Burial Beer Dismembered Under the Unforgiving Grip West Coast Style IPA

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Here in Charlotte, North Carolina, a new Wegmans supermarket opened, and I went. I purchased Burial Beer Dismembered Under the Unforgiving Grip Wet Coast Style IPA. That was among a lot of other groceries. This IPA is 6.8% and was brewed for Burial’s 2026 Burn Pile in collaboration with Varietal. This beer is whirlpool-hopped with Citra and Chinook DynaBoost. It’s also double dry-hopped with Loza Farms Citra, Chinook, and Amarillo Cryo hops. This IPA pours gold with a two-finger white head. The aroma is piney with light bitterness. The taste is Bitter, metallic, piney, and has a light vegetal note. This beer has a lighter mouthfeel. The finish is harsh, bitter, piney, and light fruit. The aftertaste is off-putting.  The aftertaste is bitter, piney, and metallic. I didn’t like this beer, and I usually do like Burial IPAs. I am giving this a D-. I would not drink this. Nothing really was any good. I couldn’t find any decent or average flavor in this beer. I don’t think this was a West Coast-style IPA. Burial Beer, you need to re-brew this beer; better next time! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Zero Gravity Craft Brewery Cone Head Haze

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When I first tried Zero Gravity Craft Brewery’s Duck, Duck Juice, I thought it was good, so I decided to seek out their other beers. I did! I found Cone Head, Haze Hazy IPA. I found this beer at the same Whole Foods as Duck, Duck Juice IPA. This hazy IPA is 6.3% ABV. This beer uses Rahr Pilsner, Weyermann Vienna, and flaked oats.  It also uses Motueka, Simcoe, El Dorado hops, and House Ale Yeast. This IPA pours hazy yellow with a two-finger white head. The aroma is tropical fruit, bitter, light pine, and light sweet notes. The flavor is tropical fruit, piney, bitter, and hoppy. This beer has a medium mouthfeel. The finish is tropical and smooth. I found a bit of piney bitterness on the finish. The aftertaste is tropical and light hops. That does fade, but not completely. Overall, this is a good hazy IPA is an A. It has good tropical flavors with the right amount of bitter hops. I would recommend Cone Head Haze. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Deschutes Brewery Fresh Squeezed IPA

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If you mention Deschutes Brewery Fresh Squeezed IPA to any craft beer fan, they’ve had it. It is a widely known IPA from Bend, Oregon. I’ve had it once or twice. But I have not reviewed it. That is, until now. This year-round IPA is 6.4% ABV with Premium 2-row malt, Munich malt, and Crystal 75 Malt. It has hops such as Mosaic and Citra. This beer pours a light copper with a two-finger white billowing head. The aroma is light with pine and citrus sweetness. The flavor is bitter, with juicy citrus notes. The mouthfeel is medium. It has a bitter, fruity finish that fades. The aftertaste is bitter citrus that lingers for a second or two before fading. I see why Fresh Squeezed IPA is popular. I would give this IPA an A-. This beer should have more juicy fruit flavors. I would like more. But I’d still recommend Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA. I would go back for more. Please stay, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Zero Gravity Craft Brewery Duck, Duck Juice IPA

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I have never heard of Zero Gravity Craft Brewing from Burlington, Vermont. So I purchased Duck, Duck Juicy IPA. This IPA is 7% ABV, brewed year-round with Rahr Pilsner and rolled oat malts. They also use HBC 586, Talus, Mosaic, CP Mango hops, and house ale yeast. This IPA pours a hazy blonde with a three-finger white head. Slow head retention here. The aroma is fruity, juicy, and bitter. The flavor is juicy fruit, light berry, and bitterness. This IPA has a medium mouthfeel. The finish is less fruity and still as bitter. The aftertaste is berry and bitter, but it doesn’t linger long. Overall, Duck, Duck Juicy is a good, solid IPA. It’s an A and makes me want to try more of their beers, which my local Whole Foods stocks. I do recommend you drink this. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. West Ghost Modern West Coast IPA

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Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is one of the best breweries. They brew great beers. This beer is West Ghost Modern West Coast IPA. I had this beer before, on September 11, 2023. Then it was part of FOMO beer and had more of a Pac-Man label. This IPA is 7.2% ABV with Carapils, Two-Row Pale malts, Amarillo, Citra, Idaho 7, Magnum hops, and ale yeast. This is a throwback to West Coast IPA before the whole hazy IPA craze. This beer pours gold with a two-finger big white head. Sunlight is hitting the glass, making the beer look copper; it’s not. The aroma is bitter, piney, light citrus, and hoppy. The flavor is also bitter, piney, citrusy, and hoppy. The piney notes have a grassy taste. This beer has a medium mouthfeel. This IPA finishes bitter and citrusy with light pine notes. The aftertaste is a lingering bitter/hoppy note with fading citrus. Overall, it is good and gets an A, which is what I gave it three years ago. Hazy IPAs are good, but they tend to be for the masses or for people who kind of like the hoppy bitterness of an IPA but really like the fruity nature of them. This West Ghost IPA is for an IPA fan. This is a must-drink for you! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Life Moves Right Through You India Pale Ale

