Opa-Opa Steakhouse A-10 Warthog IPA

Poured from the tap into a tasting glass. The color is a clear orange with a then foamy white head. Some small lacing. The smell is a citrus flavor with some piney hop feel but is slightly musted. The taste is a bit sweet with a bit heavy citrus hop flavor, also have some fruit flavor like lemon and grapefruit. Has a nice ry finnish. This beer has a medium body and is smooth with not too much carbonation. Goes down pretty good and is very drinkable.

Growler from Julio’s. Nice appearance, hops comes through in the flavor but not as much as I would have thought. There’s something about the flavor that I didn’t love, but still a nice effort.

Tasted at the 4th annual St. Bridget’s beer fest. Really sweet aroma of citrus. Cloudy orange color with a medium head. Sweet beginning with a hoppy but not too bitter finish.

From a growler purchased at Julio’s Liquors. Pours a lovely slightly hazy golden color with a 1/2" off white head and good lacing on glass. Just a beautiful beer to behold. Nose is hop dominate with grapefruit, citrus and pine like aroma with just an occasional whiff of the potent alcohol lurking within. Palate has a substantialness to it with just the right amount of carbonation. Flavor is a nice balance of the various hop flavors with some sweet caramel like flavors. Lasting bitter finish. I’m not typically an IPA guy, but this one wowed me. Very nice !

Poured from growler. Call it shock value, call it a freak batch, but Opa Opa’s new DIPA I just tried was a standout. At 12% ABV, I expected a hot and rather unbalanced offering, but what I got was the opposite. This beer features an excellent balance of a floral, citrus nose, with pine-like flavors and ripe nectarine flavors. So little of the alcohol is noticed offensively. Given how ho-hum some of this breweries other offerings are, this is such a pleasant surprise. The rep Dan said he would be selling this to stores in CT on a limited basis.

This is a beer for the ages. Not to be missed. Straight out of a growler the freshness of the brew could not be any better. The taste, the smell, the appearnace are all superb. Quite a beer to enjoy if you are into IPAs.

Pours gold into a snifter. Off-white whippeed cream head recedes leaving spot lacing. Grapefruit and resin aromas. Slightly syrupy and flat, but overall well balanced with caramel and citrus. Suprisingly little alcohol burn given the ABV. Lasting citrus finish.

Sampled this beer at the brewery. Was one of the better ones that were there.Had a nice hoppy taste to it.