Skinny Legs IPA
White Elm Brewing Company

 

 

On Tap . pours a Hazy light copper color with a khaki head . smell had notes of citrus ,pine oranges and malt . Taste was fruity ,malty had oranges,grapefruit papaya , and baked bread malts a malty IPA but was hoppy not a lot of boytterness and had good garbonation.

Tap pour at Crooked Pint, Sioux Falls.
Cloudy, deep gold colored body. One finger of white fluffy head. Leaves behind thick rings of lacing.
Aroma of toasted malts and floral hops.
Taste follows with toasted malts and slightly sour citrus hops. Low bitterness.
Medium mouth feel. Very good carbonation.
Good appearing and has a distinctive wheat note.

Appearance: Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a one finger head; good retention and squiggly lace

Smell: Bready and piney with caramel undertones; rather dank

Taste: Bready, with caramel malt undertones; the piney hops add bitterness, through the middle; balanced finish with both malt and hop elements

Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderatre carbonation

Overall: A bit maltier than I like my IPAs but a rather old school taste profile despite the hop bill

Thanks, xKURTx, for the opportunity

 

 

 

 

Pours a nice amber color with slight sedimentation floating around. There was very little aroma, but hints of citrus were there.
Somewhat malt-forward for an IPA, but that works. The flavor is piney and bready with slight grapefruit and orange rind notes. The best part was the slightly dank finish.
Sadly, I couldn't find a brew date on the beer. Nothing special but would drink again.

 

 

Poured from a can into a tulip.

Pours a nearly clear golden/amber with a fast-subsiding but ample foamy head. Excellent lacing and foam.

Aromas of ruby red grapefruit and mandarin orange very forward, with peach/nectarine, apricot and melon in the background. A mild herbal and grassy hop note in the background. Only a hint of resin.

Solid honey-sweet malt on the tip of the tongue. The brew rounds out into a variety of fruity flavors, although they are somewhat more muddled than the nose. Vague citrus initially, with some more differentiated peach, apricot, and mango after that. The brew finishes with a bit more resin aggression. A touch of booze as well. Very well-balanced, despite the somewhat vague flavors.

The brew is smooth and moderately carbonated, with a decent drying finish.

This brew is tasty but doesn't seem to quite know what it wants to be. A bit too malty and sweet for a straight single IPA, and a bit lacking in flavor for a DIPA. The booze level straddles the line between the two. The malt flavors are very present but somewhat vague. The hop notes provide good balance, but are somewhat restrained. Overall, it's a nice, drinkable, brew that balances sweet and bitter quite well, but the flavor doesn't otherwise distinguish.

Solid IPA!!

Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 3/18/2019. Big gusher can, lost a couple ounces. Pours very hazy/cloudy deep golden amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, blueberry, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and moderate bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, blueberry, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, blueberry, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and moderate bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly crisp/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.8%. Overall this is a very nice IPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/refreshing to drink for the ABV, with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish, not aggressive. Great Simcoe, Mosaic, Amarillo & Citra profile. Very vibrant and fairly juicy/dank/earthy hops; with a great balancing pale/wheat malt backbone. Mild residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A very enjoyable offering and well made style example. Kind of odd that it gushed with being as fresh as it was, but there weren't any infection off notes.