American Day Trip (Extra Hoppy Golden Ale)
Enlightenment Ales

 

 

 

 

A- Pint glass pour at a bottle share. Some yeast haze around in the glasses. Big, foamy white head forms with some huge bubbles and a few fingers tall. Good retention but it eventually falls to a puffy ring and pillow. Nice clouds of lace around the glass.

S- Some nice lemony and citrus hops atop something that reminds me of French Saison Yeast from Wyeast. Spicy, floral, tropical fruits, tangerine, peppercorns and coriander come to mind.

T- Follows the nose quite nicely with that French Saison Yeast feel and a good amount of hops coming to mind. Good lemon, orange peel, peppercorns, coriander, tangerine is big.

MF- Foamy and somewhat creamy light-end dried out body. Fairly bitter and just a tad of tartness.

Nice sessionable Saison with a decent amount of hop flavor reminiscent of the hoppy Pale Ales of today. Good balance and use of flavors.

 

Like this more with the American hops, especially in the smell, where all things green are there: pine, grass, flowers and light fruits, the smell of spring time, but delicately so. Taste is rounded out better with the american hops, cuts into the extreme yeast and carbonation better. Still a little too carbonated for me, but bright, light and bubbly feel is nice and drinkable

 

 

 

Bottle with a handwritten "American" written on it (all american hops), seems legit. Just released this week. No batch info.

A: Cloudy pale orange pour. Big effervescent white head. Head fizzes pretty quickly but has great retention. Big fluffy chunks of lacing everywhere.

S: Nice crisp grapefruit aroma. Light bready malt and a touch of pepper.

T: Again with the grapefruit up front. Swear I get a little pineapple even? Decent hop punch but not some over-the-top DIPA of course. Mild grainy bread for the malt, not much as this is only 4.7%. The finish has some cloves and a little bit of pepper, white pepper I think? Touch of hop bitterness here too. Hint of hop resin.

M: Surprisingly medium bodied and smooth.

O: Nice hoppy BPA. This one supposedly only has american hops, wish I knew what was in it. I'd have to guess citra and...hmm not sure. Almost thinking simcoe but I don't think so. Anyway, not a huge west coast DIPA but at the same time it's very hoppy for a BPA. Nice hybrid. Crisp and flavorful at only 4.7% ABV. Drinks easily too. Nice session beer. Way better than All Day IPA, IMO - only making the comparison due to the name and ABV.