Single Whammy India Pale Ale
Twin Sails Brewing

 

 

650ml can - no info on the label that explains the difference between this, and say, Street Legal.

This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some stellar webbed lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of gritty and biscuity cereal malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, faint lactic notes, some hard-water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, some muddled domestic citrus rind, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more earthy, piney, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really out of sorts at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the malt, citrus, and forest floor detritus all joined at the lingering hip, as such.

Overall - this comes across as a well-made IPA, one that kind of bridges the gap between East and West (by using Aussie hops), and the result is pretty darned good. Crisp, balanced, and a pleasure to quaff on another sunny and relatively warm December afternoon.