Page Turner
Situation Brewing

Page Turner pours into my glass slightly hazy and the color of polished copper. The head is rocky, white, and lasting.
Page Turner's nose starts off assertively hoppy. Hop aromas are ripe, juicy citrus combined with grapefruit pith and pine needles. As with many good American IPAs, Page Turner gives me a hint of grain, combined with unbaked bread dough and notes of yeast. A gentle earthiness also provides an interesting through note.
On the tongue, Page Turner is medium bodied with an assertive up front dryness. The center gives me notable graininess mixed with not very much flavor of caramel. Hop profile comes in strong at the end, giving me woodsy hop flavor. Woodsy hop flavor moves quickly into a decently assertive bitterness. Unfortunately, that bitterness combines a little to easily with flavors of grain and up front dryness.
Overall, it's a good smelling beer, with aromas of hop and malt that make me eager to take that first sip. Unfortunately the flavor profile has a sort of grainy dryness that only serves to accentuate the hop profile a little too much. Without that up front dryness, this would be a really good IPA with medium bodied mouthfeel and flavors of caramel. As it is though, the dryness detracts from the overall experience a little too much.

One of my favourite IPAs. High IBU but doesn’t taste bitter

 

 

 

 

 

Like being hit in the head with a grapefruit.....in a good way

A five ounce glass as part of flight......saved it for last because of the advertised 80+ IBUs. Amber-coloured with about a 1cm head that faded quickly to a nice lace. Tons of citrus on the nose, such that I was worried it would be over-hopped. Not the case, as a caramel malt carried this thru, and the bitterness lingered. There won't be enough bubbles for some, but I liked the slightly creamy mouth-feel. Red Racer and Fat Tug just got some competition north of the border.

 

 

16oz pint at the brewpub, on a pleasantly active Friday afternoon. Seems like I've 'reviewed' the majority of these offerings before, yeah, but now's not the time for that - #gonelive!

This beer appears a mostly clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with one skinny-ass finger of wispy, loosely foamy, and faintly creamy ecru head, which leaves a beautiful array of well manicured garden hedge lace around the glass as things lazily recede.

It smells of somewhat dank pine resin, overripe lemon and blood orange pith, grainy and lightly doughy caramel malt, a twinge of earthy yeast, and more mixed leafy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, muddled domestic citrus notes, some of that Vermont hard water flintiness, fading dry yeast, and some consistent leafy, earthy, and herbal hop bitters.

The bubbles are fairly restrained in their barely palpable frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, the otherwise game hops maintaining a sense of decorum at the moment. It finishes on the sweet side for an IPA, as the bitterness bleeds out, and the left over fruitiness, in conjunction with the lingering malt, calls the shots.

Well, for a nascent craft-brewed IPA, this works on so many levels, not to mention the perky older (sorry, it's pertinent info) server's enthusiasm for it when she inquired as to my opinion after the fact. Whatevs, there are a ton of all the things good about the current IPA world inherent in this brew, and that's all that matters right now.