Ryogoku IPA
Ryogoku Lab & Brewery

Pulling the world together with hops, the brewers at Ryougoku get to work to create an American-styled IPA, classic, basic and pure in its recipe formulation and brewing technique.

Simply named Ryougoku American IPA, the beer pours moderately cloudy and with an amber-chrome tint. As a creamy froth skirts from rim to rim, a balanced scent of toasted bread, nuttiness, citrus and spruce decorate the nose. Sweetness strikes first in the form of toasted caramel with a hint of honey, drying quickly to a steely sweetness in anticipation of hops. Pink grapefruit, orange peel and pine all sing a classic hop note that extends into a grassy, peppery and spurcy hop bite to command a bitter balance.

Medium bodied and trending dry, the IPA finishes decidedly bitter to appease true hop heads, but also shows a moderate hop-derived astringency that plagues the finish and aftertaste.

Enjoyed on draft at Popeyes. It’s like then white-head that leaves nice placing. Those is slightly piney. Taste is slightly citrus and slightly pine and slightly malty. Very evenly balanced IPA.