Sacramento Half-Pint IPA

Formerly brewed at Sacramento Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Sacramento, California USA

Draft. Rich amber beer with an off-white head. Big grapefruit and pine aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor with light caramel backing. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine lingers.

Floral and citrus hops in the nose. Somewhat earthy. Light sweet malt. pours amber with a thin head and decent lace. Pine and citrus, some sweet caramel and bready malts. Big bitterness in the finish. Lots of pine and dank resins. Leafy. Some sweetness comes in as it warms. I liked this one.

Tap at the brewpub. Clear amber with a little tan head. Warm malty aroma covered by floral, resin and citrus hop. Medium body with mild carbonation. Feels very soft and lush. Certainly more bitter than sweet, but the finish is a soft, non-harsh bitter. Yet the mouth feels nothing much except bitter. Very nice and hoppy indeed.

Tap into growler into glass at home. Pours a dark orange, kind of ruby, pretty clear. Large, foamy, off-white head. Aroma is nice, not as profound as the typical DIPA, put is very pleasant with grapefruit hops, unsmoked high-grade cannabis, pine, and sweet floral malts. Wow, flavor is alive on this one! Gooey sweet malt, smoky too, strangely. A little flora again, hoppiness throughout, though not a hop bomb. Pretty complex for a SacBrew. Alcohol presence increases until the end, when it becomes just plain hot. Sticky, oily mouthfeel. Thick and creamy I might add. I must say, I wasn’t expecting this one to be this enjoyable, maybe because I’ve been burned by SBC beers in the past. But this one really stands out. Overall, very good to excellent.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours cloudy orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet candy and fruity hops. Fruity and solid malt sweet flavoured. Light orange fruity hops flavour. Light bitterness into the finish alongside a mild fruity note.

growler. thanks, riverside! Pours crystal clear medium amber with a dense tan head. Big piney, earthy nose. Big creamy body. Earthy, leafy mid-palate, almost garlicky, with big piney overtones. Long deeply earthy finish, kinda garlicky and peppery. Fun, rich DIPA.

growler - thanks riversideak!! clear, bight orange with fluffy white head; thin texture is kind of flat; piney sweet, sticky and super dry; kind of dank and syrupy; hop nose faded, but plenty of bitter remains in the flavor

On tap. Clear amber golden with an off-white head. Fat, juicy but also raw hoppy aroma. Medium body, a little fruit and caramel but otherwise completely dominated by an extreme and brutal bitterness. 130709