Category Archives: USA

4 - Good (buy), American IPA, Beer Reviews, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, USA

Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing IPA

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Brewery: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Country: USA
ABV: 6.7%
Style: American IPA
Other Notes: 40 IBUs. Malts – Two-row Pale, Munich, Oats and Wheat. Hops – Magnum, Citra, Comet, Simcoe, El Dorado and Mosaic

Brewer Description: (from website) A hop-heavy, unfiltered, hazy little thing called IPA. As brewers, we get the privilege to sample our beers straight from the tanks in all their raw glory. Some beers need a little polishing to get ready to go out into the world, while others—the hop-heavy, rowdy, crowd-pleasers—should just be left alone. We wanted to share this brewery-only treat with you, so we present this Hazy Little Thing, our unfiltered, unprocessed IPA, straight from the tanks and into the can.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.08
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9

Intro: A 12 fl. oz. can, packaged on 21st May 2018. Poured into a Spiegelau IPA glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden orange colour with a big almost three finger white head that had good retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Orange, mandarin, lemon, citrus zest and rind, pine with hints of bread.
Taste: Lightly bitter, orange, grapefruit, citrus rind, pine with a hint of mango.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Nice, refreshing and easy to drink.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), American IPA, Beer Reviews, Evil Twin Brewing x Omnipollo, USA

Evil Twin x Omnipollo Rainbownade

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Brewery: Evil Twin Brewing x Omnipollo
Country: USA
ABV: 7%
Style: American IPA
Other Notes: India Pale Ale with grapefruit, passion fruit, mango, raspberry and blueberry added. Brewed for Evil Twin Brewing by Dorchester Brewing Company

Brewer Description: (from can) A refreshing drink often associated with childhood nostalgia to others a pop-cultural symbol of female emancipation. Whatever the association we teamed up with two Swedes, Henok and Karl of Omnipollo to squeeze out a tasty, tempting and deceivingly well balanced IPA with sweet and sour notes of old-fashioned memories.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.82
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A 12 fl. oz. can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: Strange colour… a hazy reddish, orange pink colour (like a dark grapefruit juice) with a two finger, very lightly pink colour head that had pretty good retention but left only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Berry notes of that hard candy kind, berry smoothie, and touches of grapefruit here and there.
Taste: Lightly sweet, sour, bitter and tangy. Mixed berries, passionfruit, strawberry, orange, grapefruit, citrus zest and pine.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: It’s quite nice, its almost there. The aroma was great, but there was just something in the taste that couldn’t quite pull all the fruit together to make it mesh. While not perfect, it still drinks easy and was refreshing.

4 - Good (buy), American Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Sand City Brewing Co., USA

Sand City Infinity Minus One +2

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Brewery: Sand City Brewing Co.
Country: USA
ABV: 8.2%
Style: American Double IPA

Brewer Description: (from website) Double India Pale Ale, double dry hopped with Galaxy and Mosaic hops.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.2
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 1 pint can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A very hazy dark orange colour with a big three finger white head that had great retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Juicy, mango, papaya, melon, orange peel, mandarin with hints of pine.
Taste: Moderate bitterness, grapefruit, mango, melon, peppery, grass with hints of pineapple and sweetness.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Nice with good aromas and taste.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), American Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Sand City Brewing Co., USA

Sand City Even Mo Mofo

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Brewery: Sand City Brewing Co.
Country: USA
ABV: 8.5%
Style: American Double IPA

Brewer Description: (from can) What we’ve done here is created an amplified version of our Mofosaic IPA. This single hop Imperial IPA is brewed with English and American Pale malts and flaked oats. Hopped intensely and singularly with Mosaic hops.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.79
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.6

Intro: A 16 fl. oz. can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A lightly hazy golden orange colour with a big three finger white head that had great retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Orange, grapefruit peel, biscuit, light caramel, pine, pineapple, mango and blueberries.
Taste: Moderate sweetness, biscuit, honey, papaya, pineapple, light bitterness, mandarin peel and rind, and grass.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: It’s nice, but perhaps too sweet a Double IPA for me to fully enjoy.

4 - Good (buy), American IPA, Beer Reviews, Mikkeller San Diego, USA

Mikkeller San Diego Flow Season

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Brewery: Mikkeller San Diego
Country: USA
ABV: 5%
Style: American IPA
Other Notes: Hop Series

Brewer Description: (from can) New England Style India Pale Ale.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.09
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A one pint can with no canned on or best before date. Poured into a Spiegelau IPA glass.
Appearance: A hazy dark orange colour with a big four finger white head that had good retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Light mango, apricot, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, orange rind and strawberries.
Taste: Light biscuit malt, orange rind and peel, grapefruit, with hints of peach.
Mouthfeel: Light bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Not as ‘juicy’ as other NEIPAs, but I like it as the aroma and taste was still good and it just goes down so easy.