21st Amendment Brew Free or Die IPA

21st Amendment Brewery
Brewed at Cold Spring Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
San Francisco, California USA

Oneof the Best IPA’s in the Bay Area.

I just had this beere (and all there others) two weeks ago and still remember how astonshied I was that it was GOOD. Unfortunately, I heard some bad reviews of the beers but I can gaurantee you they were NOT accurate. This is a fun place with great beers (most) and food. My favorite was there Red (a red version of the IPA?) but the Ipa was excellent and of course the hoppiness was most appreciated! Worth the visit.

Can at Post Zythos Struise Tasting 08. Thanks to Steve from 21st A for this one. The best beer I have ever had in a can. After a tasting of impy stouts, this was like heaven. Fresh hop aroma. Gold colour. Beautiful IPA, fresh hop all over it. Nice grapefruit. One of my favourite beers of the entire weekend.

A Mes rate: Can at the Struise Farm during Urbain’s Post Zythos Struise Tasting.
Two things:
1. This is possibly the best IPA I have ever tasted.
2. This is certainly the best canned goods I have experienced.
:)
What a dumbo I am, I just went to the trouble of emailing the brewer to ask who it was who brought this to the farm so I could say thanks. Then I come here to put the rate in and Ian has already made a note of it being Steve. So erm.. yeah, HUGE thanks to Steve! Thick dark golden colour with a slim but good white head, A very good looking beer. Amazing hoppage. Piney spruce, awesome grassy notes, citric bitterness and underpinned by some glorious caramel malt. The dry hoping is clear and works incredibly well. It zips up the nostrils from the very start and lingers beautifullly for the finish. No surprises here just everything done to perfection. Balance and finesse is not something I get very often from American beers in all honesty. This has both and is bloody excellent.

Got this off the Growler Bar at Stony Brook Beverage! Like the name, but Love the beer! The aroma is big bold hops of pine and grapefruit juice, sweet tangelo backed up by a malty sweetness. The taste is semi sweet tangelo, orange peel and malt sweetness. Near midway the sweet malts elbow into the flavor but eventually succumb to increasing pine and grapefruit hop bitterness.Very tasty brew.

On cask. This beer was the regular 21 A IPA dry-hopped in the cask and served by gravity. The bartender did not know what hops where in the cask. Pours a murky, electric shade of copper with a dirty white head. HUGE hop aromas; mostly orange notes but also some grapefruit, flowers and maybe a little grass. Perfect balance of malt and tons of hops.

Great IPA! This beer has wonderful fruity esthers with a beautiful dark copper body. Great finish on the palate that leaves you wanting MORE! Definitely one of my favorite IPA’s ever. Cheers to Shawn O’Sullivan the brew master at 21-A for keeping me happy!

Can courtesy of Naven. Popped the top and WOW!- this is one of the best hop aromas I have ever sniffed. Beautiful pour w/ great lacing. This beer tastes like a Dbl IPA but drinks like an IPA. Excellent, truly excellent. My new favorite IPA.