Hoppy Buoy
Garrison Brewing Company

 

Amazing beer, great taste and wonderful experience.

 

Clearish amber with a moderate head. Mild citrus hop nose. Medium malt body with a pleasant level of pithy, pine hoppiness. Good IPA.

 

 

 

 

Serving Type: 341 mL Bottle

L- Pours a coppery orange colour topped by a creamy white 1/2 finger head. Decent enough retention. Light lacing.

S- The aroma packs a ton of citrus, tropical fruit, and a little bit of caramel malt on the side. Very juicy stuff!

T- Same as the aroma. Has a distinct orange peel bitterness on the finish that I really enjoy. Juicy and refreshing taste.

F- Medium-Light body and moderate carbonation. A good combination in this case that makes things all the more refreshing.

O- Tasty, Juicy IPA from a great Maritime brewery. Definitely will buy again!

 

 

341ml, twist-off bottle - a self-styled American IPA, with a nice East Coast moniker.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with two zaftig fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some defrosting rear windshield lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, musty mango flesh, spiked grapefruit juice, further indistinct tropical fruit notes, a bit of hard water flintiness, and some earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is pithy orange, grapefruit, and mango flesh, gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee thing, still hard to parse tropicals, and more leafy, grassy, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame in its merely quotidian frothiness, the body a solid-ass middleweight, and mostly smooth, perhaps a touch of acrid hop bitterness taking a nick out of the proceedings here. It finishes on the sweet side, between the sturdy malt backbone, and the big (ooooge!) lingering fruity esters.

Overall, this is one large and in charge IPA, with lots and lots of hoppy character to go around - it is sweet, yes, but the citrusy and piney (mostly) essences keeps things from going off the rails. Tasty, quaffable, and certainly something that makes this fella a 'hoppy buoy'.

Pours a deep orange to amber body that is slightly hazy, with a foamy, off-white head the decays in a lacy film. The aroma has lots of tropical fruit and some faint garlic sharpness, with large portions of mango and tangerine coming through on the nose above all else. In terms of taste, the beer enters the palate with an immediate onion/garlic sharpness, leading into an array of bright tropical fruit and a faint maltiness across the palate, leading into a bitter termination and long lasting effects. Incredibly smooth, with perfect carbonation. My only complaint is that this beer really is all fruit and no traditional malt base, though I think this is standard given the way the beer style has evolved. I don't think I would go to this all the time for an ale, though it is certainly something I would buy to spice things up every once in a while.

 

A: pours golden brown. 1.5 fingers of offwhite head which lasted five or so minutes with decent lacing

S: mango, tropical fruit, pine.. Mild grapefruit

T: follows the nose pretty well.. Nice malt backbone

F: medium carbonation.. Medium light body.. Very drinkable

O: pretty decent IPA. My sister grabbed a six pack for me from Spryfield, NS.. Live in Fredericton, NB. Definitely going to get her to get me another six pack or two!