6 Foot 6
West O Beer

12oz can into a pint glass
L: Pours thick bright caramel amber w a lot of loose sediment churning, a thin eggshell white head that recedes to edge foam, light carbo bubbles, light random lacing.
S: Sweet malts, light grass, a hint of honey, grains, lightly floral.
T: Sweet rich malts, rural honey, citrus zest, melon and melon zest, a hint of berries, light cereal grains, a suggestion of light brown all-grain bread.
F: Lightly crisp then moderately flat, med-bodied feel w a fast moderately dry finish and a light linger. Lightly sticky.
O: A slightly bitter IPA with frwd melon and citrus zest, a subdued feel and a fast, dry finish. A sweet foundation with a bitter canopy. 1/2 West coast USA 1/2 British. IMHO it tastes and feels better with warming as the maltings gently ebb into the hop profile. Good to very good in its style.

 

12oz bottle. Poured out a clear, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It smelled of citrus and pine with some toasted notes. Piney/bitter hop bite up front with some citrus and toasted caramel.

Poured from a growler filled yesterday.

Golden liquid with a quickly fading head.

Smells of caramel, grain, faint candied peaches, watermelon.

Taste is faintly butterscotch, grainy, grapefruit pith, watermelon rind, orange zest. Somewhat sweet.

High carbonation, medium body. Finish is overly sweet and the bitterness fades too quickly.

Not a spectacular example of an IPA although enjoyable nonetheless.

 

Pours a golden color, smells like fresh hops and wort, some dry grain from a homebrew store. Tastes like dry macaroni and canned peaches. Light pine. Feel is resiny, carbonated. Wouldn't return.

Nice American IPA, poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Description is accurate, bitter fruit but also some malt.

 

Poured from a 12 ounce bottle into a Shaker pint glass, "best by" date 9-14-16.

APPEARANCE: pours a clear, golden color with less than one-finger white head that quickly dissipated until just a few patches of small bubbles remained, there is some lacing, lightly carbonated.

SMELL: bread and a dank earthy smell, this smells more like a Saison than an IPA.

TASTE: the taste follows the nose, bread and then a dank earthy note, the hops are really absent, just butterscotch malt and yeast.

PALATE: lightly carbonated and medium body.

OVERALL: is this really an IPA? I did not really enjoy this beer, I have an expectation of bold hops from the IPA style and this beer was really lacking, the dank earthy note was off putting, I will not buy this one again.

I had a 4 oz sample of this poured at the brewery. It's very hoppy and pleasantly citrusy, but not grapefruity as is the case with a lot of IPAs. Not my favorite style of beer, but well done.

 

L (3.75) - This beer is nicely colored with a straw color and very clear. No head whatsoever though.
S (4) - Some slight hop aroma. More of the piney than anything else.
T (3.5) - Tastes okay. Not a huge hop presence and it's definitely more of the floral/hop than anything. I think that my bottle was old or something, because it was just missing something. Good malty syrup tastes though!
F (3.75) - Not overly carbed and fairly easy to drink.
O (3.75) - I'm not a huge fan of this brewery, and this beer didn't do anything to change that. It wasn't bad, but rather plain. Not something I'd consider 6'-6"!

 

Aroma is fruit and fresh cut grass. The flavor is butterscotch, toffee, pine needles, grapefruit, malts and a mix of spicy, bitterness and mild alcohol in the finish.

Bottled 4/21/16. Poured from 12-ounce bottle into Luminarc stemless wine glass. Dark, clear copper color, two fingers or so of snow-white head that leaves some nice lacing as it dissipates. Aroma really pops at first, with a burst of pine and citrus. Then the notes of sweet light caramel begin to come through. The taste is a little unbalanced on the malty side until it warms from fridge temperature, but the promised fruity notes never quite came through all the way. Still, a pretty good beer, and one that I'll revisit.