Alive & Amplified
Silver City Brewery & Taproom

Hazy gold with a hint of pink. Three fingers of dense white head. Rings of lace form as the levels drop.
Smell is tropical fruit some pine.
Taste is mango orange pineapple and pine. A good amount of bready malt.
Mouthfeel is medium with good carbonation. The finish is medium dry and lightly bitter.
Overall a tasty IPA.

Pours a gold color with a creamy white head. Smells like pine. Taste is balanced but with booze presence. Cloying finish. Drinkable but not sessionable.

 

solid new one from these guys, man they have really taken off in idaho, first a few beers here and there, now all kinds of draft and package, this happened fast! unfiltered looking and tinted just orange, not super hazy, and with a frothy white head slowly settling from the tap pour. it smells and tastes quite fruity, mango and peach come to mind, some bitter pine too right away, gin botanicals, and more sweetness than i think i want from the malt with this hop complexion. the flavor is only sweet up front, more balanced through most of it, and then actually quite bitter and brisk later on, i like the intensity of the hops, and how its multilayered, like it doesnt stay the same from start to finish, its tropical fruity up front with a citrus splash, a little more vegetal in the middle with a spruce hint, and then with some bite on the swallow and a bitter higher alpha tongue leftover. i get an almost centennial woodiness to the hop profile too, making this pretty sturdy despite also seeming rather modern. more body than is necessary, and a little more alcohol too, this would be better to me scaled back a bit, just a little lighter and cleaner and more sessionable. it has not been the hoppy beers i have liked the best from these guys, but this one checks most of the boxes for me. solid and distinctive, if not overly exciting.