IPA Cocktail
Blindman Brewing

 

355ml can - a literal cocktail of guest ingredients, including European liqueurs, fruit, and simple syrup.

This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly fizzy off-white head, which leaves some decent dissipating campfire smoke pattern lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.

It smells of tropical fruit bubblegum, grainy and doughy cereal malt, a mild earthy nuttiness, generic citrus peel, and some plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is much along the same lines - Juicy Fruit chewing gum, bready and grainy caramel malt, oily bar-top nuts, a faint estery yeastiness, a hint of white wine grapes, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and fairly smooth, with a nice airy creaminess arising once things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the frooty and sugary essences holding court in the lingering saloon.

Overall - well, I gotta say, this sure does seem more like a well-made mixed drink (if one sort of lacking enough of the required bittering offset), than any manner of IPA. Sweet, full of flavour, but not something I could see sessioning, as I would have to pull out my handy-dandy tongue scraper after a spell.