Offshoot Beer Co. Tropical Escape – American IPA at 7.1% ABV (C$6.65 at Collective, 473 ml, packaged on 23-May-2024, acquired 10-Jul-2024, reviewed 16-Jul-2024)
Appearance: clear pale gold with two fat fingers of fluffy pale ivory head, good retention and moderate soapy lacing. (4/5) Aroma: mild, tropical fruit, grass, pale malt, citrus. (6/10) Taste: moderate sweet, moderate-high bitter. (7/10) Palate: medium body, moderate carbonation, off-dry medium duration bitter finish. (4/5)
“Simcoe, Mosaic, Cryo Pop, El Dorado, and Citra hops”. And as far as I can tell, just about everything on the label is wrong: I get very little of the dank piney notes that I associate with WCIPAs, and any coconut and pineapple adjunct was added with a very miserly hand. I’d go so far as to say that it’s actually less tropical (and for that matter less west coast-ish) than the base Escape, based on my notes from a few years ago. I don’t see age being the issue here, since it’s not even two months in the can, so I’m just gonna go with The Bruery disappointing me yet again. (Yes, they’ve done some awesome beers. They’ve also done some awesomely bad ones. They might actually have the largest standard deviation across the entirety of my records.) (14/20)
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