Cali Connection
The Beer Research Institute in Mesa, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Ironfire Brewing CompanyIPA - Triple Regular
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Score
7.19
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mcberko (47456) reviewed Cali Connection from The Beer Research Institute 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at The Beer Research Institute, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of piney hops, some herbal notes and biscuity malt. Flavour is robust, with loads of resinous hops, lots of hop oils and some sticky sweetness as residual. A little boozy but still lovely as a slow sipper. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours with a clear deep gold body that has copper hues and supports a thin white head of foam. The aroma offers up Clementine, cantaloupe and pineapple fruity hoppiness with a light spicy Belgian sensation in the background. The taste begins smooth and softness on the palate slowly unleashing citrus hop bitterness and juiciness. I get Clementine, tangelo and pineapple hoppiness. To midway it picks up a modest degree of spicy Belgian yeasty notes as the hop bitterness grows to a moderate level and folds into a honey note. This is my kind of Belgian ipa where the ipa is far forward of the Belgian character.