Merchant Ship IPA
The Civil Life Brewing Company

 

Copper colored with excellent clarity. There’s a fingernail of off white around the rim and covering the top. Moderate, soapy lacing is present. The aroma is of bready to marzipan malt. I’m tasting earthy hops and bready to marzipan malt. The mouth is dry and lightly sticky.

From a twelve ounce can, this beer is a crystal clear amber color. Modest white head with little tufts of lace. The aroma has a forceful earthy, tree resin and bitter citrus peel note. The taste is similarly bitter with loads of hop flavor...sharp, almost astringent, but flavorful. Balanced on the dry side with a medium body. Lingering hop finish. Love it.

12oz can. Poured out a clear, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It left sudsy lacing on the glass. It smelled of orange, caramel and pine notes. Sweet fruity taste with toasted caramel and a piney bitterness.