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Tannery Run Brew Works

Another too frequent sorry sight to see. Despite a careful pour from a pint can, this produces way too much foam for a clear glass Imperial pint mug to accommodate all. It's been seen before, that foamy mess that recedes unevenly. There's likely a shortage of barley malt in the wort. The beer is a murky dark orange-amber, almost like dull copper. The condensed foam gives a hint of that color. The aroma is starchy, cereal starchy, with a light hoppy note that's earthy. The body is way too light to go unnoticed. The taste is far more bitter than forecasted by the nose. Even those that like their beer as hoppy as possible will likely be disappointed with the lack of any balance here. IPAs don't need to bring a malty sweetness along for them to be good. But they do need some sort of body to carry the hops. This has the body of watered down tea and it spoils everything else. Not that there's much more there. Typically, the foamy head recedes leaving almost no glass lacing. The bitter hops are only that, there's no depth nor layering. None of that transitioning taste experience here, just one bitter note. That's not a bad thing, just not enough to salvage this one. It's not a particularly sharp bitterness, like pine or citrus, it's more like the nose discovered, earthy, but not dank. It's sad when the only good thing that can be said about an AIPA is that it's bitter.