Ricky Spanish
Local Craft Beer (LCB)

Poured from 16oz can into my BeerAdvocate teku. No date on the can that I can see.

Appearance: medium golden hue with a moderate haze that is frankly perhaps a little light for something billed as a “hazy IPA”. Head is a finger of frothy ivory foam that doesn’t leave much lace on the glass.

Smell: holy … bananas?? Sweet with perhaps some tropical fruit flavors, but the main character here is a banana Runts type of thing which is way more suited to a hefeweizen than an IPA. Not bad, per se, but really weird.

Taste: what even is this beer? Kind of weirdly … spicy? Like a rye beer, but also with the hefeweizen banana thing, but also some slightly dank hoppiness. Like a … dry hopped roggenbier? This beer is exceedingly strange. I don’t hate it, but man, I don’t love it, either.

Mouthfeel: medium body with a pretty good carbonation and creaminess.

Overall: I mean, it’s a combination of “not what I was expecting” and “just kind of a weird flavor profile”. It is very possible this beer will find its audience. I am not that audience.