Flint & Steel Session IPA
Apex Brewing
- From:
- Apex Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 6.07%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 18, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 20, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
NO SCORE
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Now called Apex Predator ISA
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.93/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
16oz glass at Beer Revolution, the day after Bench Creek's 'tap takeover' last night. Can their ISA maintain the ardor of their kick-ass IPA debut?
This beer appears hazy, medium overripe peach amber colour, with a thin cap of sudsy and bubbly beige head, which leaves some stringy, high altitude cloud lace around the glass as things quickly subside.
It smells of pungent tropical fruit - pineapple, guava, and kiwi - bready caramel malt, a hint of biscuity toffee, and more indistinctly citrusy, leafy, and grassy hop bitterness. The taste is grainy caramel malt, a decent Vermont-esque chalky flintiness, underripe white grapefruit and orange citrus, and more leafy, floral, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its supportive and sometimes playful frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, as the expected hop acridity seem preoccupied elsewhere. It finishes trending dry, the white chalk and various hop essences nudging things in that direction.
While this does seem like a dumbed-down version of an IPA, that's because it is. Good thing these guys were starting off from such a lofty place, then, eh? Nice and fruity, bitter, not too into that whole unbearable lightness of being so common in the sub-style, and with a pleasant slice of that trendy flinty IPA otherness.
Jan 22, 2016This beer appears hazy, medium overripe peach amber colour, with a thin cap of sudsy and bubbly beige head, which leaves some stringy, high altitude cloud lace around the glass as things quickly subside.
It smells of pungent tropical fruit - pineapple, guava, and kiwi - bready caramel malt, a hint of biscuity toffee, and more indistinctly citrusy, leafy, and grassy hop bitterness. The taste is grainy caramel malt, a decent Vermont-esque chalky flintiness, underripe white grapefruit and orange citrus, and more leafy, floral, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its supportive and sometimes playful frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, as the expected hop acridity seem preoccupied elsewhere. It finishes trending dry, the white chalk and various hop essences nudging things in that direction.
While this does seem like a dumbed-down version of an IPA, that's because it is. Good thing these guys were starting off from such a lofty place, then, eh? Nice and fruity, bitter, not too into that whole unbearable lightness of being so common in the sub-style, and with a pleasant slice of that trendy flinty IPA otherness.
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