Golden Boy IPA
Frost Beer Works

 

 

 

 

Poured from a 16 oz can with no discernible date.

Pours a hazy bright orange color with 2 fingers of fluffy white head. Moderate amounts of lacing with a nice bright white film.

The aroma is full of sweet mango and orange flesh, with just a hint of pine and bready malt.

The flavor brings out some grapefruit and orange peel with just a faint touch of mango. Finishes nicely bitter and piney. Very straightforward but pleasant overall.

The feel is watery thin with moderate carbonation. Pretty dry finish but damn son this is disappointing.

Overall, a solid yet completely uninteresting IPA. There's some nice flavors and a rounded bitterness but the thin mouthfeel is a huge detractor.

On tap at the Blackback Pub VT

 

 

 

 

Bottle dated 07/19/2017.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a glossy yellow color with a good transparency about it. Carbonation rose at a good pace to fill a finger's worth of white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Light concave lace slid with the sips of the beer.
The aroma projected a clean full sweet mango fleshy pulp up front with some juice-like quality rolling over some crisp clean sweet piney character. Clean malt paces the backbone nicely.
The flavor was a nice blend of all of those prior notes fully embracing the aftertaste of the mango to pine - crisp, sweet, and full.
The mouthfeel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt on par. ABV felt as projected. Some dryness along with a light stickiness strolls over my tongue, quaint, nice.
Overall, very nicely done AIPA leaning towards that West Coast sort of malt bill but not entirely there to be a West Coast IPA. I'd have again.