Stairway To Hoppiness
Milkhouse Brewery

Poured from the bottle into a Spiegelau IPA glass.

Solid dark amber body, with large glowing hints of orange and ruby color. Head creation is a uniform off light tan, almost yellow vanilla color. Good small island puck and excellent retention. Good soapy cling, even some ring like lacing, making for a very nice looking beer.

Fleshy aromatic hops hit right off. Comes off a bit wet hop like and very nice. Hits with a bit of leafy greens and grapefruit slightly. Juiced quite a bit as well, with excellent American hop presence.

Palate is taken down by a slightly muted and lighter than expected mouthfeel. Very light bodied, a touch wet and more sensing pale ale like territory. Hop abundant and quite varied. Mid palate mixing with a bit of caramel but also excellent fruit. Grapefruit and wet rind, but a good bit of drying astringency as well. Subsequent sips seem to bring out also some earthy hops as well.

There's a lot of hop play and makes for a good palate experience, but the malt depth and lightness is a bit to weak, coming off like a session IPA in a way. Overall though still gets the job done.