IPA

Slurp Surfin is a West Coast India Pale Ale produced by NoDa Brewing Co. and is part of the Slurp Series of IPAs. This IPA is 6.5% and is dry-hopped with Mosaic, Simcoe, and Centennial hops. NoDa Brewing uses the same mash hopes and Thiol (a type of yeast) as the Lil Slurp and mash hops; Experimental 177701. Mosiac Incognito is used in the whirlpool. This beer pours a yellow color with a three-and-a-quarter fluffy white head. The head is very slowly fading. The aroma is pineapple, grapefruit, tangerine, orange, bitterness, and light pine. The flavor is also tropical pineapple, tangerine, orange, and grapefruit. There is a good amount of bitter notes there. This beer has a lighter feel in the mouth. This IPA has a tropical fruity bitter finish. The aftertaste is bitter with tropical fruits. Slurp Surfin is a delicious beer and one that is an A. I enjoyed the tropical bitter flavors. So go find NoDa Brewing Co. Slurp Surfin, and the rest of the Slurp Series beers. I have previously reviewed the rest of the series. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Hardywood Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia produces Great Return IPA. This IPA is 7.5% and uses Apollo, Cascade, Centennial, Columbus, and Simcoe hops. This IPA pours yellow with a one-finger white head. The aroma is bright, citrus, piney, and malted. The flavor is piney, citrusy, hoppy, and smooth. This beer is lighter on the mouth. Then it has a bitter hop finish. Then you get an aftertaste of piney grapefruit. The bitterness is stronger in the aftertaste than when it initially hits the tongue. This is just average in my opinion, so I give this a C. Nothing bad and nothing really stands out. This IPA is something that you can drink a few of without having the flavor overpower your mouth. The bitter aftertaste is a little off but not terrible. Great Return is not the worst IPA I’ve had. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

This IPA hopped with Comet, Citra, and Mosaic hops is Rocky River IPA from Cabarrus Brewing Co. in Concord, North Carolina, which is thirty-five minutes outside Charlotte. I first had this IPA at the Charlotte Motor Speedway during the NASCAR Bank of American Rovel 400. I thought I should find some for a review. I did. This beer is 6.5% ABV. The brewery is named for the county in which Concord is located. This IPA pours a light yellow with a one-and-a-half-finger white head. The aroma is grass, light citrus, bitter, and lightly malted. The taste is grassy, bitter, light citrus, hoppy, and with a touch of sweetness. This beer has a medium feel on the mouth. Then this IPA has a bitty/hoppy, grassy citrus finish. The aftertaste is light grass and light grapefruit. This is a fabulous IPA that I’d say is A+. The grassy citrus is great and this beer doesn’t overpower your tastebuds. Rocky River IPA is a beer that you need to have. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

This Beer from The Vail Brewing Co. in Richmond, Virginia, is Vent3, a Triple-dry hopped West Coast style IPA. This beer is 6% ABV and is Triple-dry hopped with CTZ, Amarillo, El Dorado, and Nelson Savuin hops. You don’t see many triple-dry hop IPAs, but a few are around. This beer pours a deeper yellow with a three-finger white head. The aroma is fruity (peaches and citrus orange) and resiny, with some pine notes. The taste is fruity (more pronounced oranges) and resin/pine notes. The flavor is also soft and lightly malty. This beer has a fuller feeling in your mouth. Then comes a piney aftertaste with a bit of bitterness. The aftertaste is lightly fruity and piney. Vent3 IPA is good but I can’t really compare this to other triple-dry hopped IPAs because I haven’t had much. But as an IPA this is good, but not great. I give The Vail Brewing Company Vent3 a C+. It’s just above average. It wasn’t terrible, I enjoyed it, and it is not a beer I would tell you not to have. Please stay safe, be kind to one another, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Here is another Burial Beer with a long name. This beer is a collaboration with Charlotte’s Resident Culture Brewing Company. This is Beyond The Reimagination of The Extraterrestrial Occult. This West-Coast IPA is 7.2% ABV and is mashed with pils. Double-dry hopped with lots of Strata and time-matched with Amarillo, Superdelic, Citra, and Strata CGX, This IPA pours a deep gold with a two-and-a-quarter white head. The beer’s aroma is hoppy, bitter, piney, and a bit of fruit. The flavor of this IPA is hoppy, woody, piney, and there is some fruit. The mouthfeel is on the high side of medium. This beer finishes with a bitterness and some citrus notes. Then you get an aftertaste of bitter, hoppy wood and citrus. This is a west-coast style IPA that I give a B-. The flavors are on the lighter side, and they should be a little more pronounced. I would like to have more citrus fruit flavors. But it’s not terrible, I would have this again, and so should you. Please stay safe, be kind to everyone, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

West Ghost IPA from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is a FOMO limited-release beer. My father purchased it from their brewery in Mills River, North Carolina. This IPA is 7.2% ABV and has Magnum, Idaho 7, Citra, and Amarillo hops. This beer also has Two-Row, Pale, and Carapils malts. This IPA is a throwback to a time before all the hazy IPA crazy. This beer pours a golden color with a three-finger big white head. The head is slow to fade into decent lacing. The aroma is hoppy, with orange zest, pine, and bitterness. The flavor is fruity with citrusy oranges, bitterness, hoppy, and it’s piney taste. This beer has brightness to its flavor. The mouthfeel is on the lighter side, but I don’t think I would call it a light or medium-feeling beer. This IPA comes to a bitter finish with some oranges. Then you come to a fruity, bitter aftertaste of pine flavor. West Ghost IPA is a classic West Coast IPA. This beer is an A. It is a sneaky beer because it doesn’t feel like a 7.2% ABV beer when you drink it. But I do recommend West Ghost IPA. It has a classic flavor. Please stay safe, be kind to everyone, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Here is another beer with a long name from Burial Beer. This beer is Experiential Projections Derived From Transcendental Thought, This beer is a West Coast-style IPA. This beer is 7% ABV. This IPA has mineral-driven table water, the palest barely, a touch of kilned malt, and full of c hops. This IPA also has Citra, Chinook, Cascade, Simone, and Cryo. This beer is dry-hopped with the same. Then it is topped with grapefruit slices and pine-drenched simple syrup. This beer pours an orange-yellow color with three fingers of a white fluffy head. The aroma is dry, floral, and hoppy. There is also a faint citrus note. The flavor is dry as well, bitter, hoppy, smooth, and some light citrus fruit. The mouthfeel is a medium feel. Then this IPA comes to a nice dry floral/light fruit finish. The aftertaste is nice and smooth with a litter bitterness and some hoppy fruits. This beer is refreshing and gets an A+. I highly recommend this beer with a long name. It did not disappoint my Taste buds. Please stay safe, be kind to everyone, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!