Baldr the Brut
Odin Brewing Company

 

650ml bottle - no mention of this Washington state brewery's origin on the label. Yay, contract brewing!

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and sort of fizzy eggshell white head, which leaves some decent spackled snow rime pattern lace around the glass as it slowly but surely evaporates.

It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, faint rubbing alcohol, some stoney flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, some candied red berry and generic citrus fruitiness, clover honey, a damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly restrained in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a touch of booze astringency not making nice with the locals at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the mixed frooty esters predominating.

Overall - well, I'm not yet certain what exactly isolates a 'Brut IPA' (other than being dry, which was already a thing). At any rate, the (contract) brewer states right on the bottle that this offering is boozy - a first for me, I do believe. And ironically, it's not, really, at least in terms of flavour. I won't get back to you about the other sides effects that may occur.

Poured from a 650ml bottle. this one is brewed in the Vancouver,B.C. brewery.
A pretty good Brut IPA very dry as it should be,worth a try if you into the Brut's.