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Stoup Brewing Brewery & Taproom

Poured from 16oz can into my Bell’s tulip. Canned 11/12/24.

Appearance: medium golden hue with just the tiniest dash of haze and a finger of frothy ivory foam atop.

Smell: moderately sweet malt with an herbal, lemongrass-ey aroma. It’s not bad at all.

Taste: sweeter than the aroma suggested, and with a slightly more subdued hop character, and a somewhat high bitterness that builds on the palate. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t quite entirely come together for me.

Mouthfeel: medium body with a big carbonation and a good creaminess. My guess is that whatever’s adding all that sweetness is also adding some decent body.

Overall: like I said, not a bad beer, but the hop character needs to have its volume turned up a bit in the flavor, to balance the sweetness and the bitterness.

 

 

a tasty ipa made for summer drinking, light on the malt but not watery, just dry and simple, and dosed generously with mandarina bavaria and huell melon hops, which give the beer a sort of delicate hop profile, but a very distinct one of tangerines, lemons, limes, melons, and pineapple, really fruity, clean and grassy light though, very european even with all the fruit happening in it, and only moderately bitter, almost more of a pale ale than an ipa, at least as it finishes. these hops are awesome, and are deservedly getting a lot of attention these days, but its cool to have them together in the same beer, and to have the grain side be light enough for all of their nuances to be appreciated in the final product, this is a killer recipe and nicely executed. golden in color and perfectly clear and radiant, with an inch of white head on top and some patchy lace as it drinks. crisp almost in the finish with the hops, some tropical fruit residuals, but the beer is dry and the carbonation is there. this is an excellent warm weather ipa. my first beer from these guys too! good stuff!

edit: i liked this just as well the second time around, really quality ipa here!