Side Kick North East Session Ale
Bridge Brewing Company

Copenhagen 11/8 2018. 47,3 cl can from Viti Liquor Store, Central Vancouver. White can with something looking like a topographical map in the background.

Pours hazy golden orange with big white head. Settles as thin, patchy layer of foam and a thicker rim along the side of the glass. Very moderate lacing.

Aroma is intense and citric. Orange juice with hints of lime and Grape fruit. Subdued sweetness. Light notes of slightly decayed fruit.

Light carbonation. Soft, thin, watery, slightly flat texture. Flavor is medium sweet nicely balanced by medium bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter. Finish is semi-dry.

Nice aroma and flavor but a bit too thin to hit my mark.

473ml can - they need to update their 'pouring instructions' to show the different packaging vector.

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden apricot colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some tiered streaky lace around the glass as it quickly sinks out of sight.

It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some pineapple, guava, and kiwi tropical fruitiness, generic domestic citrus rind, a strong flinty stoniness, and more earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery cereal malt, muddled citrus peel, equally indistinct exotic fruity notes, a tame earthy yeastiness, some hard water minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and dank piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of hop acridity maybe taking things down a notch or so here. It finishes trending dry, the malt still taking a beating from the lingering hop bitterness.

Overall - well, they've gone and produced a pretty bang-up apery (ok, 'homage') to the American NE style of IPA (of any booze level). This one is murky and chewy, punching way above its 4.2 points of ABV, and for that, I gotta give props - great stuff!