Style: American IPA
Menu description: American style IPA with massive hop and fruit flavor.
ABV: 7%
Tasting notes: No joke about the massive hop flavor! Pretty good if I’m in the mood for hops. Not much apricot though.
Rating: 3/5
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Beer Review #61: Firestone Union Jack IPA
Style: American IPA
Menu description: Lots of sweet fruits, mainly grapefruit, hint of almonds. Typical IPA bitterness.
ABV: 7.5%
Tasting notes: Moderate scent with hoppy floral notes. Much lighter body than is typical of an IPA, which immediately grabs your attention. It’s a very dry beer. Good, but pretty basic. This is a little too bland for my tastes and the dryness doesn’t help.
Rating: 3/5
Beer Review #60: Anderson Valley Hop Ottin’ IPA
Style: American IPA
Menu description: Grapefruit, citrus, roses. Interesting flavor, not like anything I’ve tried before.
ABV: 7%
Tasting notes: It starts out sort of sweet, but that taste vanishes so quickly, you’re not sure if you imagined it. Couple that with the fact that you no longer notice it after maybe a fourth of the bottle and it makes for a strange experience. It’s noticeably more bitter than my eternal standby, Sierra Nevada, which I’m OK with. A bit of variety is always nice. There’s almost a sort of spiciness to it as well, which makes it stand out from other IPAs.
Rating: 3.5/5
