Session IPA Citra
Mikkeller ApS

330ml can, part of a quartet of these single-hop session ales to arrive around here of late.

This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some dissipating cloud form lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.

It smells of mildly dank pine resin, blood orange, red and white grapefruit, some indistinct tropical notes, and a gritty and grainy caramel malt sweetness. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, a lessened caramel thing, muddled domestic citrus rind, pineapple core, still muted exotic fruity notes, a mild earthy flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite active in its palate-poking frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of citric acridity maybe taking a minor tithe here. It finishes trending dry, the crisp malt and various fruity and green hops flitting about, without a care in the world.

Overall, this is an enjoyable and rather hoppy 'session' brew, without that De Proef house yeast character, which is always a plus. Very juicy and quaffable, making for an easy-going experience, especially for those moderate IPA drinkers out there.

 

 

 

On-tap served in a stemmed glass at Mikkeller Bangkok.

Hazy pale yellow color, it comes with thick white fluffy head that stays with excellent retention before slowly collapsing to an everlasting foamy layer on the surface and leaving plenty of sticky lacing wave all around.

The aroma is all you could expect from Citra. Citrus, grapefruit, lime, passion fruit, tropical, mango, pineapple, and some piney resin. Malt is there in the background with its biscuity touch.

Very well balance in the taste with all those hoppy characters stated in the aroma nicely mingle with good biscuity malt bill. It is not too sweet nor too heavily bitter.

Light to medium body with good crisp and lively carbonation through the palate, smooth mouthfeel with a refreshing touch and dry finish.

Good Citra IPA without doubt, it is light, crisp, sessionable, but still very tasty.