Noon Is Good Breakfast IPA
Great Lakes Brewery

 

Pours slightly hazy gold with a large fluffy head. Hops and orange on the smell. Citrus is No.1 on the taste followed by hops. Crispy mouthfeel
Feb 4 2023

473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Sep 8 2022 and served slightly chilled.

Pours a hazy amber-gold hue, supporting just over a finger of smooth, creamy white head that dissipates within six or seven minutes. A tight, frothy collar is left surrounding a filmy cap, with a beautiful coat of messy, delicate lace applied to the glass. I'm getting mostly citrus on the nose, including orange zest, orange juice and grapefruit, with hints of lemon and orange blossom.

It tastes along the same lines: citrus forward, but with bits and bobs of other stuff going on. There is a hint of oatmeal sweetness underneath, but my taste buds are more drawn to the mandarin orange, red grapefruit and orange zest flavours that dominate the sip. Finishes sweet and juicy, like a fruit cup crossed with lemon drop hard candy, fading into the aftertaste. Medium in body, with soft carbonation that weakly agitates the surface of the tongue, resulting in a very smooth, rather creamy mouthfeel. Super easy to drink - I could plow through a few of these before noon, if only I were up that early on my days off.

Final Grade: 4.05, an A-. As with literally all of the GLB Tank Ten IPAs, I must highly recommend Noon Is Good to all hopheads - but orange lovers in particular will definitely want to seek this breakfast IPA out for themselves. This brew is more about the citrus zest than anything else, though the hops they've chosen are so exquisitely complementary to the orange and tangelo that it's just a seamlessly smooth pale ale to experience. Hope to see this one back next year.

 

Pours cloudy peach with a patchy, sticky head. The aroma is of lemon, grapefruit, apricot, mango and mint hop notes with a light, clean malt accompaniment. The taste is of juicy, sweet tropical fruit - mango, papaya, pineapple - along with citrusy hop bursts. Bready malts in the back, diminutively. The mouthfeel is full bodied with creamy carbonation and mouthcoating hop bitterness. High bitterness and plenty of hop aroma in the everlasting finish.

Another classic fruit salad IPA from this fantastic brewer. Worth a try if you like them tropical and juicy.

Look: Pours a hazy golden orange colour, with 1 1/2 fingers of tightly bubbled white head. The head pulls back to a 1/4 finger with good lacing after 5 minutes.

Smell: Dominant tangelo or tangerine smell. Hints of candied sugar.

Taste: Sweet tangelo or tangerines on the front end. A grainy chalkiness' is noticable from mid sip onwards. There is a sweet sugary aftertaste.

Feel: Medium bodied with a gentle carbonation. Plays high on the palate and at the sides of the tongue. Biggest knock is the chalky sweetness that coats your mouth at the end of a sip.

Greatlakes can always be counted on to make a fine beer. If you're looking for a sweet orange/tangelo forward juice bomb this is well worth trying. The biggest knock against it would be the sugary juicy aftertaste is quite pronounced and leaves your mouth a little sticky. I give it a solid B+

473ml can served cold into a pint glass. LCBO purchase for around $3.40 CDN. Canned September 8, 2022.

Appearance - Hazy, orange tinged beer with two fingers of fluffy off-white head and great staying power. Somewhat juice like in appearance.

Smell - Oranges and nothing but oranges. Fairly big aromatics notes that smell fresh and inviting.

Taste - Oranges again, some sweetness, hints of bitterness in the aftertaste and nice wheat forward malt backbone.

Mouthfeel - Smooth, medium bodied, with just enough carbonation. Pretty crushable and does pair particularly nicely with breakfast foods as an orange / juice substitute.

Overall - Another good from GLB, simple and straightforward but the orange notes here are pretty great. Well worth a try.
*Update June 12, 2023.* - Revisited this - not sure why I had it where it was, bumped up a quarter point on taste and feel. Very good orange focused IPA.