Draught, taster. @Crooked Run Fermentation, Washington DC (DC). 04/09/2024 [#7.768 Global - #1.619 United States of America - #2 Crooked Run Brewing] Pours golden with a small white head. Aroma: marmalade, orange zest and candied malts. Taste: candied malts and orange marmalade. Bitter palate. Next one, please!

Ever so slightly hazy golden and light copper coloured body with a large, four to five centimetre tall just off-white head that stays afloat for a long time. Aroma of grass, hay, some citrusey notes from the hops, but also some bitterness and grainy notes from malts. Light-bodied; Very funky, astringent and aspartamey flavours show at first with a light bitterness from the hops, but also a dry grainy and biscuity quality of the malt with some metal and more pungent finish that doesn't really seem like an IPA at all, but rather a dry lager. Aftertaste is crisp and showing much more of the yeastie, bready qualities than any hop bitterness or notes from the hops here - this doesn't really show anything of quality, period. Overall, not such a good beer throughout and definitely not for the style. I'll rethink buying others from this brewery at all, since the two I had were very SUB par. Sad to see this local, but it's okay to have a bad brewery - just avoid them if you are in the know. I sampled this sixteen ounce can, purchased from The Beer Cave @ Bob's Sunoco in Callaway, Maryland on 10-May-2022 for US$3,63 sampled at my house here in Washington on 23-June-2022.

6-19-23 Crooked Run

Hazy yellow, very little head. Nose is OK, citrus and flowers and some perfume. Flavor has malt and honey and flowers and soap. Finishes off dry, slick.

16oz can from Castle Liquors. Golden pour, orange hues, creamy, silky head. Aroma is musty, malty, caramel , hoppy notes on top

Can from the brewery Aroma: citrus, tropical fruit Appearance: clear golden with a white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness Mouthfeel: average carbonation, medium body, sticky feel, long finish Decent

Claims West Coast IPA. Is NEIPA with no character. No backbone like slugs, no bitterness. Light unripe orange citrus. Pours golden with ok head. Empty finish with some hop tang. If this is what they are billing as a West Coast IPA, it makes me question a lot of things. Overpriced tall can.

Pint can, WW. Slightly hazy gold with lots of carbonation and a soft off-white head. Pine, citrus, slight rot, melony nose. Flavor is malty citrus, melon, grasses. This doesn't work, IMO.

Draft at Crooked Run. Clear yellow with off-white head. Aromas of floral notes, citrus. Tastes of floral notes, citrus, light toast. Medium body with a dry finish.