Everything But The Kitchen Sink IPA
Two Roads Brewing Company

 

 

A thanks to the incredible woodychandler for this beer. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a rich golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of citrus, tropical fruits. Taste is oranges, peaches, hints of mango, moderate bitterness. Feels medium/full bodied in the mouth and overall is a solid beer.

 

Pours a hazy yellow. Tropical aroma. Smooth bitterness with mild citrus and tropical flavors. Very solid IPA. Not as complex as the name suggests.

 

 

 

Cloudy lemon on the pour, some head and lacing. Aroma is pure hops. Has a complex, very hoppy (T-90 Hop Pellets, Hop Extracts, Lupulin Powder, TNT Hop Blend, Hop Hash & Hop Distillate), fruity (mangoes, peach and citrus) taste that is pleasant, refreshing, and crisp on the finish. Hop heads will love it and others will appreciate it as a well-crafted IPA that is not bitter. I love it!

Poured into a 13 oz Nordic pint glass canned on 7/13/2020. Pours a cloudy orange yellow with a finger sticky white head that leaves thin streaks of lace with solid retention. 4

Smell is tangerine, mango, papaya, and apricot. 4

Taste follows tangerine, papaya, mango, and apricot low on bitterness and balanced. 4

Mouthfeel is a solid medium, soft carbonation, not dry or sticky, and at 7.2% drinks easier and really crushable. 4

Overall this is a nice beer, would be a nice one for a person trying to branch out into NEIPAs. Would easily drink this again. 4

Back to the Post Office for night shift, but first, a beer, a nap, a small meal & a shower. This all includes a review and rating for The CANQuest (tm).

From the CAN: "Made with pride in Stratford, CT"; "The Road Less Traveled Series"; "Everything But The Kitchen Sink IPA"; "Ale hopped with T-90 Hop Pellets, Hop Extracts, Lupulin Powder, TNT Hop Blend, Hop Hash & Hop Distillate"; "A natural, harmless sediment may appear".

I took that last into acCANt as I followed up the Crack! of the vent with an extremely slow, gentle C-Line Glug into my new mug that I purchased at Ollie's Discount Warehouse earlier today. It foamed beautifully to form two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with excellent retention. Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5), in spite of all of my efforts. 8=( Nose was really muted, especially given all of the hopping that was done to it! 8=O It was citrusy, but vague. Hmm. Mouthfeel was medium, but solid. The taste was MUCH better than the nose, with a wide range of fruit flavors from citrus (grapefruit, orange/CANgerine, lemon) to tropical (guava, mango, papaya, passionfruit, pineapple) as well as peach, pine and a white oak woodiness. Mmm. Interestingly, it was not all that bitter for all of those hops, rendering it dangerously drinkable. 8=O No joke, at 7.2%, it should not be this easy-drinking. Finish was appropriately dry & satiating. It better be since I am going for a nap after this! YMMV.

Two Roads Brewing Co. "Everything But The Kitchen Sink IPA"
1 pint can coded "PKG 03APR19 18:24" and sampled on 01AUG19
$5.49 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ

Notes via stream of consciousness: So this is hopped with six different forms of hops? I'm not sure what the point of that is other than to say you did it. It's poured a hazy golden body beneath a finger-thick head of white foam. The aroma isn't that bold but it's quite clear. It's fruity like orchard fruits and tropical fruits. Wow, the flavor is very apple-like but there are other fruits as well: orange, peach, mango, guava, and light pineapple. It's sweetish. There's bitterness there for sure, but it seems sweet at the start. The bitterness comes out about midway and then there's a little bit of pine and they both end up lingering in the finish. It's good, I'm liking this. In the mouth it's medium-light in body and gently crisp. I'll certainly buy this again but I still don't understand the point of using so many different forms of hops, especially the extract. Whatever. In the end it's still a solid page in Two Roads' portfolio. Ahh, I almost forgot, the head retention and lacing could have been better.

Review #6,632

16 oz. Can
PKG: 03APR19

Poured into a Tree House glass a pretty nice cloudy pale yellow color, pretty nice carbonation, with a pretty nice thick/creamy one-finger plus white head, which also leaves some pretty nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is pretty nice, hoppy, malty, with a pretty nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, mango, peach, guava), nice little diesel like. The taste is pretty nice, hoppy, malty, with a pretty nice citrus complex (orange, tangerine, mango, peach, guava), pretty nice diesel like. Medium body, ABV is hidden very well, with a nice dry/bitter finish. Overall, this is a pretty tasty brew, nice to see it around here. Orange Julius! Addictive! Milk Shake!

Picked-up a four-pack of cans at Long Ridge Wine and Spirits for about fourteen dollars. Have had a couple of brews from these guys before. Decent brew, does not stand out.

16oz can. Pours a very slightly murky, mostly clear golden yellow with an inch of frothy head. Some lacing. The aroma is a nice blend of fruits. Melon, tangerine, grapefruit and pineapple. Maybe a note of herbal hops as well. The taste is melon, tangerine, pineapple and mint. Herbal hops a bit at the end with more melon and mint. Medium to lighter body with an oily mouthfeel. Lightly carbonated. Moderate alcohol presence.