt spine reinforced by fluttered cookie dough sweetness. Brewery defunct: 2010.
REAPER SLEIGHOR DOUBLE INDIA PALE ALE
(SHERWOOD FOREST) SHERIFF’S INDIA PALE ALE
SOUTHERN TIER INDIA PALE ALE
TREMONT INDIA PALE ALE
WOLAVERS OAK BARREL AGED INDIA PALE ALE
(CHARLES WELLS) WELLS INDIA PALE ALE
Easy flowing, mineral-grained, odorously musty golden amber perfect for introducing lagerheads to fine pale ale splendor (but too smoothly delicate for actual robust English-styled IPA). Crisp barley-hops induce light earthen peat finish, but some metallic astringent seeps into the nebulous mix. Somewhat similar to fellow UK canned brews by Wexford, Boddington, and Caffrey’s.
AVERY MAHARAJA IMPERIAL INDIA PALE ALE
Versatile hazy rust-glazed humdinger tactfully blends bitter pine with sweet spruce, nicking impending butterscotch notch. Rising orange peel, grapefruit, and pineapple tang permeates roasted chocolate malting. Perfumed hops enlighten residual pepper spicing, floral dash, citrus tingle, and resinous pine flank deepening non-obtrusive alcohol-licked finish. Mango-pineapple illusions await patient tipplers.