Heavy Machinery IPA Series: Heavy Fist
Austin Beerworks in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.91
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can shared in NYC - cheers to Dr. Sandman. Pours deep brown with a creamy, tan head. The nose has roasted pine, bread, rindy grapefruit. Medium sweet flavor with burnt toast, lots of juicy citrus fruits, lingering grapefruit, earth. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Lightly warming to finish with more toasted bread, faint cocoa, ripe citrus, some bitter toasted grass and orange rind. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can thanks to Will. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is pine, herbs, and roast. Medium mouthfeel with light bitter hop, sweet roast and light dryness. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours coffee black. Opaque. The head is tan and foamy, medium to medium-small in size. Bubbles stick around for some time. Maybe, it’s just selection bias, but I get the sense that cans do good things for a beer’s head. The aroma is fresh and bright with hops. It’s a pleasant mix of floral, spice and grass hoppiness. Sweet caramel malt in the background. Little to no aroma of darker grains. The beer has a very pleasant mix of caramel sweetness and that same bright hoppiness. There’s a little more grapefruit rind to the hop character in the taste, but there’s still plenty of grass and pepper. Again, little to no roasted malt presence - perhaps, just a touch in the finish. I would guess that Sinamar or a similar product was used in this beer, and I highly approve of that for this style (of course, I’m not a big ABA/BIPA/CDA fan). Mouthfeel is smooth with some light hop oiliness. Tasty beer. It’s not exactly blowing me away, but it’s pleasant and appealing and has little roast flavor.