Winter Cabin
Pizza Port Solana Beach

 

 

Copper color with off white head. Nose is pine. Taste is ever so slightly citrus with a piney flavor. Great bitter across the entire palate. Well done beer

 

On draught at Angel’s Trumpet Ale House, Phoenix. Medium gold in color with a little wispy head and good lacing. The smell is a little tame, some citrus and hops. The taste is bitter, citrus, a little dry, not terribly complex or bursting with flavor but it does the job. A little dry also, this is a West Coaster for sure.

 

Big stuff. Pours a more orange color than any IPA I've seen in a long time. Aromatic with wood and leaf mold. Plenty of foam in the Zundert globe and plenty of suds in the mouth. Lots of warm and slightly sweet malt. But the aftertaste is all bitter, and maybe more that you might like. However it's a handsome brawler with big flavors and aromatics. From the 16 oz can purchased at O'Shea Brewing. Dated 01/07/25.

Sampling at Tucson Tap House.
Pours a clear dark orange with a moderate head.
Smells some of roasted malt.
Ok mouth feel.
Tastes some of resin.
Some bitterness.
Fair.

On tap at Pizza Point in Ocean Beach, CA.

Winter Cabin and let’s make it happen. I imagine Santa chilling in one on Christmas Eve too buzzed on a few pours of this to go give the children their presents. Mama Santa is like, “Damn, not again!” And then poor Timmy wakes up with nothing in his stocking and he thinks it’s because he was a bad boy! Hey, Timmy, at least you didn’t get a lump of coal!

Good amount of hop plus unobtrusive yet plus size malting. Fresh and decent, on tap at Oceanside. It could be labelled a hoppy winter warmer. Not bad.

Cabnbed 12/30/24 consumed from a tall tulip on 1/15/25. This is a beautiful beer. Crystal clear pale gold topped by stiff, lumpy 2+ fingers of head that lasts and lasts. Lots of sticky lacing. My olfactory senses and sense of taste can't compare to what the brewer claims this tastes like, but it is quite good and quite complex. Definitely NOT one of those ubiquitous citrus bombs that screams GRAPEFRUIT and nothing else.. I may need to do a couple of these to completely parse out the various flavors. Some bitterness, but not at all overwhelming.; don't need food to accompany this one. .Medium body with carbonation on the mild side. To me, a great example of an American IPA.

 

Packaged on 12/23/24 - enjoyed on 1/12/25 - poured from a pint can into my Dogfish Head shaped pint glass. Hops utilized include: Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, Loral, Idaho 7, and Mosaic HyperBoost.

Nearly clear orange peel/marigold body with a fist of off white soft peaks. Massive, crenellated cap leaves broad sticky lacing in its wake. Excellent retention.

Potent aromatics suggest candied citrus along with mango and stone fruit. Hop presence dominates.

Zesty/spicy palate entry - crushed grapefruit/tangelo and wild berries dance around the edges, but an herbaceous/earthy bitterness asserts itself above all. Vary faintly catty (Simcoe?) at times. Dry, woodsy finish with some returning malty sweetness hinting at caramel and biscuits (malt bill seems slightly less lean than Swami's). Neutral yeast.

Medium-bodied, zesty and crisp; slightly warming.

Complex and unapologeticlly bitter WCIPA - very good.

Pint at their Solana Beach spot. Dark copper color, really nice for an IPA, but makes sense for the winter seasonal theme. Fragrant floral qualities. Herbal. A bit yeasty. Dry. Classic PP WC IPA. Doubt that it’s starkly different from their previous seasonal, Endless Shoreline, but they always hit the mark. Nice.