The Project: Session IPA Series - Calypso/Lime Zest
Platform Beer Co.

 

Pours a clear golden yellow with a frothy white head that leaves some lacing. This beer looks amazing, like it’s straight out of a commercial. Constant carbonation streaming up the glass. Smell is lime, citrus hops, fruit rind, with sweet notes and some malt. Taste starts with lime and citrus, moves into an earthy hop profile, and finished with a lingering hoppiness. Mouthfeel is smooth, with some bitterness to the palate. Nice carbonation, good balance of flavor. Overall an interesting beer, a nice flavor profile for a style that could use some experimentation.

Poured out of a 12 oz. can into one of my pint glasses, this beer pours a mainly clear, medium golden color with numerous streams of little bubbles very rapidly and continuously rising to the beer's surface. Has a fluffy looking white head that's about 2/3 of an inch thick when first poured with good retention and good lacing too. Aromas of some bready, slightly toasted, grainy malts with hints of sweetness and pungent, dank, earthy, and citrus hops. The addition of lime also comes through on the citrus aspect of the smell. The taste is pretty much the same, with slightly toasted, somewhat bready and grainy malts with a touch of caramel sweetness that gives way to the dank, earthy, and slightly citrus hop bitterness that is accented nicely by the addition of the lime. The flavors are nicely balanced, but the hop bitterness flavors do dominate the overall flavor profile somewhat. Has a mainly crisp, yet fairly smooth, frothy, and creamy, medium bodied mouthfeel with moderate carbonation. has a very clean finish with a nice bitter bite in the aftertaste. Easy to drink in the way well crafted beer of this style ought to be. A solid effort all around here.

Eric