Acrodectes IPA
Mountain Rambler Brewery

 

Pours a foggy golden-orange with a finger of white foam. Aroma is mango, papaya, and tangerine out front with pine and resin pulling it back towards the west coast IPA style. It's a good blend of west coast style with tropical fruits. Flavor profile is mango, resin, papaya, tangerine and pine, forming a delightful - and dangerously drinkable - flavoring. Mouth feel is slightly fizzy and effervescent which slows down the otherwise gulp-ability of this beer. It has a medium thickness. Overall, a solid IPA that does well to combine typical west coast IPA elements with trendy, citrus-heavy, low-bitterness attributes. Perhaps not worth the drive to Bishop from Lone Pine, but it's dangerously close.

Draft. Reviewed from notes.

 

Just passing through on the way home (Arizona) after stops in San Francisco (a trek to Russian River in Santa Rosa) and the Beer Mecca of The NW (Bend, Oregon - Crux, Boneyard, Sunriver, etc). Decided to have their IPA offering. A decent beer, far from the worst I've ever had, and several steps from the best. If passing through I'd give it a go, but after having Pliny The Elder and a plethora of beautiful IPA'S in Bend I would be untruthful if I said it holds up to any of that. On a ten-point scale I'd give it a 7.