Strictly 80’s Joel
Sand City Brewing Co. - North

This is a solid imperial IPA. It's a yellow color with a white head. The aroma is a sharp hop driven citrus and the hops continue into the taste. It's unmistakably an IPA with the distinctive fruit and bitter combination.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tall can...1/31/18....collab with Green Port Harbor brewing.

Glorious NEIPA hazed pour, great looking fields of fine lacing left on the glass.

Ripe pineapple and grapefruit on the sniff

Flavorful and quite delicious brew, more pineapple, more grapefruit...spicy and herbal drying hops in the finish....more great stuff from SC....get over there asap and enjoy some of their high quality offerings

Medium gold and hazy in the NE-style, with a few fingers of head and ample lacing left behind... Aromas citrusy and zesty, with floral undertones... More of the same on the sip, zesty citrus fruits, complemented gentler stone fruits and a vague hint of floral pine and some huskier malt impressions... fairly full bodied but soft and smooth, albeit with some tingle and tang... 2/2/18 can release collaboration between Sand City and Greenport Harbor, featuring Galaxy, Motueka, and Denali hops... Very good...

 

 

 

 

Poured from a 16oz can into a speiglau IPA glass.

Look is incredibly cloudy orange with a white billowy head.

Aroma is astrigent orange with a juicy sweetness.

Taste is deliciously citrusy hoppy with a touch of pithy bitterness.

Absolutely incredible.

 

 

 

Friday release (today), gotta love it...this pours cloudy yellow gold color with the classic SC 2 finger foamy white head that was packed with bubbles, fading very slowly and leaving excellent foam spider web lace and thick rings as it went down. Textbook NE style IPA, Webster's could photograph it.

Smells like grapefruit, weed, skunk weed, onion, lemon zest, orange peel, crackers, biscuit, tangerine, caramel or candied sugar, light piney notes, floral hops, resin or very earthy notes and light peppery spices. Don't know what Denali hops smell like, but this aroma has a lot of earthy and cannabis in the mix, which brings out nice sweet fruity notes that blend with the citrus hops and malty backbone. Sand City noted that it was made with Galaxy, Motueka and Denali hops.

Tastes is spot on and matches the nose: grapefruit, clementine, lemon, orange peel, lime, sharp citrus fruit, apple or melon (something else fruity), biscuit, light piney notes, toasted grains and/or crackers, onion, caramel, floral hops, tea leaf, coriander, earthy notes and light peppery spices. Complex and extremely well balances, it is very well constructed.

Mouthfeel is light and on the thin side with very mellow carbonation, mild texture and a citrusy ending that's on the tart side but still maintains a really fine bitterness level. It flows down super easy for a DIPA.

Another Long Island powerhouse brewing collaboration. They got this right as the bitterness level is near perfect and the drinkability is as good as it gets for a freshly canned DIPA. No trace of the 8.5% ABV, a highly recommended brew.