Crew Cab
Big Truck Farm Brewery

12 oz can

pours a fairly clear yellow golden color, foamy bright white colored head. good lacing, and great head retention. Hop aroma is floral, grassy, citrus, earthy. taste is clean, just mild crackery malt flavor, medium bitter finish. medium bodied.

 

 

 

Can into pint glass. Pours a slightly hazy medium brownish-gold with a nice off-white head. Initial impression is pine, citrus, and some floral notes. Mouthfeel is clean and sharp. Finish fades to pine resin. Overall, quite refreshing and enjoyable.

 

On draught, pours a slightly hazy straw color, a decent head and nice lacing. The body and mouthfeel is nice. Flavor is tropical, citrus, pineapple with a little pine and melon.
Well hopped, with nice toasted malt notes.
It’s a good one, well done.

Yellow with a tinge of brown, slightly cloudy, big white head, rings of lace
Citrus and melon hop aroma
Lots of ripe honeydew and cantaloupe, some citrus, a bit of sweet, toasty malt
Medium bodied, appropriately carbonation
Interesting study in what terroir can bring to hops. Wouldn't figure that a Cascade hopped beer would taste like this.

Poured from a 12 oz. can. Has a golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is full of grapefruit. Taste is grapefruit, orange peels, moderate bitterness. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a pretty good beer.

 

 

Served to me almost six months old, I can discern that this would be a refreshingly classic American IPA fresh. It’s still refreshing on a sunny early spring day.

Pale gold appearance sporting a large white head that left good lacing. Big aromatic burst of citrus as soon as it hits the glass before being able to pick up a few strands of pine. Floral hops balance the strong citrus focused taste. A spicier, more herbal footprint as it finishes. Clean, nicely carbonated, medium bodied mouthfeel.

Overall, a very well made IPA from a brewery that deserves more attention.

What we have here is two twelve ounce cans with contents emptied into a clear glass liter mug. It's a stark white foamy mess. Factually, there's at least as much volume of foam as there's liquid and that's with a ginger handed pour. As with all puffy foamed poured beers, this recedes unevenly and unattractively. Avoiding the foam, the color of the brew is the standard copper-amber. There's a sharply piney hoppiness to its aroma, so maybe there's hope. Thankfully, the taste is closer to what the nose foresaw than that of the eyes. Obviously, this can't have have the extraordinary balance between malt and hops that the great IPAs do. The mouthfeel and counterbalance gives evidence that either there's something other than a reliance on barley malt in the wort, or there's not much quality to the barley. As for taste, this is OK hoppy bitter, with nothing more. As for mouthfeel, this is about adjunct lager quality, if not just a little better. It's more likeable in a time of overly starched modern American IPAs. but it's not close to being outstanding. Neither was the glass lacing, but this was already mildly disappointing.

Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass.

Lemon bright, with lots of fast rising carbonation and a big glow, and some decent clarity. Probably would have more clarity if there wasn't all this crazy carbonation. Big bleach white head, soapy retention, and a standard three finger size. Manages some decent staying power considering it's shampoo like bubbles and large suds. Quite a neat pale colored IPA.

Aroma is an interesting animal. Strong dry malts of husk and dark toast strangely. A melding good hop angle that seems to stick to basics. Pine, not much resin, slight fruit citrus but in a good simple package. Nice old school if a little dialed down.

Very fascinating palate. Lots of pithy grapefruit flavors, with a huge amount of rind and strong but tolerable astringent bitterness. Soft malt, flirts with some character of maybe some honey sweetness kicking out, but mostly sticks to letting the hops run the show. Big amounts of zest, old school hinting West coast but with a faint touch of toasty light malts.

Interesting animal here, but strangely memorable. Neat kick too. Would have again.

Poured from a 12-ounce can into a plastic cup. (Necessity is a mother, as they say.) Clear golden-amber color, with a couple of fingers of white head that left sheets of gorgeous lacing. Although sampled almost three months past the canning date, this was simply outstanding. Well balanced with a bright, citrusy, and slightly piney hop character and good bitterness to match. Finish is clean and crisp, with a lingering umami note. I'd put this up there with PseudoSue and Zombie Dust (yeah, I know they're nominally APAs :P) in terms of drinkability. Highly recommended.

 

Big Truck Farm Brewery "Crew Cab"
12 fl. oz. can, "CANNED ON 04/06/2023" and sampled on 06/22/2023
$2.79 @ Total Wine & More, Claymont, DE

Notes via stream of consciousness: The label reads "HOP IN" and I sure will. This is a standard IPA at 6.3% ABV. HaHaHa, I have to laugh as I've just noticed that my receipt reads "Big Truck Crew Caberenet"! No, it's not that kind of cab. ;) It's poured a mostly clear yellow-gold body beneath a thumb's width of white foam that's settling down and becoming more creamy. The aroma is piney, floral, and citrusy over a straightforward and grainy malt base. On to the taste, the malt is richer, fuller, and more grainy than the aroma lets on. A solid bitterness runs through it. Does it list the IBU's on the label? I don't see it but sometimes they do; it's in the 55-ish range. The hops in the flavor follow the aroma with some added woodiness and earthiness, and it finishes mainly dry with a little bit of malt fading and earthy, woody, citrusy, and piney notes lingering. In the mouth it's medium bodied on the fuller end, and gently crisp. The head didn't hold up all that well but it wasn't bad, and there's a whole lot of nice lacing left about the glass. In the end there's nothing new about this, it's just an old-school early-on West Coast IPA, but it's well done with a lot of character. It's a solid year 'round go-to IPA.
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