Atomic Punk IPL (India Pale Lager)
Berwick Brewing Company

A: Poured a bright tangerine orange with a slight haze. The head was smooth and firm, paperwhite in color, and maintained very well, lapsing to a whispy covering while leaving a slight spotty lacing. Visible carbonation was light-medium.

S: The nose was sweet and sugary pink grapefruit with fresh pineapple fruity notes. Very smooth and refined in nature, and citrusy sweet.

T: The flavor started off sweet, with pink grapefruit pulp and tangy citrus before proceeding to a floral hopping of pine and wet citrusy hops. The bitterness was moderatly strong, well suited per style, and lingers for a quite a bit. The overall flow and transition of flavor was nice, starting with some sweet sugary grapefruit and finishing with a well bittering finish that lets you know this ipa is packing the hops. There is some grassy notes as well with the overall hopping being very smooth, and refined, never harsh and bitter, rather well rounded, but packs a nice linger punch on the finish and fade.

M: The mouthful had a good carbonation bite with an assertive tingle on the tongue. The body is medium full, edgy from the carbonation while leaving a bittering finish of floral citrus.

O: Good drinkability, one certainly worthy of multiples and suitable as a very good summer ipa with just the right amount of hops and body making this a smooth drinker. I did however detect the alcohol after 3 servings. Im glad I picked up a growler of this. Chalk one up for the little guy in Berwick, a well brewed and clean example.

 

A-Slightly hazy copper kissed golden yellow with a medium white head that reduced to a thin capand left nice lace.

S-Aggressive floral hops with just a touch of malt sweetness. Notes of fresh cut grass in the background.

T-Bright citrus, floral and grassy hop notes up front bursting forth from a lightly sweet, crisp biscuit malt base. This is a lager after all but hopped like an IPA.

M-Medium-light bodied sharp and crisp with nice lingering hop bitterness.

D-A great job on the mending of styles. All the aggressive up front hops of an IPA with the sharp, crisp, biscuit malt refreshment of a pilsner. A mighty easy and tasty drinking brew.

Thanks to ClockworkOrange for sending this growler along. An IPL wow, true fully I had a homebrew one a while back so it's not my first but I still cant figure out the style, I'll go by an IMP Pilsner in my mind because it is the closest thing I can think of.
Growler poured into my Pilsner glass produced a good finger worth of white head that went to a good covering of lace. The body of the brew was a somewhat hazy golden yellow in color.

Aromas' of nice floral hops filled my head upon bring the glass to my lips. This is where I start to get confused with the style. It has a great hop profile, citric, flowery and grassy, but is meant to be a lager and I will tell you I can't get any malts from it at all. I like the nose I get from it if it was an IMP Pils, it would get high marks

Flavors are hop forward as well light crisp hop bitter with a touch of malt sweetness in the end, but with the mouthfeel of Pils, light and carbonated. Like I said it's a style bender.

A great drinking beer, I am having no problem going through this growler. I may regret it not knowing what the ABV is, but hey it's my weekend. I don't have to get up tomorrow. Thanks again Jason


BTW what is up with this I am the first one to review it but I don't get the credit of adding it to the database