New England IPA
Rapscallion Brewery & Taproom

Concord Brewery "Rapscallion New England IPA"
16 fl. oz. can without production codes or freshness dating

Notes via stream of consciousness: The label notes that this is brewed with Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado hops. I love that because it gives me an idea of what it's going to be like before I buy it. These are some of my favorite hops so that's great. It's poured a very hazy deep golden body beneath an inch of creamy white foam. I'm getting orange, peach, and berries in the nose, something a little bit like Fruity Pebbles breakfast cereal. The flavor follows the aroma with a wider range but basically the same fruits except for a touch of added grapefruit, melon, and gooseberry. There's a light touch of resin/pine to it as well, and it's firmly bitter with some resin lingering in the mostly dry finish. In the mouth it's medium bodied, crisp, and then smooth with all of the extra proteins in it. It also appears to me to have a nice oat-like flavor to the sweetish malt, and I'm guessing there's some wheat in there as well. As to the remainder, I could be wrong but I think it's pale ale malt, and the reason I say that is that the malt has some character to it whereas sometimes NEIPAs can be kind of bland on the malt side relying too heavily on the hops to carry the show. With that said, this is certainly not the hoppiest NEIPA that I've tasted but it has a great balance to it, and it's quite satisfying. For me, if I could get it all of the time it would be a great go-to beer. To finish up, the head held up well and left some very good lacing throughout the entire glass. Nicely done.
Review #8,982

 

Can from tfontana, thanks for the trade.
Hazy lemon yellow with a decent sized frothy white head that slowly recedes. Orange and grapefruit with some earth and grass offset with bready caramel maltiness. Not bad.