Shiva Session White IPA
Fuggles Beer

A: Yellow, a bit more golden than straw.
S: Citrusy hops. Tropical fruit. Yeast.
T: Grassy, herbal bitterness. Spicy yeast, sort of peppery.

Not my favourite style, but well executed.

 

 

Poured from a 650ml bottle
A: Poured a hazy yellow amber with a huge head ,i poured very slow but massive carbonation.
S: Strong floral nose.Roses?
T: Very dry with cucumbers and hops, pepper notes interesting taste.
M: Tons of fizz leaves your mouth dry with a lingering spice.
O: I have only tried a few White IPA's this is like a Saison/ IPA crossover to me

650ml bottle, the latest brew to arrive in Alberta from this lower Mainland contract operation, and an indirect reference to the south Asian origins of the IPA style.

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some stellar, tightly webbed lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.

It smells of bready, grainy pale and spicy wheat malt, muted orange and red grapefruit citrus, fairly bitter herbal, grassy and floral greenery notes, ethereal tropical fruit, and a surprisingly gritty yeastiness. The taste is sharp, grainy wheat and pale malt, a bit of indistinct earthy spice, still testy herbal, leafy, and estery floral hop bitters, citrus rind extract, and a further pine forest floor acridity, with the yeast settling down to a dull, cranky murmur.

The carbonation is quite tense and edgy, what with its mostly fizzy, and more minorly frothy headlong assaults on my gentle palates, the body on the light side of middleweight, and not particularly smooth, both the hops and yeast apparently not yet educated in the gentlemanly way of things here. It finishes quite dry, the mutt malt having been bled out, with the yeast and sprightly green and acerbic citrusy hops ramping up for a victory lap around the track.

Overall, a pretty decent blending of styles, as is called for by this as-yet unrecognized version of an IPA. Bitter, yeasty, and fruity (in the stripped-down sense), this one works if you're ok with the corresponding lack of malt and fruit sweetness that certain sports fans might have been anticipating.

650ml bomber poured into pint glass 28/7/15

A Hazy golden yellow, tiny bubbles everywhere and they feed a big three finger foam has great retention slowly falling to an island that looks like a brain, big chunks of random lace all over the side of the glass

S floral, herbal, and spicy hops with plenty of tropical fruit, grapefruit, lemon, sweet orange, grapefruit, and lime, lots of intensity too, I can smell my glass an arm’s reach away, smells great

T lots of rind compared to the nose, faint pine, still plenty of tropical notes but a little toned down compared to the nose

M leaning towards medium bodied but a little foamy, slick on the palate with a mild bitter snap, spicy rind lingers

O great WIPA going on here and clocking in at 5% I could drink a fair bit of it, a little over carbonated but that’s my only real complaint

Worth looking for and has sparked my interest in this brewery for sure, I only bought this one for the label but will grab it a second time for the liquid

 

 

 

Great hop aroma and flavour but hops overshadow wheat maltiness

Smells like a sausage house (coriander and meat)

Taste is much better
Very sessionable as name suggests

Nice hops to balance

6 - 1 deal