My Name Is Humpty
Vice Beer

Poured from 16oz can into my 8th Wonder chalice. The month is hard to read, but I think the canning date was 6/23/25. This can calls itself just "American IPA" and clocks in at 6.7%.

Appearance: medium golden hue with a light haze and a finger of frothy ivory foam.

Smell: moderately sweet with some tropical notes of passionfruit and pineapple. It's decent, but there's a bit of a ... cloying-ness to the fruit aromas.

Taste: rather sweet with an earthier hop flavor than the aroma. Still got some of that passionfruit, but here there's also more of a bitter quality to balance some of that sweetness. A little like an old-school DIPA in character, if not quite as strong. Not at all bad.

Mouthfeel: medium-rich body with a good level of carbonation and actually a really satisfying creaminess.

Overall: a decent American IPA, and one with a definite retro kinda vibe. Plus ... that label ... A+ work, really.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium golden amber with a one finger white head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, citrus and dank hops, lemon, grapefruit and some herbal dankness. Flavor is pale malt, citrus, piney and dank hops, grapefruit, lemon, pine, fleeting fruit esters and some catty dankness. Solid citrus rind, pine and dank hop finish with solid, forward bitterness. Medium bodied with light creaminess. This brewery seems to have hit the ground running with quite a few styles available. This is labelled as a West Coast IPA and although a bit more dank than most of that style, has a solid hop bill with citrus rind and pine that fits the style. Although that and the dankness are dominant, there are faint stone fruit esters in the taste that add some interest. Great hoppy, bitter finish. Great intro to this new brewery. Nicely done and worthy even among the flood of fresh hops coming now.