Sicilian IPA
Northshire Brewery

 

On tap at Hinesburg Public house. This was poured into a pint glass. The appearance was a hazy burnt orange color with a bar pour’s kind of slim head that quickly dissipated leaving some stringy lacing sticking around the glass in a messy sort of way. The smell started off with a sharp bitter citrus and lightly glosses over a decent little pineyness. The taste takes the aromas and adds in a light caramel to balance. There’s no aftertaste nor finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. The carbonation was fairly smooth and allowed the bitterness to tame and balance nicely on my tongue. Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA that I would have again.

 

A firmly mediocre beer. Smells much better than it tastes, with the very strong blood orange fragrance. The can design is perhaps the best thing about this beer. Really nice color palette and design.

 

 

Swapped a friend a can of Exhibit A for this. Whyyyyy

A - Poured into my Duvel tulip a dark almost copper hue with a thin half finger off white head that fades to leave very thin lacing.

S - Aromas of big caramel sauce, malts, some cardboard. Smells like a malt bomb, absolutely zero hop presence or orange notes. Faint buttery note as well.

T - Taste is similar to the nose. Primarily caramel sauce and cardboard. Enormous amount of malts here with some very generic bitterness on the finish. Every now and then there is a super brief flash of orange, but, that may be my mind playing tricks on me.

M - Mouthfeel rather lightly carbonated and thin, watery. To be expected I suppose.

O - Overall this was incredibly underwhelming. This is a travesty of an IPA and to throw Sicilian and blood orange on it only makes it that much worse. In hindsight, I would not trade a macro 'lager' for this beer. Wow.

Serving Type: Can

From the 16 oz. can with no date that I could find. Sampled on November 26, 2016.

The pour is an orange tone with a small short lasting head.

The aroma brings out a juicy and orange like character with pale malts underneath. Nothing very forward.

The body is medium.

The taste also has a kind of toasted malt note with a juicy like flavor in it. But this may be an older botle because it seemed a little weak.