Brewery: O/O Brewing AB Country: Sweden ABV: 6.8% Style: American IPA Other Notes: Brewed by O/O Brewing at Stigbergets Bryggeri in Gothenburg, Sweden. Pronunciation guide: O/O Brewing = Oh! Oh! Brewing
Brewer Description: (from bottle) Our Narangi is an IPA brewed without any fruit. Only pure hop juice. Made primarily with Mosaic with support from Citra and Columbus.
My rating: 4 My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.16 My ratebeer.com rating: 4
Intro: A 330ml bottle with a best before date of 3rd November 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. Appearance: A hazy murky straw yellow colour with a one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly but left some nice lacing. Aroma: Juicy tropical but unripe mango and papaya with citrusy orange rind and lemon with maybe a hint of grapefruit. Taste: Bitter orange rind and grapefruit to begin, followed by breadiness, mandarin, pineapple and mango. Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate to light carbonation. Overall: A balanced and enjoyable IPA that is easy to drink.
Brewery: Pipeworks Brewing Company Country: USA ABV: 8% Style: American Double IPA
Brewer Description: Not much info on the can or the official website.
My rating: 4 My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.5 My ratebeer.com rating: 4.4
Intro: A 1 pint can, canned on 14th April 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. Appearance: A slightly hazy golden orange colour with a two finger white head that had good retention and left great lacing. Aroma: Very nice tropical mango, peach and pineapple with hints of citrusy orange rind. Taste: Grapefruit, mango, caramel, bready malt, pine, orange and orange pith giving it a nice bitter finish. There was hints of booze here and there, but this doesn’t take away from how good it tastes. Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Overall: A very nice DIPA that is balanced and with great flavours. Very close to being a must buy for me.
Brewery: Cigar City Brewing Country: USA ABV: 7.5% Style: American IPA
Brewer Description: (from can) Jai Alai, the “merry game,” is a game native to the Basque region of Spain. Tampa was once home to this high speed game, but sadly all that remains here is this India Pale Ale that we brewed in tribute to the merry game. Pair Jai Alai India Pale Ale with Empanadas, Deviled Crabs and other spicy dishes.
My rating: 4 My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.98 My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9
Intro: A 12 fl oz can with a canned on date of 21st March 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. Appearance: A slightly hazy light copper orange colour with a two finger slightly off white head that had great retention and left lots of nice lacing. Aroma: Lots of citrus grapefruit peel, orange rind and lemon with hints of tropical pineapple and pine. Taste: A nice sweet-ish malty caramel and biscuit backbone, followed by some nice citrus grapefruit and orange with a touch of pineapple and a mildly bitter finish. Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Overall: To be fair, perhaps this was hidden in my fridge a bit too long. It was however, still well balanced and enjoyable to drink.
Brewery: Beavertown Brewery Country: England ABV: 7.4% Style: American Black IPA Other Notes: 75 IBUs. Malts – Best Pale, Caragold, Caramalt, Carafa II and Carafa III. Hops – Colombus, Chinook and Citra
Brewer Description: (from website) So it’s a contradiction in terms. A Black India Pale Ale?! The concept we came up with revolved around the old chewy sweets ‘Black Jacks & Fruit Salads’. We wanted to take a big, fat IPA and lace it with under- tones of slight roast and aniseed and blend with the huge tropical aromas of Pacific West coast hops. We gained the hint of roast by using Carafa malts from Germany. They give us the dark colour and a touch of roast but minimal bitterness, thus letting the hops fly and fly!
My rating: 4 My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.33 My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2
Intro: A 330ml can with a best before date of 1st September 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. Appearance: It was a dark dark brown colour with a one and a half finger tanned head that had good retention and left some nice spotty lacing. Aroma: Citrus peels with some nice roasty malts and cocoa. Taste: It’s pretty much what you would expect from the aromas with nice citrus flavours, balanced with roasty malts and hints of chocolate and coffee. There is also a lingering grapefruit finish. Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Overall: A good Black IPA that is very easy to drink. It’s 7.4% ABV but feels very sessionable. Quite a dangerous combination.
Brewery: Three Floyds Brewing Co. x Mikkeller ApS x Warpigs Brewpub Country: USA ABV: 12% Style: American Imperial Stout
Brewer Description: (from website) The Black Flame (La Flama Negro). It burns bright for those who care to notice. It takes a true beer lover to stray from the norm and experience real flavor. If you can’t handle the black flame, you can’t handle adventure. Made in conjunction with Mikkeller.
My rating: 2 My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.42 My ratebeer.com rating: 3.2
Intro: A 22oz bomber, I think bottled in 2015 (but nothing clearly marked on the bottle). Poured into a snifter. Appearance: It was black in colour with a dark brown hue on the sides and a one finger mocha head that had decent retention and left some nice small spotty lacing. Aroma: Orange citrus fruitiness and milk chocolate with hints of roasty coffee and some kind of spiciness. Taste: Milk chocolate and molasses sweetness, roasted coffee and orange citrus with a hint of dark chocolate bitterness. Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with low carbonation. Overall: You’d think that orange and chocolate flavours go well together, and it started off ok enough. But after a while, it just felt a bit too sweet and hard to finish. The orange was overpowering compared to the chocolate and I think it would have been better if it was the other way around. Just didn’t quite work for me.
words of another dreamy traveller 