Wheelhouse IPA
Market Street Brewing Co. and Restaurant

Enjoyable. Drinks more like an English IPA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decent IPA, nothing remarkable but nice, easy drinking.

7/4...cleanup. Pours bright gold, but darker. Cap of white foam. Citrus.fruity nose. Tropical blend. Somewhat buttery mouthfeel, pineapples. Very light bitter.

 

 

This one's called Wheelhouse IPA, it seems. On tap at Market Street Brewing Company in Corning, NY.

Pours a light yellow, with a fizzy 1/2 inch head, and a moderate amount of lacing.

Smells like pine, caramel malt, and a little bit of grapefruit.

This one is apparently hopped with 4 different hops, but the over-riding flavor is certainly pine. Doesn't seem as complex as a 4-hopped beer would be. There's a bit of citrus sweetness, grapefruit mainly, with bready and caramelly malt behind it, keeping it balanced. All in all, an uninteresting but still tasty IPA.

This has a medium amount of carbonation, with a crisp mouthfeel. Fairly drinkable.

One of Market Street's better beers, but still nothing to write home about.

 

On tap 8/1/2011
Pours a deep copper color with a decent white head that leaves lots of sticky lace down the side of my glass. Smells of bitter citrus and pine mixed with intermittent hints of bread and caramel. Finally something with a decent nose. Taste provides a decent bitter "bite." Citrus and pine vie for attention with grapefruit coming out on top. There's a smattering of malt in here bread toffee and caramel, but the bitterness keeps them in check. Resinous sticky mouthfeel, medium body and carbonation level. Good IPA, my favorite beer from Market street.

The beer pours a dark gold color with a thick frothy white head that slowly fades to lacing. The aroma is average. It's not as hoppy as advertised. It's also lacking in complexity. The malt aroma is average at best. The taste is average as well. It has a bitter hop bite that dominates the flavor, but I'm not a huge fan of the choice of hops. Also, there are some off-flavors here. I'm not sure if it's the yeast or the malt bill. The mouthfeel is decent. It is a medium bodied beer with adequate carbonation. This is an average IPA. It needs to be retooled or just forgotten about.

A well-balanced IPA. IBU 68 but not overly bitter. Faint C hop aroma. Lots of lace. Mid-mouthfeel. A light yellow colour. An average IPA all-around but that's all they need and all I expected, and my expectations were met. Drinkable and something you can stick to, with advice to novices to try their other beers first as your taste buds will be assaulted at these bolder beers.

Draught @ Brewpub: This one pours an orangish color. There was a very small off-white head on it. The nose was pretty piney, but not overpoweringly so. Not too much else to it. The taste is pretty much that of piney hops. Lighter to medium malt body behind it. The taste was relatively bitter. A bit harsh and unbalanced.