State Of The Art 85
Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Beacon

 

On tap at Tap and Mallet in Rochester, NY.

This one pours a lightly hazy dark orange, with a small head, and just a bit of lacing.

This smells like passionfruit, guava, and mango, with sweet malt in the background.

As described, there's only just a faint wisp of bitterness here, as it's all exotic fruit- I get possible guava and passionfruit, some white melon and white grape, and ruby red grapefruit. There's malt on the nose, but not really in the taste.

This is light bodied, fairly crisp, with a good level of carbonation.

This isn't the best in this series- as the lack of bitterness keeps it slightly unbalanced. Nonetheless, it's still very tasty.

 

Pours a clear, vibrant gold in color with a half finger of short lived white head. Aroma is resiny pine, a bit of sweetness, and some lime. Taste is pine, citrus, and some fruitiness with a sweet undertone but a light-moderate bitterness and resin in the finish. Medium-light body and moderate carbonation. Overall a tasty beer but is a bit sweeter than I'd like.

Poured from 16 oz. can into Industrial Arts pint glass. It pours a hazy golden straw color with one finger of bright white head and beautiful lacing. The aroma is really appealing: mostly hoppy with some mild lemon peel, grapefruit, and pine needles. It smells really fresh. The taste is decidedly hop forward but there is a subtle and really delightful peach taste. As the glass warms, I also noticed more malt. It finishes crisp, clean, and bitter. Really tasty! It's pleasantly carbonated and with a moderate ABV of 6.5% you can drink several without a problem. This is just a great American IPA! All of the State of the Art variants are very good but this is outstanding.

 

 

Tall can...no dating info that I can see...but this hit the stores just this week...I like the revolving concept, only wish they would give the end user more info about what kinda hops are being used in each particular version..

The pour this time is lighter amber, near clear, fine and frothy cap, leaves low sheeting, plus bits and small bars of lacing.

Resiny hop nose with lime and pepper coming to mind.

Dry, resiny and citric brew, with more limes, more pepper and more citric hop notes...tasty and enjoyable...more fine product from IABC

 

Another outstanding IPA from Industrial Arts! Hoppy, little to no bitterness, and very drinkable, which seems to be IA's mantra. Nelson hopped if I'm not mistaken.