Practically Perished
Revision Brewing Company

Can poured into a Revision Brewing Co beer glass

A: Pours crystal clear straw yellow with a frothy white head that settles to a light layer and laces very nicely.

S: Citrus, tropical and stone fruit mixed with Nelson fruitiness, floral, slight dank herbal notes, a touch of pine, cracker malt, and light caramel sweetness.

T: Floral, pine, classic Nelson mixed with a solid hit of citrus, white grape, gooseberry, lemon, lime, and tangerine, some tropical and stone fruit, passion fruit, mango, apricot, peach, lychee, and guava, faint herbal notes, crackery malt, and light caramel sweetness.

M: Medium body, moderate carbonation.

O: They packed some great flavor into a lower % IPA. Super drinkable and the complexity kept building as it warmed.

 

Ah here is one of those rare 2021 reviews for a beer recently consumed in 2021. As the prior review indicates, this is quite underrated here. When you look at the abv and the older school aspect of this west coast ipa through and through, you see a trend or two.

Anyways, pristine golden pour with good clarity and 1/2" white head. This is the look you're looking for, screw them droids. A very nice hop aroma, a mixture of green orange blossoms, danky weed, hippie grunge, lemon drop, tangerine, overripe guava. This knocks your socks off with dank Nelson and Citra. Amarillo is there, but seems to be just more Citra like with its 'help'.

Taste is a delight. Super crisp and light pilsner malt allows the Nelson hop's loudness to shine, while the Citra holds its hand and keeps things low key enough to not piss of the more restrained house guests. Like the dankiness is quickly shown the door with enough bitterness to rough things up if need be, but he exits without a scene in the mouthfeel every time. This is a party. Absolutely one of the best beers from Revision, which makes it a strong contender for best beer in all of Nevada.

brutally underrated here thus far by my meter, one of their best to date, especially being clear, come on, this is great beer, juicy enough to dethrone others, but clear and refined to a degree rarely seen. they maybe make light of doing a clear beer this good, but revision should not be overlooked in the classic west coast types either, and while this isnt bitter, its literally pliny good, and that cannot be overlooked. the hop profile is awesome, a little hard to place varietals for me but thats a compliment not a detriment, its so cohesive, pink guava and blueberry and wildflower honey and green grape and mango and pine and good craft gin. its not dry but isnt sweet either, has the right hop oiliness and liner, the hops permeate my palate and stay even when the beer itself is long gone. medium bodied, fizzy enough, and lighter to drink than most of its peers even with some body. dynamic and bold and fresh on the hop side, they may have outdone themselves which is really saying something, and this ends up among the ranks of their very best, top to bottom this is what i want ipa to aspire to, a tip of the cap to the new school but thoroughly timeless, i adored this even though i didnt need another beer at the moment. elite level clear ipa, even a category leader right now, this should be permanent in their lineup...

edit: in a less fresh can this has a strange yeasty ester going on, almost chemical, and right in the center of it, at first seemingly intentional and compatible with the hops, but later too intense and sort of conflicting. obviously fresher is better, thats always the case with hoppy beer, but this seems to be transforming pretty rapidly for the weirder as the weeks go by. leaving first impression scores in place here, but drink up!

16oz can from Brewers Haven. Clear golden pour with a tight, foamy white head. Aroma is a nice blend of sweet, grainy malts and fruity hops, light citrus. Taste favors the hop profile, fruity, sweet, resiny, drying out at the finish. A bit sticky and mouth coating but fairly gentle on the palate and not a bitter hop bomb as one would guess from the moniker "West Coast IPA".

 

I haven't had a Revision beer in a while. Let's find out what thus West Coast IPA is all about. Canned on 04/08/21. Pours very clear amber and doesn't keep head. The smell is interesting; fruity and slightly spicy and even something that smells like jell-o (maybe that's lychee). Grape, melon tangerine. A little bit of sugary sweetness from the malts. The taste is pretty much the same, a moderate bitterness followed by a spicy and sweet aftertaste. I'm not sold on the flavor, there is something buttery about it. It could be a product of the yeast strain. Overall, some interesting flavors if you are looking for something different.

Formal review to come. Lots of Nelson attributes out of the gate, but I think it's a bit too lean on the malt to hold onto some of the Amarillo aspects. Kinda feels like a hodgepodge casserole of hop attributes. But at least it's not another average hazy.

16oz canned 4/8 and poured into a pub nonic.

A: Absolutely crystal-clear pale straw capped with a foamy white head that fades pretty quickly. Looks like a pilsner.

S: Strong fruity & herbal hop notes with a malt sweetness and underlying pineapple, tangerine, and dankness.

T: There is a pineapple-y, piney, floral sticky-sweet dankness that can be construed as tangerine I think, and I've tasted this once before in a Revision beer that was 100% hopped with Strata. There's no Strata in this beer, so I catch myself thinking 'is that diacetyl?' as I drink this. Its not buttery per-se, but that malty, somewhat piney dank sticky-sweet characteristic is close to a turn off for me and is distracting at times.

MF: Clean, crisp, light, refreshing. Surprisingly not really bitter at all.

O: Overall this was just fine even with that distracting quality; I would call this a pretty good West Coast-style IPA, sans any aggressive hop bitterness. The clarity and hop presence and light body are all welcome.

Poured from a can - clear pale gold straw color with short white head leaving scattered lacing. Nose is mild fruit, hint of pine and sweet malt. Taste follows pretty much exactly. Finish is clean with no fuss. This one harkens back to when JW was brewing beer at KD.