Bodhi’s Last Ride
Fair Winds Brewing Company

 

On tap at brewery:
The body is solid gold is color and clarity, to my preferences. There’s something keeping it just short of having pure clarity but it’s pretty close. The various dotted vertical lines stream upward at seemingly different rates, but all support a thick collar that doesn’t stray from the surface to the glass.

The nose has a little spice and light grain toast with some tangerine and lemon marmalade slathered on it. There’s some tropical skin and grass notes as supporting characters.

Taste starts with the lightest of toasted bread, and a bit of spice that seems almost like a dull hop burn. The carbonation is noticeable but soft with a body that is light leaning medium, the feel presumably a little fuller from the oats, as the brewer intended. Candied ruby grapefruit/tangerine/lemon act as the fruit components. The beer is lightly bitter, as if all 12 units of bitter can be felt on the clean, lighter malt playground.

So, this IPA is some form of old school pale ale with some new school hop techniques. Its malt profile seems light enough that the hops get the spotlight, which could just put it on the Indian side of the American/India pale ale divide.