Coronado Hoppy Daze IPA

Sampled from 22-oz bottle. Pours a hazy golden pale yellow colored beer with a thick off-white head that has some nice retention. Aroma of tropical fruit, some citrus and floral hops, a touch of foot socks, and sour pineapple. Taste is medium to full bodied, flavors of spicy citrus, toasted biscuits, vanilla, some multi-grain malt and a touch of candi sugar. Finish is slightly sweet with some tropical fruit aftertaste with bitterness that slowly disappears.

Coronado’s Hoppy Daze is definitely a one-of-a-kind-type of beer, especially considering the fact that we’re classifying it as an impy IPA. I would go more with a Belgian Strong or American Strong Ale, because this is a flavorful and unique combination of a Belgian tripel and an IPA. The beers a hazy golden color with a small but lacy beige head. The nose is a combination of fruits, citrus, bread, candi sugar, hops, grass, lemon and orange peel. The body is fairly light but drinkable. The flavors contain a lively and carbonted zing, with notes of floral hops, bread, oranges, pine, wild yeast and grapes. The alcohol level is extremely well-hidden. This beer would really creep up on you, without any warning, after two or three. The finish is really interesting. This beer leaves a bit of a sweet and sour note, combined with a spicy and bitter hoppy tone. This is definitely one unique and interesting beer.

Tap at Capones. Pours a hazy golden with a creamy lacing white head. Aroma was a handful of fresh American hops. Mixed citrus, floral and pine. Some caramel and bready malts. Flavor of the same. One heck if a great IPA.

Bottle Pours a cloudy dark tan with a good white head. The head lasts well and laces excellently. Has a good hoppy aroma of pine, sour citrus, and a touch of alcohol. Has a good carbonation. The flavor is more mild than the aroma would lead you to believe. Has a good cleaniness too it. Has a good amount of bitter hops. Blended well, and the alcohol is very well hidden. Has a resiny texture. A medium body. A real good finish with a hearty aftertaste. This is a real tasty DIPA. I like it.

Bomber! Pours a hazy amber orange body with a thin bubbly head. Huge grassy vanilla spicy pine and fresh herbal hoppiness. Big and grassy with some sharp hop resins a bit like kb and sticky, sharp vine like sappiness and a light soil like mineralization. Moderate warming with more grassy hemp/bud like dryness. Wow what a beer.

Bottle… Cloudy golden ale with a mid-sized, creamy, white head. Good retention. I didn’t realize this was an American-hopped/Belgian-style IPA until I took my first sniff. Only then did I go grab the bottle and read the label more carefully. The aroma, at first, comes across as a bit medicinal. The whole Belgian yeast/American hop combination has never worked for me. At the same time, I couldn’t stop sniffing this stuff. To do so would be akin to trying to take my eyes off a high speed accident involving a school bus and a cement truck. The more I sniffed, the more this odd combination grew on me until I actually liked it. Same with the traffic accident. After the initial shock and horror at all the gore, I’m on the cell phone with everyone I know telling them the carnage that I saw… just to beat the nightly news to the punch. People are so wrong! Anyway, this beer’s bouquet is absolutely bursting-at-the-seams with American hops, spicy phenols and fruity esters. Medium-bodied with soft carbonation. Sugary, spicy flavor up front; lots of citrusy, earthy hop bitterness follows. The sweetness does win out , but not by a whole lot. Finishes bittersweet and a touch phenolic. Bottle courtesy of giarcsr. Thanks, Ryan!

Pours a nice orange, a little hazy with a thin lasting head. Aroma had a good amount of pine and grapefruit, a little bread, pale malts, a touch of booze, and some nice spicy Belgian Yeast. Up front, the flavor was a nice blast of bitterness in the form of pine, grapefruit, and pepper followed by some bready pale malts, some sweeter malts, and banana, clove, spicy esters from the yeast. A little bit of alcohol in the finish, but overall this was a pretty nice. Some spice from the yeast and herbal/piney notes from the hops were left over and lingering. Pretty solid.

Pours turbid dull gold with off-white head and spare lace. Nose is resiny hops, citrus, tangerine, pineapple, with a hoppy flavor, backed by solid malt, and a plethora of citrus fruit flavors. Well hidden alcohol in this. Starts a tad sweet but finishes hoppy and citrus fruity. This one is outstanding, and a beer that I will buy again.