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Burial Beer in Asheville, North Carolina, probably brews the best IPAs. They are my favorite brewery. This India Pale Ale is Life Walks Right Through You. It is 7.2% ABV, mashed with wheat and oats, and whirlpool-hopped with Nectaron and Citra Cryo hops, and Citra Incognito. It is double dry-hopped with Citra, Nectaron, and Vic Secret, finished with a dab of Citra Cryo. Lots going on with this IPA. This IPA pours a hazy yellow with a yellow-ish/white two-finger head. The aroma is juicy, sweet, and fruity. The taste is dry-hopped, bitter, sweet, juicy, and citrusy. This beer has a medium mouthfeel. The finish is bittersweet, dry-hopped, and fruity. The aftertaste is a light lingering of bitter citrus fruit. I would say that Life Moves Right Through You IPA is an A+. I really enjoyed this IPA from Burial Beer, and I would recommend it. All the cutting-edge brewing techniques and ingredients really come through and make a delicious, wonderful beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Birrificio Birra Baladin L’IPPA

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This beer, purchased from World Market, is another Birrificio Baladin beer from Piozzo, Italy. This is L’IPPA, a traditional 5.5% IPA. I have been to their brewpub in Rome, which I recommend visiting. This IPA uses Water from the Maritime Alps, Barley malt from our fields in Basilicata and Apulia, Italy. The hops come from our fields in Piozzo and Busca, and the yeast is made in the Piozzo brewery. This IPA pours deep orange with a two-finger white head. The aroma is orange, bitter, sweet, and light yeast. The flavor is Tangerine, orange, light melon, light mango, and bitterness. I didn’t really get any sweet notes. This beer has a medium mouthfeel. Then it has a bitter fruit finish and a slightly strange off-flavor. The aftertaste is citrusy fruit and bitterness that doesn’t linger long. This is an above-average IPA. It’s a C+. The weird finish doesn’t make the beer terrible overall. I can’t say I would or wouldn’t recommend this. It’s just a little above average. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Co. Enlightened Aren’t We All India Pale Ale

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It’s been a while since I’ve had and reviewed a Burial Beer IPA. I have been trying and reviewing their non-IPA beers. But I thought it was time for one of their IPAs. This one is Enlightened Aren’t We All. It is 7.2% and made with oats and wheat. It’s whirlpool-hopped with Mosaic, Incognito, and hand-selected Mosaic Cryo. This IPA is also dry-hopped with 3 different kinds of hand-selected Mosaic hops grown in Oregon’s Lakeside Ranch and in Idaho at Central Cove. Burial usually does a lot to make an IPA. This beer pours a hazy yellow with a two-finger white head. The aroma is fruity and hoppy. There are light wheat aromas with some piney notes. The flavor is juicy fruit, pine, and light wheat. It has a nice hoppy taste. The mouthfeel is medium. This IPA has a bitter and fruity finish. The aftertaste is faint wheat and a nice piney/fruity flavor. This is a good beer, and a lot went into it. I give Enlighten Aren’t We All an A. As I drank this, I thought it was a B+. But that went up while writing. This IPA has good flavors that all come together for a delicious IPA that is worth drinking! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Royal Bliss Brewing Co. Other Worlds Hazy IPA

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If you don’t know about Royal Bliss Brewing Co., then you should! It’s a great brewery out of Denver, North Carolina. This is Royal Bliss Brewing Co. Other Worlds Hazy IPA. This beer is 6.8% ABV with Australian Galaxy and Vic Secret hops. I am seeing Australian hops more in IPA lately. This IPA pours a hazy yellow with a fluffy two-finger white head. That head leaves behind fluffy lacing. The aroma is citrusy and tropical, with a nice amount of bitterness. The flavor is pulpy orange juice, citrusy, with notes of passion fruit, pineapple, and bitterness. The bitterness is soft, along with the overall flavor. This has a medium mouthfeel. Then it comes to a citrus/tropical finish. The aftertaste is light orange, pineapple, passion fruit, and faint grapefruit. It is also bitter, but it fades. This is a great hazy IPA that gets an A+ here. I would highly recommend Royal Bliss Brewing Co.’s Other Worlds Hazy IPA. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Royal Bliss Brewing Co. Lord of The Hops New Zealand IPA

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Whenever I see a Royal Bliss Brewing Co. beer, I usually buy it. Recently, I spotted Lord of the Hops New Zealand IPA while shopping at my local Total Wine. This 6.6% IPA uses Nectaron hops. This hop was developed over 17 years by Plant and Food Research; it is widely used in IPAs, NEIPAs, and Pale Ales. This New Zealand hop has notes of bold, juicy pineapple, passion fruit, peach, and grapefruit. This IPA pours a light golden yellow with a one-finger white head. The aroma is lightly grassy, grapefruit, light tropical fruit bitterness, and hoppy notes. The flavor is bitter and hoppy. There is grapefruit, passion fruit, and smoothness. This beer has a medium mouthfeel. Then this IPA finishes with fruitiness, bitterness, and some light herbal notes. The aftertaste is lighter on the grapefruit and passion fruit as it fades. There is some lingering bitterness. This is a good beer. Lord of the Hops New Zealand IPA is a B. I thought going into this beer that there would be more of a bold tropical fruit flavor to this. But that was decent. It did have a good amount of bitter hop flavor. I recommend you try Royal Bliss Brewing Co. Lord of the Hops New Zealand IPA. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!