USS Vermont
Microbrasserie Le Corsaire

 

Draft: Poured an amber color ale with a nice off-white foamy head. Aroma of grainy malt notes with dry hops notes is OK. Taste is dominated by some grainy malt bill with some dry hoppy notes with some bitterness noticeable. Body is about average with good carbonation. Something is off with the malt bill and not very close to your typical NEIPA.

 

473ml can @6.0 % ABV. A New England style IPA, and named after an early 20th century American warship from said region.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some random sudsy and chunky lace around the glass as it lazily seeps away.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, orange and white grapefruit citrus rind, a hard water flintiness, and some earthy, grassy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, saltine crackers, muddled domestic citrus peel, faint tropical fruity notes, old stone paths after a good rain, and more zingy leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly low-key in its workaday frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, as the hops here seem to be of the benevolent sort. It finishes off-dry, the malt, citrus, and forest floor detritus essences lingering on well into the night.

Overall - this is a pretty accurate stab (as far as I can ascertain) at this particular sect of the IPA world. Crisp, and rather easy to put back, in the sense that I could really go for another one of these right now, which isn't something that I am typically prone to say.

On tap at Broue Ha Ha. Good IPA.good orange hop aroma. on cask . orange colour. dry and mot delivering hop flavour. a tad astringent and yeasty. Decent cask.