Alternative Facts Clouded IPA
Red Collar Brewing Co.

 

Poured from a 473ml can.
Overall a ok IPA not hazy at all really pretty much your standard West Coast Style IPA.
Easy drinking but nothing special but worth a try.

473ml can - a timely and over-the-top cheekily named brew, with a nice label blurb poking fun at the Big Cheese Doodle in Chief.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some chunky cloud form lace around the glass as it slowly and lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of grainy and bready pale malt, some lemon, orange, and white grapefruit citrus rind, a faint earthy yeastiness, subtle chalky notes, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some hard water flintiness, indistinct citrus peel esters, an ephemeral tropical fruitiness, faint yeast, and more understated leafy, herbal, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, the oats contending with a hovering hop bitterness at this juncture. It finishes off-dry, the mixed fruity essences really exhibiting some stellar lingering legs.

Overall, this is a perfectly good IPA, nothing more, nothing less - and hopefully just under the radar enough to escape Sir Trump's cadre of lawyers. Tasty, and not particularly bitter (the beer, I don't know about the lawyers), and thus it is nice to see that the gimmick is solely in the packaging, and not contents - at least here.

A very enjoyable NE style clouded IPA. This is a definite winner, from the tongue barely in cheek packaging to the actual beer. It is lovely, fruity, refreshing and perfect for bemused Trump watching.