Escape Plan
Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Beacon

 

 

This is a very complicated beer. Not a real IPA, rather sour. The taste is so strange that can not be calculated in numbers. I gave 4 but it can be 3 or 5. Hazy and heavy. Controversial

Canned 5/17/2018. Poured into Industrial Arts pint glass. It pours a totally opaque, turbid, golden-orange color with a half finger of creamy, milk-white head and lacing that dissipated slowly. It's the epitome of a NE IPA look. What a smell! Orange, tangerine, apricot, vanilla, wheat cracker, and subdued floral hops. The taste is apricot-forward and more tart and sour than I expected. There's a subtle creamy sweetness and a solid wheat cracker backbone. The blend of Citra and El Dorado hops is flavorful and leaves a decidedly bitter after taste. There's a peppery astringency at the finish. This ale is creamy and fairly viscous with moderate carbonation, and it drinks above its 8% ABV. You can feel it. Overall, I liked Escape Plan a lot. It's the most intense apricot flavored beer I've had.

Tall can, 5/17/18

Fully hazed/cloudy dull squash soup kinda pour, some fine ringed lacing left on the glass.

Nose is loaded with ripe apricots, melon and mango...pungent and quite delicious sniff going on here.

Full flavor DIPA, loaded with juicy goodness, more and more apricot, ripe mango, lime....simply over the top smooth and delicious....top notch collaboration....hope somebody makes more of this one...go get some

Very hazy orange-gold. Think apricot nectar + a little pineapple juice. Slight, off-white head.

Smells of tangerine, lemon, grapefruit, persimmon, and canned peaches.

Tastes of grapefruit , lime zest, bitter orange, and apricot. The latter is without the sweetness usually associated with apricots. Maybe like a not-quite-ripe apricot. (Never tasted that, but have tasted unripe peaches, so call it a semi-educated guess.) Unusual flavor, but it works. Some light lingering bitterness on the finish.

Feel is smooth, lightly oily, with some very fine carbonation-tingle on the back end.

Overall , I like it, but that unripe apricot flavor would keep it to an occasional single for me, rather than a must-have. (The $6.99/can would also tend to limit more frequent imbibing. ;) )