Sticky Hands - Hop Experience
Block 15 Brewing - Southtown Tap Room

Rated 11-17-2019. Don't really remember too much about this beer, but from my rating it must have been really good. It had a great hop taste without much bite and that's one of the things I look for in an IPA/IIPA.

An aggressive pour reveals a beer that has that golden, unfiltered look I so treasure in WCDIPA’s, with a fluffy white head that coats the glass.

There’s a surprising amount of dank citrus on the nose and taste, but the clincher is the nice bit of resiny pine at the back of the palate that provides the requisite bitterness and glides into the crushingly dry mouthfeel that activates the “chug” portion of my beer nerd brain.

 

 

 

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium golden amber with a fine one finger white head with great retention and lots of lacing. Aroma of mild caramel malt, citrus and piney hops; dank. Tropical and orange citrus fruit, mild apricot, nice. Flavor is neutral malt with hints of caramel, resinous piney, dank and citrus hops, mixed citrus rind and light, ripe tropical fruit. Finishes with long, lingering resinous hop bitterness with residual pine and dankness. Medium bodied with light creaminess and good carbonation. A very flavorful hop profile, resembling fresh hopping. Nice flavor profile and good herbal flavors to support the forward hop bitterness. Well balanced; although the malt is in the background, it supports the flavors well. Has the nice characteristic that some of the best hop flavors surface long after the taste; very sustained flavor. Nicely done and I hope to see more from this brewery in the future. I think this is the same IPA as plain "Sticky Hands", but my bottle ABV matches this entry and the bottle does say "Hop Experience" although I think that's just a suffix for Sticky Hands.

 

 

bottle showed up in the mail today...SUPER FRESH, bottled 7/31. enjoyed from a block 15 snifter. classic ipa look...smell and taste is rich and lush hop. dripping resinous hop on the sweeter end of the spectrum. super tasty, like suckin on a hop cone.