Lost Highway - Galaxy IPA
Brazos Valley Brewing Company

RB transfer

Featuring Galaxy hops.
This is a west coast IPA with a clean appearance. I get some light stone fruits and a flora orange citrus note on the sip. It's a good one.

 

can dated 1/28/21; today is 3/17/21

pours a slightly hazy mellow yellow gold body that clears up around the edges, and produces a large foamy white head with relatively low retention and leaves only the occasional lacing clinging behind as it settles to a murky cap

aroma is fairly strong punch of galaxy hop; clean bursts of peach, bright citrus, passion fruit, and grass with a doughy and caramelly sweet malt backer.

taste follows the aroma pretty straight up; lush, clean, slightly tart, and a dash of grass towards the end

mouthfeel: moderately high carbonation and medium-light body; smooth and clean with low grade carbo prickles; finishes slightly dry but with a fairly strong earthy grapefruit-hop bitterness in the aftertaste that lingers.

overall:
super solid and easy and satisfying Galaxy hopped IPA. it's not the most complicated thing, but I don't think that was their aim here either. it is a solid example of the Galaxy hop and would serve great in a flight showcasing specific hops and definitely as a session IPA

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a clear golden amber color with a one finger head of white puffy foam. The head has a great level of retention, fading over time to leave a little bit of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is very strong of tropical fruit smells with lots of pineapple and papaya as well as some notes of tangerine. Along with these smells comes notes of a doughy smell as well as some aromas of a light grapefruit and pine hop. There is also quite a big aroma of a more confectioner’s sugar like smell, with the rest of the fruit and doughy, create a sweet and fruity smell overall.
Taste – The taste begins with a rather bready flavor mixed with some flavors of tropical fruit that was detected in the nose. The tropical fruits are mostly of a mango and papaya nature but are mixed with a little bit of a tangerine. Right from the start there is a decent hit of some herbal and pine hops as well as a touch of a grapefruit flavor. The pine and herbal grow stronger as the taste advances and with a bit of an increase in the sweet as some sugary tastes come to the tongue. The bready also becoming a bit more doughy in nature, and in the end, one is left with a fruity sweet, but somewhat more dank hopped taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a carbonation level that is average. For the mix of danker hop and fruity tastes the feel is quite nice and makes for an easy but well appreciated feel.
Overall – A rather good, more tropical IPA with a nice hit of dank herbal and pine. Overall well worth a try and one I would go back to again.

 

 

 

 

Serviceable IPA. The Woodlands TX. April 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poured from a can into a tulip glass.. clear yellow color with good white head and good lacing. Lemon smell. Taste is fairly standard: citrus and bit of pine with a pleasant bitter finish. A good IPA.