(Seawolf) Special Hops IPA
Armed Forces Brewing Company in Norfolk, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.25
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
$2.51 can, TWSP. Slightly hazy gold with a tiny white head. Nose is orange and grapefruit, canned pineapple. Flavor is odd...grapefruit, canned pineapple (but not sweet), resin, green leaf. Drinkable, but I'd never seek this out.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Ever so slightly hazy golden and peach coloured body with a small, very thin, pure white head, only a centimetre tall. Aroma of citrus, light grass, hay and honey with very little else aside from some mild malts. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong grassy and citrus flavours at first with very little else aside from some mild biscuity malts and a dose of yeast along with some caster sugar and a touch of honey as well adding to the sweetness and pungency of this one, but definitely not in terms of hops, bitterness or real complexities. Aftertaste shows some grain and a touch of malt with no real hop flavours at all showing through - there is some sweetness, there is a touch of citrus, but no traditional hop bitterness or anything of the sort. Overall, a decent beer, but pretty poor in terms of the style and the complexity that you'd expect from even a sub-par IPA - this was lower than that. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Total Wine in Newport News, Virginia on 17-November-2019 for US$2,51 sampled in my hotel room here in Columbia, Maryland on 03-December-2019.