Tip Hop Spruce White IPA
Dead Frog Brewery

Hazy and bruised peach colour with little carbonation and three fingers beige head.

Smells of citrus, pine, a hint of Spruce, mangos and pineapple.

The taste is of acrid, sour tropical fruit, and some pine, a deep bitterness that taste like chewing on Pine needles, Slightly tart with plastic qualities.

Light Body with a tart puckering bitter finish, and moderate to low carbonation.

I got this in Inverness, BC, and drinking in Redding California September 19, 2019.

Rich gold with a good head and lacing. Citrus hop nose. Lighter body with crisp finish with light pine notes. Easy drinking.

650ml bottle - quite the uptick in available spruce tip brews of late - I thought that might be an Autumn thing, but, nope.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some randomly streaky lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bland domestic citrus rind, subtle earthy yeast, and some plain leafy, grassy, and sure, sprucey green bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a touch of earthy black pepper spice, some still ephemeral yeastiness, wet forest floor detritus, a meek orange and white grapefruit citrus joint, and some more understated weedy, floral, and musky verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly meek in its timid-seeming frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the various green esters take things down a peg or two here, as it were. It finishes off-dry, the malt trying earnestly to re-assert itself against the spruce tips 'n friends who have brought the lingering rain.

Overall, this is a simple ale, on all accounts - Belgian yeast, American IPA, and hippie-ass spruce tips - all of which kind of meld together into a straight and true drinkable concoction. If that sounds sort of dumbed-down, it's because it is, and they have nothing to apologize for, IMHO.