Can I Put the Hops In?
Bradley Brew Project

 

On tap at the brewery. Pours deep golden with white head. Body is medium and slightly crisp. Herbal hops dominate the pallet with bready malt and tropical fruit in the background. Long bitter finish. Nice brew.

 

Picked this up last week at the Bottle King in Livingston, as I never had anything from the Bradley Brew Project before. It's nice to see another brewery here in the Garden State but this wasn't much of anything aside from a typical brew. It looks like this was released in September, as there wasn't anything written on the bottom of the can as I had to look that up on their Instagram page.

The pour to this was golden, with some fine, dark sediment floating in it and a full, fluffy head topping it off as that quickly settled down. Aside from a thick ring near the top of my pint glass, there wasn't much of any lacing left aside from some soapy splotches near the back. Some earthy hops , floral notes, and tropical bitterness in the muted nose as the taste wasn't that much more lively. Plenty of body here as this had a doughy malt to it and lively carbonation that kept this as light as possible. Some kumquat, exotic fruit, grass, and earthy hop bitterness emerged as this warmed up, even though I never fully warmed up to this beer.

Not a lot of booze here and thankfully, I never tasted it and only felt a bit of warming as I worked my way through this. This was nowhere near as good as what I could get my hands on from the left coast and only worth a go once to add the label to my collection and check off another brewery. More flavor and hop oils would have made this stand out but as it was, this was just worthy of being a nightcap and not much more.