Shipwreck IPA
Great Waters Brewing

On-Tap - Yeah, they did it, finally something I can boost about for this place. Nice IPA!! Color is a hazy cloud of light golden honey, thick loose creamy colored head about an inch high, fades slowly to a good bubbly skim always present and curtains of lace. Smell is a nice grapefruit and lemony souring and with good pineyness, fairly juicy and fat aroma of hops. Taste is more of the same with great grapefruitish sourness, a bit piney with moderate amounts of bitterness and juicyness coming through midway and gives a nice long lingering finish of the hop bitterness; excellently done with a solid medium body and is pretty easy to handle compartively speaking to some of the monsters. I could have alot of these and never get sick of those hops. Again somethin to be proud of at Great Waters and at the same time my artwork is on the walls; how fittingly special eh.

On tap at the brewpub...

Clearish dead-on medium amber color, very frosty 1/4 inch light tan head. Very attractive and substantial lace adhesion. Appropriate orange citrus aroma, about average for American IPAs in hop smell. The flavor is bigger, solid grapefruit pith early and overwhelmingly, the malt gets little chance to muster just a bit of mid mouth sweetness. A little bit of a honey sense on warming (Great Waters serves pushed beers too cold). Lighter body. Not piney or resionous like its Winter "Marnie" Gras sister beer, this is still pretty cutting and acidic. Almost an impression of a distilled Three Floyds Alpha King. A little too unbalanced.