Leigh Street DIPA

Canned. Slightly cloudy gold pour. Tropical fruits mostly. You know where this is headed. Good enough.

Taster at Ardent. Almost clear golden pour, thin skin of head. Aroma is sweet, grainy, light fruity notes. Taste is creamy, smooth, mildly sweet, traces of bitterness. Textures are lovely. Best of the flight.

Can, shared by Max. Pours clear gold. Light cracker, pine, grapefruit, orange zest, light bitterness. Medium body. Good.

Ever so slightly hazy pure golden yellow and very slightly tinted with copper and a very thin, single centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of resin, funky, grass, flowers, hay, biscuity malt and a dash of sugars. Medium-bodied; Very crisp grassy and floral flavours dominate at first with some moderate bitterness from hops, but also a dry and slightly malty finish with a dose of yeast, bread and a tiny bit of grapefruit and orange citrus notes at the end. Aftertaste is very crisp and clean with some cleanser, grass and floral notes coming out stronger towards the end, with a light bitterness, but relatively straight forward. Overall, a fairly nice beer that shows a very dry, grassy and floral IPA that doesn't show any of the Imperial status at all, but does have a good dry profile, almost on the 'brut' side of things. Nice to try, but not great, nor worth going out to try and find - even locally! I sampled this sixteen ounce can, purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Clarendon), Virginia on 06-May-2020 for US$4,49 sampled at home just five days later at my house here in Washington on 11-May-2020.

Pounder: Lilly and scallion nose. Shimmering amber, medium head. Very floral lilly and lemongrass. Medium body, easy carbonation. Intense.

$4.00 pint can, WW. Lightly hazy gold with a white head. Tropical fruit juice, citrus peel, floral hops, pine nose. Flavor is green hops, citrus peel, dandelion, hose.