Last Chance IPA

Bottle pours light Amber with a thin white head. Aroma is dank resinous pine. Flavor is dry pine hops and toast with nutty notes in the finish. Very balanced.

12 ounce bottle from State Line. Pours a clear amber color with a thin foamy white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of big sticky resin hops, herbal notes, candied citrus. The taste is very catty, herbal and a faint bit of resin. Medium bodied. Decent.

Cat urine backed up by pineapple on the nose. Clear amber, medium head. Grassy, decent biterness. Well made, tasty IPA.

New Beer Distributors, NY 12oz ($2.25): Pours a light orange with a white head. Aroma is mostly simple citrus, with some pine and malt. Taste is pretty standard IPA. Very sessionable and drinkable, but this ain’t nothing to write home about.

Crisp, slightly hazy golden coloured body with a very thin white head. Aroma of fresh grapefruity hops, a bit of malt and a definite and pungent sweaty gym sock scent that really dominates once you think of it. Light to Medium-bodied; Grassy and very herbal flavoured hops up front that are dominated by a bunch of the dry hopping characteristics with a mild and perhaps under dominating malt backbone with a little of the earthiness on the palate, but the floral and perfumey hops dominate. Aftertaste shos a pleasant hop bitterness with a minor malt note, some refreshing herbal characteristics and not much of a complexity - but that’s okay with the good, yet light, hops. Overall, a decent IPA - not great, but a nice beer to sample with a good cause, makes a beer worth searching for if you like the style. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle from a six pack, purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 22-July-2012 for US$9.25/6pack sampled at home in Washington on 10-September-2012.

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 6/12/2012. Pours lightly hazy golden orange color with a 1 finger fairly dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Good amount of spotty lacing clings to the glass. Aromas of orange, mango, grapefruit, wet grass, hay, herbal, floral, pine, dankness, and light caramel. Ok aromas, but they seem really odd to me; something’s off, and wet grass is all I have to describe it. Taste of pine, grapefruit, herbal, floral, wet grass, hay, caramel, orange zest, earth, and herbal spiciness. Good amount of piney bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of citrus, pine, grass, floral, caramel, and herbal spiciness on the finish for a good bit. Some good hop flavor balance; with prominent and crisp bitterness. Slightly weird flavors like the aromas. Light amounts of cloying bitterness and hop flavors. Medium carbonation and body; with a crisp and sticky mouthfeel that is good. Overall this is an ok IPA. I don’t know how they hopped this, but there are some odd notes in the flavors and aromas. I certainly had no real issue finishing the glass though.

Sampled on draft at 3R6P this beer poured a dark amber-caramel color with a medium sized foamy orange-white head that lingered and left great lacing. The aroma was semi-sweet and tangy pine, grapefruit and orange. The flavor was dry and quite bitter with notes of sour caramel, pine, grapefruit, Windex, perfume and herbs. Long mixed hoppy finish with lingering dry bitterness. Medium body. Ok.

on tap-pours gold with a tight offwhite head. Aroma is soft floral. Taste is floral hop bite, 2nd light malt.

Bottle. Pours golden amber with off white head. Nose/taste of caramel malt, dry pine needle, toasted grain and grapefruit. Finishes dry and bitter. Body on the thinner side of medium.