Simply Simcoe
Portage Brewing Company

L-Clear light golden color

S-Botanical..pine....evergreens...touch of bready malt....fresh..

T-Nice clean flavor with notes of pine, and citrus...

F-Medium bodied

O-Real quality beer here...old school IPA with good hop flavor without the sweetness of the Hazy IPA's...

Liked their fresh hop so much I decided to give them another try...this is the fourth of a 4-pack of tallboys, into tulip. Pours a clear deep gold with a very nice snow white head, very good retention and very good lacing. Nose is heavy and kind of vegetal and tropical fruit -- there's a good amount of hoppy goodness there, but the particular notes struck don't really do much for me, and I find it kind of muddled. On the tongue, more of the same, with a faint sugary edge: it's not bad, but it is kind of soggy and heavy (not in the body but in the fruit notes), there's nothing that really grabs my attention: no bite or liveliness or dankness or pillowy softness...a 3.5 might be a little low because it isn't bad, but it is fairly middle of the road. Carb is a little low, the body is medium.

Pours a clear golden color with very little head. Smell is citrus ,pine malt and grassy herbal notes . Taste follows the nose herbal and piney with grapfruit and caramel malts . Mouth feel us undert carbonated muted taste and just average .