Session IPA
Crate Brewery

Solid golden color with a thick thin head with short retention.
Nice tropical aroma with notes of mango, cantaloupe, pineapple, stone fruit, a bit of green resin and bread.
Flavor with notes of green resin, stone fruit, oats, wheat, passion fruit, ginger, mango and tangerine peel. Dry and bitter aftertaste.
Light velvety body with appropriate carbonation.
This felt like a Session New England IPA with lots of tropical and green resin notes and being actually hop forward given its light body.

another cool english hoppy beer on cask that sort of blurs the line between old school and modern, and i like that. they have several of those in here, low alcohol, well conditioned, and bitter but also flavorful from the hops. this one is a little more robust on the hop side than their golden ale, and has a little less grain structure, its really light, and seems fresher than the rest of them, without the minerals and even metallic elements at the end, probably the most american of all the beers we had here, although the english ale yeast type is still evident in the aroma and flavor. the hops have some generic citrus to them, and are just a little more forward than the other aspects of this one, not out of balance, but leading. this also seems fresher than many of the others from a hopping perspective, and possibly is more dry hopped too, the aroma is really bright. crackery biscuity malt in the background, dry overall, and with a less than medium body and pretty good lift from the cask, mellow but not dead. an all day drinker that should appeal to hoppy beer fans from all over the globe. the cask beers we had here were better than almost anywhere else around london...

canned in a crafty craft can
pours a slightly hazy barley sugar colour body with big foaming white head that sticks
grapefruit and white wine vinegar aroma
so the hops rush forward in the flavour then the taste falls away to a thin but okay ale

CAN
Crusty white over hazy amber. 4
Orange tree leaves. 3.75
Carr’s backbone, then Tang, nettle, Sunny D, and grass. 4
Lt, snappy, some oil. 3.75

Summit, Chinook

Two kinds of orange here: a touch of juice but also a sweet powdery hit. Shame, then, it’s wrapped in such a watery package. I’d never normally say that about anything 3.6%, but Crate needs to cross London and let Gipsy Hill show them how it’s done. 4