Blue Point Hoptical Illusion

Brewed by Blue Point Brewing
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Patchogue, New York USA

FCBF 09. I really liked this IPA. Nice mouthfeel and texture. It struck a nice malty / hoppy balance, a bit more like an American Pale. Good stuff.

Draft, flour city brewers fest: clear piss yella...thin whiteboy suds hovering. Stale, lemony hop nose with a bit of wrongness floating around...not infection per se, just like something that shouldn’t be there...on an intellectual level. Wet mouthfeel, hoppy flavors bring out flavors of a hop or hop combo that simple does not seem to agree with me...just tastes a bit like lemony piss.

Pours golden-amber into the glass, with a tiny retentive bubbly cap that leaves mild lace. A grapefruit nose ensues, with hints at pine needles. The flavors are bit thin upfront, with grapefruit and rind/zest notes, but not a lot of malt substance to back up the citrus aspect. Thus, the body lacks some substance and feels a bit hollow. The finish is decently bitter, with some biscuit flour and pine notes; however, with a mouthfeel devoid of substance in the backbone, alongside albeit "overtly zesty" carbonation levels, this brew just feels like it has all the right intentions, but doesn’t impress on the delivery.

Bottle. Poured pale translucent amber with a respectable white head that thinned fast. Aroma was pleasantly sweet grapefruit with a hint of resin, not really piney though, that melded seemlessly with a moderate caramel malt. Flavor was grapefruit bitter, had a fruit punch sweetness, citric, nectar-floral, all with an underlying bitterness that somehow finished sweet. A decent east coast IPA.

Hoppy aroma, with a moderate off-white head. Creamy and hoppy flavor and it’s very smooth. Nice stuff.

golden pour, fizzy offwhite head quickly disappears. aroma is light citrus hop. nice medium mouthfeel, citrus hops and a bit of sweet malt, a bit bitter in the finish.. basically your typical ipa, nothing extraordinary going on here. however, that being said, this is well made and refreshing. a nice ipa

Bottle. Nice hopy flavor with a clean finish. Stronger that it seems as far as abv% goes. Nice beer.

Bottle. Light amber with a nice, fluffy head. Light citrus, mainly grapefruit in the nose. Light flavor (at first). Gets a bit heavier with nice, not strong hops. Not great, but worth drinking.