My first Shipyard beer. Heard a bit about the brewery, but just never ran across them.
Pours a clear, coppery amber with a very nice light tan head that gets pillowy before thinning. You can smell the hops from a couple of feet away. That may signal a loss of taste if it throws off everything it has, but we'll see. Good, grassy hops smell, but not really enough malt for an IPA.
Well, this one is hard to nail down. Big alcohol bite for some reason. Fair amount of bitterness, but again the malt seems lower than it should be. It's there in the body, but not the taste, for some reason. It should be a little sweeter, but instead it's more like a bitter. Not bitter as in hops, but bitter as in the style. The finish is hollow and a bit harsh.
Not a great start for my Shipyard experience. Not a bad beer, but a tad off type.
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