India Pale Ale
Good Mood Brewery

This one pours mostly clear golden dark-ish orange, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like marijuana, orange, and a light caramelly sweetness.

This is certainly West Coast leaning – we’re not that far from the Canadian West Coast here! It’s lightly malty but nothing overwhelming, with a pleasant weedy and piney bitterness, and some juicy orange character. It feels like a grocery store IPA, and that’s not completely a death sentence in my mind.

This is light bodied, clean, crisp, and pretty drinkable.

This is probably the best of the Good Mood beers that I tried.

 

An excellent example of Classic IPA more so on the west coast side of this North American continent with strong hints of the motherland of IPA's. Delicious drank not so freakin cold like so many like their NEIPA's.

 

 

 

 

355ml can - the march of Calgarian craft brewer cans continues unabated across this fine province of ours! We'll see if that puts me in a good mood tonight.

This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with four fat fingers of puffy, somewhat rocky, and mildly fizzy off-white head, which leaves some random spattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it very lazily subsides.

It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy cereal malt, some bruised apple and juicy generic citrus mixed fruitiness, a minor damp minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some biscuity toffee squares, a hint of black pepper spice, muddled domestic citrus rind, and a now stronger leafy, herbal, and estery floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-soothing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad out of the good ol' cellar fridge. It finishes off-dry, the base malt still holding court, while the blended hoppy essences swirl about in a cute lingering denouement.

Overall - well, I shouldn't solely rely on a mere beer to change whatever mood I may have already been in today, but I have to admit it, this is a pretty good IPA, one free of any trendy haze/milkshake/turbid pretensions. Yep, we've got an old-school (for around here, anyway) West Coast version in this simply-named offering, and we are all the better for it. Yeah.