Gridlock IPA

Poured up on tap at the 2015 edition of the AZ Strong Beer Festival where it exhibits a clear copper body the supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a little bit of caramel to go along with sort of malt sweetened citrus hops as well as some floral and resiny bitter smelling grassy hoppiness. The taste starts smooth and sweet with a dash of off putting caramel like sweetness. It then gets into pleasing degrees of pine and citrus and spicy onion hops leading into a light degree of floral hops. This seems like a hodge podge of tasty hoppy notes that try hard to overcome the shortcomings of the sweet sort of caramel thing that’s going on here. So all-in-all still a tasty IPA.