Big Meadows IPA
Basic City Beer Company in Waynesboro, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.75
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can from an SNP shop. Slightly hazy copper with an off white head. Nose is orange peel, orange oil, light florals. Flavor is orange peel, tangy green leaf, malt, light floral.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Big Meadows IPA from Basic City Beer Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Mostly clear golden coloured body with a very large, four to five centimetre tall, off-white head that's quite soapy and leaving a funky lace on the sides and on top. Aroma of grass, hay, some flowers and a slight scent of the sugars and some rustic, biscuity earthy malts, especially at the end. Light-bodied; Relatively dry and grassy notes show at first with a soft but noticeable hop bitterness and some supportive malt notes and a light sweetness that seems to come from stone fruits of apricots with a nice balance throughout. Aftertaste shows a nice level of hop bitterness from the alpha acids here, some soft sugars that are enjoyable and relatively complex and a good malt backbone makes this quite robust and flavourful, especially for the low ABV. Overall, a nice IPA, near 'Light' status that has some good flavours, a light bitterness and some smooth sugars, but the balance is struck nicely here. Great to try just three days before heading BACK to Big Meadows - this time camping with my wife and three kids. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from The Big Meadows Wayside (of course!) on 19-June-2022 at Shenandoah National Park in 'Luray', Virginia for US$1,69, canned on 23-May-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 06-July-2022.