WHEN YOU SIT DOWN WITH A BEER, YOU’RE AFTER SOMETHING. Maybe it’s nuanced layers of flavor, the siren call of a favorite hop, or to test your skill identifying stone fruit tasting notes. Maybe you’re chasing the new or craving the familiar, perhaps you just want to kick back for a drink with friends—and order another of the same. At Bearded Iris, our beers meet you where you are and deliver the experience you seek, whatever it might be, because that’s what we believe makes beer worth drinking. CULTIVATE VARIETY DRIVES US AT BIBCO. (WE’RE NOT KIDDING.) With a menu that skews heavily toward IPAs, DIPAs, and pales, it can appear that we don’t, in fact, cultivate much “variety.” But here’s the thing: we’re not looking to bombard you with a checklist of styles. Instead, we know that each hop varietal and every intentionally selected ingredient contains a multitude of possibilities that can be deliberately unlocked and unleashed, then honed and hemmed in tightly, to construct a pint that’s unapologetically itself, memorably composed, and fun to drink. Every time. Regardless of style. To us, that’s the variety worth cultivating. And that’s what we bring to your table.
Can at home from Trembling Madness, 21st May 2021. Pours fairly clear. Aroma is citrus and pine, not as tropical as I imagined. Taste is mandarin and orange, candied citrus, pine, easy drinking and some bitterness in the finish. Pretty good
440ml can @ Chez Sophie Shrewsbury. Glowing orange appearance with a thinning white ring atop. Aroma has juicy orange led fruity suggestions. Taste follows suit with a smooth palate, not too much stonefruit or the like, but nicely presented and moderately sweet. Great balance.
Gooseberry, papaya, a little melon, and grapefruit zest followed by a pine-mineral bitterness and a mild, slightly astringent fade. Pretty much right in line with all the other beers in this series.
Pint can from Woodmans Appleton, 5.14.21. Hazy orange, vibrant, large foamy white head. Aroma of dank, soap water, tropical fruit, orange. Taste is orange, melon, dank, tropical fruit, that soapy thing again. Juicy, mild to moderate bitterness. A little odd, but decent.
Nice DIPA, lovely orange-tropical wave on the front end, underlined by notes of melon and peach. Finishes with a subtle sweetness, then picks up an aggressive bitter streak wavering between mineral and medicinal. Good, but doesn’t quite stick the landing.
Good, very fruity and semisweet, with a strong front full of peach, grapefruit, mandarin, and pineapple candy, backed up by herbal notes and a mineral bitterness on the finish. On the boozy side, and the dry finish never quite develops the depth you want, but still a nice pint.