Save The Galaxy
Parkway Brewing Co.

 

 

 

Bottled on: 2-6-24

A - Bright medium gold colored pour with dense creamy white foal resting on top and light carbonation.

S - Tropical fruit, some herbally citrus, and a little bit of resiny pine.

T - Citrus, grapefruit, herbally, red grapefruit, a little bit of grassyness, berry, and shows a sharp resiny pine bitterness on the back side.

M - Medium body with gentle carbonation.

O - Despite the current score of (84), this is an under the radar sleeper worth checking out. Nice West Coast right here.

A good, solid, bitter IPA!!! Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass, this beer features a mostly clear gold color and a big foamy white head with lots of lacing on the glass. Complex flavor - balanced between maltiness and both piney and fruity hoppiness. Mouthfeel is crisp and bitter - richer than most - because of the prominent malt presence. Very enjoyable beer, theway IPA's were before the NEIPA achieved such prominence.

A- pours a semi cloudy golden color, great head and retention gobs of lacing

S-dank hops, pine, grapefruit, very floral woodsy and powerful

T- not as pronounced as the aroma but still good. Tangerine, grapefruit, subtle malt undertones. 8.3 abv completely hidden

M- smooth and pleasant

O- it’s good, and dangerous as it tastes more like a 5.3 instead of 8.3 abv

It is a bit difficult to read the date code, but above the bar code on the label: "01/30/23 10:27"

Appearance: The body is gold with a refraction that makes everything appear larger. It has a light bit of haze which also makes everything look a tad fuzzy. The head is short, white, and somewhat creamy textured. There are a few spots of lacin here and there.

Aroma: It smells extremely skunky with notes of burnt garlic and burning tires. It's bad.

Taste: The aroma characteristics make it into the flavor profile unfortunately. Up front there is burnt garlic flavor, which is sharply followed by what can only be described as a flavor which mimics the way a skunk smells. It also tastes the way burnt rubber smells. There is some pine tar near the back of the palate. It tastes as bad as it smells.

Mouthfeel: It is hard to focus on the body of the beer because it has this horribly burnt and charred bitter flavor, but it is medium-light. Bitterness is overly strong and doesn't fit the beer or the style at all. It is a difficult beer do drink.

Overall: It is an odd beer that lets one explore the gradient scale of bad. I would not drink it again. I highly recommend against it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A solid beer, looks copperlike, smell is unremarkable, taste is sharp and hoppy and holds true to an IPA flavor, has a delicate citrus flavor, feels sharp and smooth at once, I do enjoy. A solid IPA from Parkway, potentially my new second favorite, behind Get Bent.

Had this on tap at a winery of all places. Starts off on a very strong hoppy bitterness. Once you get past that, though, lots of fruit flavors come through. Very good beer.