Wild IPA
Category 12 Brewing

L: Pours a cloudy, orange copper body, a good number of bubbles, and two fingers of white head.
S: Citrus fruit, tangerine and pineapple, slight spicy profile
T: Definite citrus taste, mildly spicy, and mild spicy finish, along with a hoppy bitterness.
F: Surprisingly light, crisp, refreshing for an IPA, good carbonation.
O: A good, citrusy, refreshing IPA. An enjoyable balance of crisp citrus, slight spice, and light bitterness. Not quite the strong hoppy flavour I'm used to in an IPA, but I'd recommend this one.

 

 

Appearance - Pours a deep golden amber with three fingers of bubbly foamy white head.

Smell - citrus hops, tropical fruits, peach, bready malts, spicy yeast.

Taste - Moderate punch from the citrus hops followed by the tropical fruits and peach. The bready malts and spicy yeast help to round out the beer.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes a tad sticky with a pleasant lingering bitterness.

Overall - An IPA that delivers on the citrus front. This is my first go of the Elemental Series from Category 12 and it is a good IPA that can stand out with the ISA's and other IPA's out there.

 

 

 

this bottle (650ml) must of been a bad batch.
bought from BC liquor store April 5 (no date labelling)
ipa color, golden-copper
taste, just smoke flavor? weird
drain pour, very dissapointed

Loads of citrus hop aroma flooding from the glass, on the sweeter side - orange, tangerine, bit of graperfruit. Touch of pine. Pours a dense, near perfectly white head like frothed egg yolk. Solid retention. Body is apricot/copper, slightly hazy due to the yeast left in the bottle, but a beauty nonetheless.
Body is unexpectedly light, with a soft, pillowy mouthfeel. Obscenely quaffable for an IPA - and it does have plenty hop bitterness, which picks up more in the finish and lingers, leaving a reminder of pleasant spruce and grapefruit peel. And that head is still sticking around, amazing.
Overall a delicious and approachable IPA, requiring just a bit more flavour complexity to make it really top shelf.

 

Great beer.
I find the medicinal wild yeast charteristics really come through on the nose, without much else coming through.

But I love everything else about this beer.
The colour is a gorgeous orange with a big sticky foamy head that leaves a lovely lacing on the glass.
The mouthfeel is sweet but prickly in a wonderfully Belgian way. This beer really comes across as a Belgian ipa which wins a lot of points for me.

The flavour is all citrus. Pineapple, grapefruit, orange with just a hint of funk. Hard to get past all that citrus to find the wild esters underneath, but this is a profile that REALLY works for me.

If you like a fruity Belgian IPA (like me) you will love this beer. Outstanding.

Big puff over cloudy dark brass. 4
Mango and grass. 3.75
Thread of toffee, tangerine and papaya, some chalk, peach and slight cheesy linger. 4.25
Fizzy, crisp, light+. 4

El Dorado and Azacca

Big fruit but looking for the funk. 3 months old when I bought it but did this somehow chill too soon? There is pineapple, but I’m betting that’s the Azacca, not Brett. The WLP648 Brett Brux Trois Vrai needs more time, I think… Still a yummy IPA; C12 are winning me over. 4.25

650ml bottle - what, a 'wild' brew without M. Brett involved? Sign me up, I guess.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with a still teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and creamy eggshell white head, which leaves some sudsy Continental Drift lace around the glass as it eventually sinks away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled candy-friendly tropical fruit notes, a thankfully subtle earthy yeastiness, mild spicy esters, and some growing leafy, herbal, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, still hard to pin down exotic fruity measures, a pleasantly understated zingy yeastiness, separate domestic citrus rind acerbities, and more testy leafy, piney and somewhat soused-up floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly underwhelming in its quotidian frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, as that meek funky thing kind of has a certain dulling effect here. It finishes trending dry, the malt's bottom threatening to fall out, and the weak IPA-worthy hops picking up their heretofore heady slack.

Overall, this is one of the better beastie-afflicted IPAs that I have yet to come across - not sure why this isn't classified as a Belgian IPA here (actually, I am, but I'm not in the mood to call out inept fellow users - wait, whut?). My only real complaint is that the IPA side is kind of tame for a West Coast offering - not bad, but maybe a bit more of the over the top resinous bitterness would be my unsolicited suggestion.

650ml bomber poured into tulip 19/1/17

A bright golden yellow, enough clarity to see plenty of bubbles feeding a well sustained two finger of foam that cakes the glass with random lace

S mango, pear, some floral, spicy notes, the yeast plays a big part but stays juicy

T more citrus and spicy yeast compared to the nose, rind comes out late

M medium weight but a little foamy, some grit on the palate then it strangely ends slick and oily

O yeasty spicy, and hoppy, not sure if the yeast profile helps or hinders

I liked it but didn't love it, the yeast might play to big of a part when the hops are trying to shine. I sound harsh though, it is well worth a try and quite enjoyable.

 

 

 

 

Poured from a650ml bottle into my IPA glass.
A: Pours a Light golden with very thick white head and spotty sticky lacing.
S: A mild spice hoppy nose.
T: A super mild IPA some spice and bitterness.
F: Very carbonated lots of small bubbles but a nice clean finish.
O: Well a nice overall beer but i would say its hard to call it a IPA its almost a hybrid saison IPA mix.