Snowcat IPA
UTOG Brewing Company

16oz can from Brewers Haven. Cloudy golden, thin foamy head, streaky lacing. Grainy aroma with some sweet fruity notes. Bready taste, malty, light citrus, lemon zest.

solid but basic ipa here, a touch sweet on the malt in the middle, but plenty hoppy and bitter to balance through the back half of it, a nice pint with their spicy chicken wing sandwich at the brewery, and a pretty well refined west coast style ipa overall, nice to see a clear one these days, but this is a long way from their best beers, not for any technical reason, just a relatively samey recipe despite the nice execution. honey colored with a short white head from the tap. aroma of toasted barley, minerals, and piney hops with a little grapefruit bitterness, seems higher alpha and maybe with a cascade or centennial hop, pretty classic, but less oily and slick and bitter when i taste it, lighter than is common, which i guess is a utah thing with the mandated lower abv, but it just doesnt grab me the way i want it to. some sweetness running through it but the fermentation is clean and tidy. some grassiness as it warms, a light brassy metal thing too, but its super subtle. overall a drinkable and flavorful brew but could use a more unique dry hopping to set it apart from the masses...

edit: leaving the scores in place, but i have to comment how bad this got after a few months, tasted it from an older keg this weekend and was really let down, i know all hoppy beer needs to be consumed fresh, but this seems weirdly deteriorated even for the style, like more than just hop fade, a zizzle to the bitterness on my tongue, a sweet heaviness to the grain, and something whack from the yeast. i am happy to have these guys selling beer in idaho now, but somebody better start policing their quality a little better, this probably should have never been served at a sampling event...