Citra Solo IPA
Lead Dog Brewing

 

16 oz can from Spike's. Pale, clear golden, fizzy head. Citrus aroma, peel, mildly tart. Taste follows with grapefruit, lemon, tangerine. Light, sticky, tangy.

12oz can dated 7/28/23.

Pours clear gold with a moderate head and retention. Light citrus in the nose. Medium bodied with a soft, thinnish mouthfeel. Crackery malt on the palate with shades of orange. Finishes dry and quenching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kinda wild I haven't reviewed this yet, only been crushing $8/4 packs of it from Winco for like 3 years now.

Pours golden and with good clarity. 1/2" white head, looks like standard beer fare. Aroma definitely pushes Citra hops, tangerine, orange, white grape all over this one.

Taste is a little less breathy white grape as the nose, but its still there but distantly behind the more citrus oriented hop notes. The body is pretty clean, not overly malty like every brewery that wasn't named Revision has made a lifestyle of in the Reno area. It has a relatively dry and clean finish to it, eeking out the old familiar grapefruit hop reference giving it a nice middle of the road hit of bitterness.

Best I can tell, this is their flagship beer (am I dating myself using that term when new breweries make 58 versions of a similar ipa. Its real good and reliable and best of all, less than $2 a can at the grocery store I go to.

Ah yes, Maximum12, great review, you're damn right you never can have enough CWbalBW.

6-15-19

 

I like that this beer is not too hoppy, you can taste the citra! This beer is smooth and citrusy. Another good beer from Lead Dog.

 

Another thank you going out across the plains & mountains to flexabull for this 16 oz. can. No canning date. Bad brewery, bad.

The pour is old IPA, golden without the haze, with plenty of citrus & passionfruit in the nose, with a side of sweetness.

Citra Solo has, well, too much citra. Which is like saying your team wins too much, that lap dance was too long, or I have too much Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Barleywine. Intense white grape with sides of mango, passionfruit, & a hefty helping of sweetness. I’ve never gotten the cattiness from citra that some note, but it’s here…faint, but enough to detract from the experience. Dry. Drier than the Anza-Borrego Desert. Four less ounces would have been fine.

Overall a pretty good beer, but this might improve by subtraction.

Medium gold / orange color with a medium head and mild carbonation. Smell is very citrusy and sweet. A punchy dose of hops but more malty than anticipated. Nice bitter finish rounds out this IPA.

Nice head and color. Weak lacing. Flavor was decent, but it was too fizzy for me.