Santa Cruz IPA

A hazy golden color with a white foam top grabs your eyes and invites you to take in the earthy hay grass aroma into your nose. The slight bitter flavor fills in the medium body. Yet, the bit too lively fizz leaves you with a tickle bright ending. Santa Cruz Ale Works delivers an everyday drinking I.P.A. at the right price. For a 6.5er, you can pick up this rock-solid performer for $1 less than other I.P.A.s

This hazy golden ale poured with a decent off-white head and a floral aroma. The flavor is creamy caramel malt with some serious hopping. However, the balance is off, resulting in too much bitterness and not enough body.

Bomber from BevMo. Pours hazy gold with a frothy white head. Aromas of floral hop over pale malt sweetness. Near medium body with finely creamy carbonation. It’s hoppy - think I got a fresh one. It’s bitter. It’s floral and a bit citrus. Finish is clean and hoppy. And bitter. Maybe BevMo should keep them in the cooler.

Aroma is somewhat oxidized stale earthy hops. Some odd sweetness as well. Poured a nice shade of gold with a great big head. Tastes plasticy sweet initially followed by some odd yeasty esters. Earthy leafy hops are there in the finish, but are just off. Carbonation is pretty big. The bottle I had was really just plain unpleasant.

Its a fizzy little bastard. Sharp carbonation and lots of it, like they add CO2 and bottle condition it. Far end of the bitter spectrum, so much so that there is little hop taste, or even malt taste for that mater. Their description of super hoppy is inaccurate, its high in IBUs but low in hoppyness. Not a good aroma, smells like fermenter sanitizer. Pretty dry, simple, bitter. If they added some hops for aroma, dry hopped it and made a more flavorful malt it would be excellent. Wait, that would be a different beer, oh well.