Yardarm
Royal Docks Brewing Company

12 ounce can into pint glass, best before 12/2/2017. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with aq fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, passionfruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, passionfruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, passionfruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, lemon zest, orange peel, pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate pale malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and zero lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, and bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is fantastic. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is an excellent session IPA! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Really nice dank/vibrant hop complexity, and a nice Munich malt backbone for the low ABV. Possibly Simcoe, Mosaic, and Columbus hops. Never overly aggressive. A really enjoyable offering, one of the best session IPAs I have had.

 

Yardarm brewed by Royal Docks Brewing Company, with an ABV 5.00% This American IPA pours out a nice deep golden amber color with a nice white head. There is also a nice amount of lacing to this brew, it sticks to the side of the glass well. The smell is rich with hop bitterness, earthly grains and malts. There is also a slight sweetness to the smell of this brew. This is a real nice inviting brew, between the look and smell. Now for the taste, it is bold with flavors. You first pick up on the hop bitterness, it is nice an clean. Then you pick on a nice amount of mild earthly grains and malts. The grians and malts tie it all together. The body of Yardarm is a soild medium, nothing to light or to heavy about this brew. This American IPA has a nice balance to it, there is nothing overpowering about this brew. This is a nice smooth American IPA, this brew goes down nice. This brew would go nice with dinner. The mouth feel of Yardarm is , Bold, Hoppy, Rich, Clean and refreshing. Overall I'm giving Yardarm a 4.25 out of 5. I would definitely look this brew up again givin the chance to. Royal Docks Brewing Company, did a real nice job with this American IPA.