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Stillwater Artisanal Ales

Reviews all over the map. I'm fan of brewer, but light on this session IPA. It's 11th review here.
a) From a can purchased at the Brooklyn Park Slope Coop, pours a clouded pale, straw yellow body with decent lace and a wispy head.
s) Faint aromas of tropical fruit, principally mango and pineapple, and plenty of citric tang.
t) Again the myriad fruit but with greater intensity of bittering over the sweetness.
f) Light bodied, crisp, prickly.
o) There are better, such as boat.

This brew has a huge, foaming head...white and intense. The liquid is hazy and light straw color. Citrus and fruit in the aroma. It smells like tropical fruit. The body is medium. Interesting.

 

 

 

Purchased as part of a make your own sixer at my local specialty shop. I drank it from the can so I didn't really get a good look at it. Aroma was of wheat, citrus and hops. mouth feel was thicker than I had expected. Flavor was citrus, wheat, and tropical fruit with a hoppy dry finish. Overall I quite enjoyed it for the style.

Canned on 10/4/17

Appearance is a hazy straw-gold with a cottage cheese head of white, 2 fingers, leaving lots of lace behind.

Aroma is faint, of straw and stiff hops, slight pepper and bubblegum.

Taste is crisp with flavors of straw, hay, chalk, grainy malt, and lemony hop. The biggest thing going for it is that it's clean.

Feel is pretty substantial, has a fair bit of chalk. Has a crispness to it, clean finish.

Overall, with the consistency of carbonated Maalox and the flavor of grainy malt and lemon, this wasn't exactly impressive. Still, a crushable beer, and at 3.8% it's still pretty darn tasty. Can't imagine making something with this much flavor and low ABV. Not bad.

 

 

16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 10/4/2017. Pours fairly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big ruby red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, light pepper, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/pine hops and moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big ruby red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, light pepper, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel, floral, grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of ruby red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, light pepper, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops and moderate pale malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and zero astringent hop flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is fantastic. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 3.8%. Overall this is an outstanding session IPA! All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Quite tame on the lingering bitterness overall. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Extremely juicy citrus hops with a nice wheat/spelt malt backing. Tastes like Cascade/Amarillo, love the classic hop profile. A highly enjoyable offering.

 

 

 

 

 

Grabbed a can at the Beer Shop in East Longmeadow, MA. The beer pours with a bubbly head that quickly dissipates and is somewhat murky with a yellow appearance. Decent aromas of wheat mixed with citrus oranges. The taste excels beyond the aromas with a sweet, mango-orange flavor. Good carbonation, medium body. Overall, I really enjoyed the flavor and mouthfeel of this beer.