Apiary
West Kill Brewing
- From:
- West Kill Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 0.74%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 24, 2025
- Added:
- Jul 01, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Honey IPA
First brewed this beer way back in 2018 and very happy to have it back in rotation. A traditional west coast style IPA brewed with honey from Damn Good Honey Farm and hopped with Centennial, Idaho 7, Huell Melon, & Simcoe offering up honey flavor without the sweetness up front and finishing with delightfully floral and earthy hop character.
First brewed this beer way back in 2018 and very happy to have it back in rotation. A traditional west coast style IPA brewed with honey from Damn Good Honey Farm and hopped with Centennial, Idaho 7, Huell Melon, & Simcoe offering up honey flavor without the sweetness up front and finishing with delightfully floral and earthy hop character.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.05/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.05/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Tarnished brass with loose white trailers; set honey, flowers and orange zest on the nose; slight crystal toffee, Luden’s honey, rosemary, geraniums, pine resin, orange zest ; strongly bitter, medium, round, soft.
4 4 4 4 4.25
Centennial, Idaho 7, Huell Melon, Simcoe
made with DamnGood Honey Farm honey
19 days in the can!.
Another IPA of theirs that opens with a round of aggressive bitterness only to settle into something more interesting.
The complexity of Kaaterskill isn’t here: there’s a blast of honey, which isn’t easy to get into the flavour (though it lands like oxidation on some sips.) Then there’s a round of botanicals and surprisingly spritzy citrus hit. What’s intriguing is that some of those notes are, I believe, coming through the wildflower honey.
Lingering bitterness verging on astringency telegraphs this as a West Coast (which it is, according to their blurb.) Sadly, it also cuts across their usually pillowy mouthfeel.
Manages to work as either a honey beer or an IPA, which is no easy trick. And still on brand for being both interesting + drinkable.
WK on an average day is still better than most.
Jul 01, 20224 4 4 4 4.25
Centennial, Idaho 7, Huell Melon, Simcoe
made with DamnGood Honey Farm honey
19 days in the can!.
Another IPA of theirs that opens with a round of aggressive bitterness only to settle into something more interesting.
The complexity of Kaaterskill isn’t here: there’s a blast of honey, which isn’t easy to get into the flavour (though it lands like oxidation on some sips.) Then there’s a round of botanicals and surprisingly spritzy citrus hit. What’s intriguing is that some of those notes are, I believe, coming through the wildflower honey.
Lingering bitterness verging on astringency telegraphs this as a West Coast (which it is, according to their blurb.) Sadly, it also cuts across their usually pillowy mouthfeel.
Manages to work as either a honey beer or an IPA, which is no easy trick. And still on brand for being both interesting + drinkable.
WK on an average day is still better than most.
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