Azacca IPA
Rivertowne Brewing

 

 

I kinda feel abashed when I am the first in on everything about a beer's entry on this site. I created the beer, submitted the approved pic & now I am the first to write a review! I suppose that it is all in a day's work for the founder & creator of The CANQuest (tm).

I have been off of the CAN Kick for a while, but upon hearing the Crack! & getting a spritz from a brimful CAN, I decided to go with an inverted Glug! I miss doing it, but it cost me my ex-Old Lady who accused me of trying to make a gigantic mess. Ha ha. In this instance, I could not get the CAN through the neck of the glass, so I allowed the CANtents to just run, almost unCANtrollably. I initially had three-plus fingers of massive, rocky, dense, bone-white head, but it slowly began to subside into a soapy skim, leaving intense, sticky lacing in its wake. I will need a jackhammer to remove it later! Color was a slightly hazy Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7), but since it was not 24-carat clarity, The Gelt Gang declined a taste. Nose had a tropical fruitiness, but it was like a roll of Mixed Tropical Fruit Life Savers in that I could not parse them out easily. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was both fruity and bready, more towards pineapple than any other & once more, I thought of Pineapple Upside-Down cake! Man, I have not had one of those in a LONG time. It was not until I really got into baking that I understood the joys of caramelized sugars and what they imparted in that dessert. This was very evocative of those sweet, but baked, flavors. Mmmm. Oh, man, I love IPAs in all of their variegated forms! I am a hophead of long-standing & this sort of thing just sends me. Finish was semi-dry to dry, not quite dry, but pretty close. A lot of people are either scared of hoppy beers or simply eschew them for their inherent bitterness, but I think that this beer might be a good entrée for such people. Me? I'm onto the next beer!