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Collective Arts Brewing

Pours a hazy yellow with fine, soapy head.

Smell is fruity with notes of citrus, pineapple and peach with some piney hints.

Taste is fruity with notes of grapefruit, pine, pineapple, grass and greet tea with a moderate bitterness.

Mouthfeel is medium, soft and well carbonated.

Overall, a very nice hybrid IPA. Not really a west coast IPA as the can says, though.

 

473 ml 2026 can consumed on 4 March 2026 near the Adrenal Volcano in Costa Rica.

Appearance. Yellow-golden body with a very good, tall white head.

This IPA features hops with citrus and other more subtle tropical fruit notes and has moderate bitterness for the style. Grapefruit lingers in the aftertaste.

 

Hazy yellow colour with a fluffy head.
Aroma: hops, orange peel, fresh grapefruit, kiwi, tropical fruits.
Taste: bitter hops, caramelised orange peel, some cream. Somewhat sharp grassy bitterness.

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – Expecting a clear brew for a west coast style, but this pours a very hazy orange-yellow color with a small head of white foam. The head fades very fast leaving a trace of bubbly lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is rather strong of a tropical fruit smell of tangerine, mango, pineapple, and papaya. Along with these comes decent showing of an herbal and pine hop mixed light vegetal notes and a bit of citrus hop.
Taste – The taste begins with a bready and oat flavor mixed with some of the tropical fruit and citrus fruit sweetness that was in the nose. The tropical are heavies of a pineapple and papaya, but show some light mango and tangerine as well. The other citrus of orange and notes of lime are there as well, adding a bit to the fruity flavor. The hops are heaviest of a herbal and grapefruit nature with touches of a vegetal and floral hop as well. The taste bitters out a bit more as it advances on the tongue, mixing with notes of hay and a touch of pepper, to leave one with a more NEIPA like taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is a bit more chewy in nature with a carbonation level that is lower.
Overall – Certainly not a west coast IPA, but very much more NEIPA. OK, but nothing too great.

 

 

This is a decent enough beer but it is not a West Coast IPA.
It tastes like a blend of a NEIPA and a West Coast IPA in a ratio of about 60-40 with 60% being NEIPA. It is not dank, piney, grapefruit, clear, crisp or dry. Not all of these are required to be a WC IPA but there needs to be some of these characteristics. As someone who likes WCIPA and does not like NEIPA this is posted just to let others know what they are actually getting. In short, a nice beer not to my liking and unfortunately mislabeled.

 

Sunshine gold pour, touch of haze, foamy white head at about a finger. Nose is tropical and light citrus.

Taste brings mango, unripe guava, citrus with pith, pineapple, light kilned malt, light dough, little papaya. Medium mouthfeel with mild carmel notes. Finish sees lemon dance with the mango out the door, with some citrus length.

Picked up a single can at Curtis Liquors in Cohasset, Massachusetts for about four dollars. My first brew reviewed from these guys. Canned on date of 4/24/24. Ugh. Not good...need to wear glasses.

Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of mango, citrus. Taste follows the aroma, a touch of pineapple, moderate bitterness. Feels medium/full bodied in the mouth and overall is an enjoyable beer.

Idk man this tastes like a five alive juicebox mixed with a branch of a pine tree.

... tried it again and it's a lot better on its own somehow, in comparison to drinking with food. Has a nice full flavour to it. Isn't very carbonated.

At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, from my favourite LCBO at The Roundhouse Centre in nearby Windsor. My second beer from the Hamilton brewery...(was 4)

April 2, 2026: At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 473mL in a pint glass. From my favourite LCBO at Tecumseh Mall in nearby Windsor. Canned August 28/24. My 2nd time drinking this, and 1st for 2026. Wildly recommended by Gracie the cat, with love...