IPA

Three Taverns Craft Brewery A Night on Ponce IPA, 7.5% ABV is named after a street in Atlanta, Georgia but this IPA is brewed in Decatur, Georgia. This is another beer brought to me by my friend and co-worker Matt. This IPA pours a yellow color with a one-finger steady fading white head. The aroma is lemon citrus with a dry hoppy note. The flavor is citrusy with lemon and a bit of lemongrass with bitter hop dryness. The mouthfeel is light and smooth with a bit of crispness, This IPA finishes dry with a few fruity lemon hops and not much of an aftertaste I found Three Taverns Craft Brewery A Night on Ponce IPA a little soapy tasting and a bit too much lemon flavor. I’d give Three Taverns Craft Brewery A Night on Ponce IPA a D+. It tasted like an IPA, a lemony IPA, but not in a good way. The lemon flavor was a bit off and the hops were low in flavor. I didn’t find this to be that good, and one-sided. It needs to have more than just the lemon perhaps more hop flavors than lemon or tone down the lemon flavor. I don’t think it’s a good IPA. Please be kind, be safe and enjoy responsibly! down the lemon flavor. I don’t think it’s a good IPA. Please be kind, be safe and enjoy responsibly!

Brewed in Athens, Georgia Creature Comforts Brewing Co Tropicália India Pale Ale, 6.6% ABV which was brought from Atlanta, Georgia by a good friend and Matt Alexander. This IPA pours a semi-deep golden color with a sticky two-finger white fluffy head. The aroma is juicy with ripe tropical fruits, mango, pineapple melons with some light bitterness. It smells good and tropical. The flavor is juicy ripe melon, mango, and pineapple with a light hop bitterness. The mouthfeel is light and it finishes with a hoppy tropical flavor. The aftertaste is fruity with bits of hoppy notes. It does taste as wonderful as it smells and I’d say it’s an A+. It is very crushable even being 6.6% ABV, which means it easy to drink. I highly recommend Creature Comforts Brewing Co Tropicália India Pale Ale. Well brewed taste beer that is quite refreshing. Please be kind, be safe, and enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Brewed in Charleston South Carolina Edmund’s Oast Brewing Company Bound By Time India Pale Ale, 7% ABV brewed with 2-Row, Oats, Crystal, Acidulated malts, Citra, Mosaic, El Dorado hops, and American yeast. This IPA pours deep golden almost copper color with a two-finger steady fading white head. The aroma is citrusy with orange, there is cantaloupe and melon bitterness. The taste is similar to the nose with bitterness, orange citrus, cantaloupe melon with a sweet smooth hoppy note probably from the use of oats here. The mouthfeel is medium and it finishes with a bittersweet fruity flavor. The aftertaste is light with a hippy fruit flavor that does not stick around very long. Overall this was not a bad beer, but I didn’t get much from the oats used here, I picked up more fruity notes. I would give Edmund’s Oast Brewing Company Bound By Time India Pale Ale a C+. This particular brewer does brew good beer but this was just not quite up there with some of their other beer, but close. I would not turn this beer down if it was offered to me and yeah I kind of recommend it, but if you don’t have it you aren’t missing too much. Please be kind, be safe, and enjoy responsibly! Cheers! 

Brewed in Charlotte North Carolina Legion Brewing Next chapter East Coast India Pale Ale, 6.8% ABV and 58 IBU (International Bittering Units) is a beer that uses a portion of the beer proceeds to go towards a Charlotte charity organization. This IPA pours a slightly cloudy yellow color with a one and a quarter white head that fades somewhat quickly. The aroma is bitter/hoppy with piney aromas coming off it. The flavor is piney, bitter/hoppy with dryness to it that is faintly reminiscent of an odd lemon because there is no citrus flavor anywhere else. The mouthfeel is on the lighter dryer side. This Legion IPA finishes with a dry hoppy piney bitterness that trails off into nothing. The aftertaste is piney with a nice amount of dry bitterness that goes rather quickly. This beer has good quaffable flavor but I wouldn’t say it’s sessionable, it does have a 6.8% ABV. I think it’s a C+ beer. Just right about average. Would I have this again? Well, it wouldn’t be my first choice, maybe my second choice. Remember to please be kind, please be safe, and please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

When you find an India Pale Ale, you find that most of them are from some American brewery, but they did originate from England, and so did this one, Meantime English IPA, 7.50% ABV. This IPA has a higher ABV than most IPA I’ve come across. This Meantime pours a hazy light orange color with a one-finger thin white head that does fade quickly and leave somewhat of a light lacing. I didn’t find too much light coming through the glass and nor did I find a whole lot of carbonation bubbles either. The aroma has nice citrus fruit notes to it,  orange and lemon. There was that bitter grass scent as well. Meantime’s taste is a sticky citrusy with orange lemon and a bit of pineapple surrounded by a hoppy yet grassy note. But this is way hoppier than most American IPA, not a  lot of bitterness, big hop presents to it. There is no sour like bitterness that you get from some American IPA’s. This IPA is just a big hoppy IPA. The mouthfeel is medium with a big hop note and finishes with a nice hop flavor. The aftertaste is hoppy clean, a bit refreshing. I would give this an A, just a good hoppy IPA without a lot of bitterness and need to have a glass of water afterward, but I wouldn’t have more than two of these, having a hoppy presence and a 7.50% ABV. But this is a solid English IPA, well crafted and tasty. I recommend this if you love IPA’s or just hoppy beers. This IPA is good! Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

Brewed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Foothills Brewing Festival Express India pale ale, 5.7% ABV., categorizes this year-round beer as a Juicy IPA. It comes in a nineteen-ounce can. This IPA pours a yellow-gold color with a one finger white head. The aroma is juicy with tropical, stone, and citrus fruits. There are a few floral notes with a nice amount of bitterness. The flavor is juicy with light peaches, some pineapple, mango, orange, and bits go grapefruit. There is a nice bitter flavor to this IPA. Mouthfeel is medium, and Festival Express has a nice fruity bitter finish. All the fruity bitter notes linger in the aftertaste of the beer. I always enjoy a Foothills Brewing IPA, they have brewed them well, and Festival Express is no different. It is nice, taste good, well brewed, and I give it an A. This juicy IPA should be something you should try. Please stay safe and enjoy responsibly! Cheers! 

I was in Dallas, Texas, over the Christmas holiday and stopped by a local liquor store and purchased Deep Ellum Brewing Co. Deep Ellum IPA, 7% ABV. Unfortunately, North Carolina doesn’t have liquor stores like Texas. We have the state-run government ABC stores that only sell liquor. Deep Ellum Brewing Co., located in the heart of Dallas in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas. Which right near downtown. It’s a hip, vibrant hipster area of Dallas. Deep Ellum IPA pours an orange color with a two-finger off-white rocky head. The aroma of this IPA is tropical, fruity, citrusy, with some bittersweet notes, pine. Taste is pretty similar to the way it smells, much like an IPA should. It’s tropical with a bit of pineapple and some citrus orange and grapefruit with bitterness, piney, and slightly sweet notes. It then finishes bitter with fruit and pine notes and has a good bitter aftertaste. The mouthfeel is medium more on the lighter. This IPA is decent. Deep Ellum Brewing Co. Deep Ellum IPA is a B-. Nothing is terrible with this IPA, just above average. That’s not a bad thing in my book. Could it use a little more citrus flavor? Sure. I would have this again. Please stay safe and enjoy responsibly! Cheers!