The New Old School IPA
Tuckahoe Brewing Company

Pint pour on draught at the brewery. It pours a hazy, golden-straw color with a finger of creamy, milk-white head and soapy lacing. The smell offers biscuity malt, lemon and grapefruit, and soft floral hops. This ale features a solid malt backbone with strong, clean bitterness from the Centennial and Cascade hops. The Falconer's Flight hops compliment the Centennial and Cascade and provide delicate notes of citrus and just a hint of herbal spice. It's quite refreshing. The mouth feel is great: medium-bodied with fairly lively carbonation. It's crisp and drinks easily at 6.5% ABV. Overall, The New Old School IPA is a solid West Coast IPA. I look forward to having it again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 ounce can in a stemmed tulip glass. Canned on 7/19/19 with "Floral Fridays" note. Bought and drunk on 8/9/19. Fresh.

Slightly clouded golden color with a 1/2 finger's worth of white cap. Nice retention and lacing.

The nose is modest. Some caramelized orange, onion roll malts.

The flavors come through as described on the can; lemon-lime and more citrus hop flavors, Earthy pine and a healthy dose of bready malt.

Sturdy malt and lingering hop bitterness fit the bill. The lime kicks in on the finish. Sprite, medium body.

Old school indeed. Across the board IPA - Malts. hops. citrus, pine. Not bad.

 

 

 

 

Tuckahoe Brewing Company "The New Old School IPA"
12 fl. oz can, coded "SCHOOL'S OUT 6/29/18" and sampled on 7/30/18
$1.99 @ Roger Wilco, Pennsauken, NJ

Notes via stream of consciousness: It seems like Tuckahoe is making an effort to get their beers out there more, and this one's got a great label so I found it hard to resist. It's poured a very hazy golden body with an orange sheen beneath a finger-thick head of off-white foam. Particulate is clearly visible suspended in it, I'm assuming from dry hopping. It's not the greatest appearance in my opinion but I'm more than willing to accept it as being to style. The nose offers hop resins, some soft grapefruit, some grassiness, some pine, and some "tropical" notes. On to the flavor... the hops come through nicely with more citrus, and some earthiness and spiciness as well. The malt is biscuity, and easily supports the hops - or doesn't get run over by them. A solid bitterness balances it and it finishes with some long lingering bitterness, earthiness, spiciness, and pine. This is definitely a solid, old school bitter IPA but I guess it's got some new tropical hops to it so that's what makes it "The New" old school IPA. In the mouth it's medium bodied, and it's pretty crisp with a standard to slightly higher than standard carbonation level, and that's helped it to maintain a solid surface covering and leave some very nice lacing about the glass.