Pocket Wrench
Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Beacon

 

Aroma and taste are similar, both are heavy on citrus fruit and peel.

6 oz draft pour at Lures Bar & Grille. Pretty good for a pale ale and has some nice citrus flavor, but has some weird metallic/minty/astringent flavors going on in the background - just enough to be distracting.

07/25/25 can @ Hocking Hills Dunlap Hollow

 

Copenhagen 18/1 2021. 47,3 cl can from Mikkeller web-shop. Silver can with some sketchy drawings of machines and tools to underline that this is indeed an industrial arts brew. Turquoise writing.

Pours opaque, murky, slightly dirty, pale yellow with a mid-sized white head. A bit bubbly. Settles as thin but consistent layer of foam covering the surface of the beer. Clinging to there sides of the glass. Moderate lacing.

Aroma is medium intense with a sweet, exotic fruitiness mingling with citric notes. Sweet peach and honey melon. White sugar. Citrus and lime.

Medium strong carbonation. Slightly thick, soft, smooth yet lively and tingling texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a slightly stronger citric bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter with a sour streak. Lingers shortly. Finish is dry.

Fine, elegant and fairly intense APA from the sour part of town.

 

 

Can purchased and drank at Fattey Beer Company in Rochester, NY.

This one pours a very hazy golden yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like orange, clementine, tangerine – you get the idea, it’s citrusy, with a bit of floral and piney bitterness.

This is a nice condensing and boxing in of the Wrench name. There’s a ton of hop character in a smaller package. There’s a soft bitterness here, with a very orange-y and slightly floral hop character.

This isn’t quite as thin as some session IPAs here, as there’s a nice softness and almost mineral-like bitter finish.

The Wrench series is always worth a look here.

 

Poured from a 16oz. can into a shaker pint. Color was a hazy, straw coloring with a thin, white head (could have been my pour, though). Aroma was mild tropical fruit with some grain. Taste followed the aroma, with a light sweetness and little to no carbonation. Overall, a very easy drinking pale ale . . .

Poured into a wide mouth grip shaped goblet: color i light straw but opaque, 1/4 inch off white head on initial pour, then dissipates quickly, no lacing

Smell is pithy citrus and mixed tropicals and light oat/wheat grain.

Taste is similar - pithy citrus and tropicals and light malt and biscuit notes.

Mouthfeel is moderate carbonation, light sweetness, light bitterness.

Overall light flavor and aroma, more pithy and oat/wheat than some at this strength.

 

1/2 of a 16 oz can with a 6-8-23 canning date stamped on the bottom edge.

Appearance. Pale straw colored, hazy body with a decent white head.

Soft carbonation in a medium body.
Moderate strength and bitterness for the style.

 

 

A hazy, straw-colored pour, with a substantial frothy white head. Has the look of a wheat or oat-based brew, but didn't find that detail in the notes. Flavors are pretty sharp--lemon, some rind bitterness, a touch of pepper. Nice dry bitter finish. Full-flavored for a sessionable 4.5% ABV. Great pre-dinner starter or a beer you can crush all night long.

Canned on 12/19/2022 sampled both straight from the can and poured into a goblet. I prefer it straight from the can as it retains its effervescence better. The sharp bubbles work really well with the very fresh and zesty hops. At 4.5% it's dangerously crushable. One of the best lower ABV beers I've had in some time.