Gravity Check IPA
Building 8 Brewing (BLDG8)

A- Snifter pour from the tallboy. The body of the brew is slightly cloudy and the cap rises to about an inch high with decent retention. Thick creamy belt at the edges and webs of lacing.

S- Fruity, dank and citrusy hops. Opens up with a mix of tropical fruits, onions, weed and oranges atop of moderate sweetness and a hint of base barley. Has a sort of orange marmalade character balanced by the floral, dank and spicier hops.

T- A bit of a shift here as the dank weed and oniony hops become a bit stronger alognside some floral, herbal and spicy notes. The fruit joins the show with mediums strength as apricot, pineapple, grapefruit and bittersweet oranges. Medium sweetness and again has that jammy character.

MF- Medium body that leans towards the light side with a moderately high carbonation level. Ends with a clean moderate bitterness. Texture is silky and foamy.

Solid effort with a nicely balanced hop profile that displays citrus fruits, dankness, floral, herbal and stone fruit character.

No can date
Pours a decent fizzy head with fair retention, very little lacing, mostly clear slight hazy golden honey blond color

Nose brings hops, little grassy and floral but also fruity, a little generic fruit, citrus zest and mild grapefruit, not much else and pretty tame

Taste brings very little malt, mostly hops with fair bitterness, an herbal tea like iced tea flavor with touch of lemon, mild citrus zest, hops get spicy and bitter on the back end, little grassy and herbal late too, drier finish very bitter

Mouth is med to lighter bod, mild but decent prickly carb

Overall not bad, nose is very muted but taste brings plenty of bitterness and decent hop flavors, def wish there was a bit more unfermentables or malts or something to prop it up a bit even for session low gravity. Also not sure how old it is and some aromas may have dissipated

Not bad, but nowhere as tasty as some Bldg 8 stuff I’ve tasted in the past. Mainly some dry cracker malt notes with some subtle hops and lemon and pepper notes. Kind of reminiscent of some British pale ales.
I think I may have gotten a bad can in my 4 pack (it had a dent), because I didn’t like the first beer I tasted from the 4 pack. I had a another can from the same 4 pack later and it tasted much better, more balanced.

 

 

 

Simple yet attractive 16 oz. can containing an excellent product. Very tasty IPA with a surprisingly moderate 5.5% ABV. Could be considered as a session beer but it's much tastier than most IPAs I've normally found in that category. IMO, the best product I've tasted from Bldg. 8 and definitely worth a repeat purchase..

 

16 oz can into IPA glass.No date.
Very nice cloudy golden look yeilds a nice tropical juicy nose. Taste follows the nose with nice juicy front and a little grapefruit bite at end. Nice light to medium feel. Overall very easy drinking beer and I would buy it again.