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!

760 Craft Works Orange Card Session IPA

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I am quite fond of 760 Craft Works in Huntersville, North Carolina. They brew some delicious beers, and I have had just a few. This is Orange Card Session IPA, with 5.1% ABV. This sessionable IPA uses hops such as Citra, Idaho 7, Cascade, & Mosaic. I picked up Orange Card because the label caught my eye. I think it goes with the World Cup, or something like that. This beer pours orange with a two-finger white head. The aroma is citrus fruit, oranges, and bitterness. The flavor is a bit like candied tangerine, orange, and bitter/pine. The pine note is light at best, and I mostly taste a bitter citrus flavor, mostly sweet orange/tangerine. This beer has a medium mouthfeel. The finish is citrusy and bitter. It doesn’t taste overly bitter.  The aftertaste is candied oranges/tangerines. That does linger with a faded bitterness. The overall flavor doesn’t make this too sessionable, but it does have a lower ABV for an IPA. I don’t think I could have more than two and a half pints or forty ounces. You could say this is kind of sessionable ( a shorter drinking session). Anyway, I think Orange Card Session IPA is an A. If the flavor and mouthfeel were lighter, this would be an A+. I still think you should try this one. The flavor is delicious. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Birdsong Brewing Co. Sweet Dream IPA

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I saw a can of Birdsong Brewing Co. Sweet Dreams IPA and thought it looked cool. This IPA is 6.2% ABV and has 2-Row, White Wheat, Caravienne 20L, and light Munich. This beer uses hops such as Citra, El Dorado, and Cascade. This limited release is available from March through April. This IPA pours orange with a one-finger slow white head. The aroma is citrus (blood orange), bitter, and hoppy. The flavor is bitter, hoppy, blood orange, and slightly malty. This has a medium mouthfeel. This beer finishes bitter, with blood orange and light malts. The blood orange bitterness lingers in the aftertaste. This had a slightly thicker feeling. I give Sweet Dreams IPA a D+. I didn’t like this beer, but I did finish a pint. I usually like blood orange, and that flavor of this beer wasn’t bad. That helped just a little. I would say this isn’t good beer overall. It’s good that this IPA is only around for a month. I will not have this one again. Birdsong Brewing Co. is still good in my book, not with this beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Founders Brewing All Day Peach

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One of my favorite things is peaches and anything peach-flavored. I was recently at Total Wine and found Founder Brewing’s All Day Peach (Grand Rapids, Michigan). This is a 4.7% ABV session hazy peach IPA made with Alora hops, Pale, Wheat, Oats, and Crystal malts. This year-round beer is part of the All Day series of session IPAs. This IPA pours yellow with a one-finger white head. The aroma is peaches, light bitterness, and light hops. The flavor is juicy peaches, light tropical fruits, bitterness, and light hop flavors. This has a light mouthfeel. It finishes bittersweet, peachy, and smooth. The aftertaste is faded peach and light bitterness. This is a good beer with a light, subtle peach flavor. I give All Day Peach a B-. It has a decent peach flavor, but I would have liked more peach flavor. The bitter hops come in and hit your taste buds. Then the bitter hops fade away kind of quickly. But I still enjoyed this a bit and would recommend it. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Legion Brewing Company High Praise India Pale Ale

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Legion Brewing Company’s High Praise IPA is a Great American Beer Festival gold medal winner. This West Coast IPA is 6.8% ABV. Legion Brewing, here in Charlotte, North Carolina, combines the best attributes of a West Coast IPA and modern hops. This beer pours a golden color with a one-and-a-half-finger white head. The head is fizzy but does linger for a few seconds. The aroma is bitter, citrusy, and hoppy. The flavor is citrusy, peely, and melon. This beer is hoppy, bitter, and crisp. This has a lighter mouthfeel. The finish is crisp and bitter with hints of fruity flavors. The aftertaste is bitter and hoppy with faint fruity notes. This is a good beer, and I can almost see/taste why this won a gold medal. At the end of this beer, it is faintly pilsner-like. That gives High Praise India Pale Ale a B+. However, I do recommend it. It is worth drinking. I would drink this again, soon! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!