IPA Sorachi Ace

Tap at JBC. Sorachi weirdness. I like it. Creamy, plastic, cheese and chive. Exactly what you would expect. Drunken rating.

6% 10oz glass on tap at Bungalow. Nice deep copper pour with an off-white head. Floral hop bouquet with citrus notes over a malty base. Smooth creamy mouthfeel on a med-light body. The taste is really unique, pineapple, coconut like a piña colada! Totally unexpected! Almost cocktail like, interesting as all hell. A bit of piney bitterness in the somewhat dry finish. The bitterness appears to be cumative with that ascerbic finish slowly growing over the course of the beer. As it warms up more citrus, dandelion notes come up but that pineapple/coconut remains in the wings. Pretty unique, definitely worth a try.

Tap at Molto. Deep amber-orange with a low head. Lemony nose, grassy and original though not clearly what I usually get with Sorachi Ace. The flavor is, though. Lemon, wood, vanilla. Not overdone, though, which is easy to do with this hop. Pretty good use of it. The server said the nose was much more powerful when they tapped it a few days earlier. That might be why other raters so far have been much more impressed with this than I have. Good, though.

very heady, a moderately aggressively hopped. Nice back bone but a bit light body for the style, would work better at 7%. Tastes like you are sucking on weed.