Lean To
West Kill Brewing

 

 

 

Tarnished brass with leggy white froth; grilled pineapple, tangelo, cantaloupe, grapefruit peel + lemon balm on the nose; tangerine, mango, lemon sorbet, evergreen needles, white grape, orange hard candy, slight dank; bitter, clean, dry.

4 4.25 4 4 4

16 days in the can.
Worth noting that this beer is ready now - no hop burn or heat.
And it’s a focused, bright hit of fruit hops with some piney base notes, something like Azacca, Mosaic and El Dorado if I were to guess, very much in the mid-Western “modern IPA” mold.
But… that’s kinda it. No better or worse than a bunch of other beers. And it’s fresh, so this is what it is.
It’s subtle - some clean green notes like lychee start to come out if you spend time with it - but there’s a lot more competition when it comes to DIPAs vs some of West Kill’s other styles. And West Coast IBUs are distracting from WK’s signature pillowy body.
Nice, but nothing I haven’t seen before.

The rare average West Kill beer.