Ella IPA-Ace-Experimental-Aussie
Postmark Brewing

 

650ml bottle - I think whoever added this one here got a little too excited with the naming!

This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some nicely spaced and tiered frilly lace around the glass as things slowly recede.

It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, pleasantly muddled tropical fruit esters, a bit of domestic citrus rind, and some zingy leafy, piney and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, an appreciably lessened caramel sweetness, a touch of biscuity cracker, some hard to pin down exotic fruitiness, orange and white grapefruit peel, and a further herbal, piney, and gently perfumed floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly robust in its poking and prodding frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a hint of verdant astringency taking a chink out of the metaphorical armour here. It finishes trending dry, the hops pushing the envelope, and in a bitter, rather than fruity manner.

Overall, this is a pretty fine IPA, on its own, as the label description is not particularly close to the actual experience with this brew. Lots of forest floor detritus abounding, and drinkable enough at the given and reasonable ABV level. Worth a go, especially if you're any sort of fan of the style.

Poured from a 650ml bomber into my IPA glass, 5.9ABV, 52IBU, First of there experimental IPA series with Ella Aussie hops.
L: Pours a clear light golden amber with a thin white head a some nice sticky lacing.
S: Pine and floral with grassy hops.
T: Pine resin and hops, the Ella leaves a nice bitter finish that lasts.
F: Medium body somewhat oily mouth feel good carbonation.
O: I nice B.C. style IPA almost a session IPA nice a hoppy great bitterness,