Tonight's beer: Hardywood The Great Return
Opens with an almost-searing blast of bitterness—grassy and floral (mainly) with threads of pine and grapefruit and maybe musk woven in. Pale-bready sweetness appears around and through the middle momentarily, then the beer turns sharply to steeply dry.
A bit lighter than medium-bodied, lots of carbonation. Thin sheety layers of syrupy stickiness clear quickly, leaving the beer starkly dry, clean and cleansing and refreshing.
A tasty American IPA, intense as hell and nicely complex. Something like balanced, given the style; nicely integrated and superbly drinkable. Most of what I've had from Hardywood has been large-format, high-ABV stuff; this is a refreshing change of pace from that. Impressive.
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| Hardywood The Great Return |
Opens with an almost-searing blast of bitterness—grassy and floral (mainly) with threads of pine and grapefruit and maybe musk woven in. Pale-bready sweetness appears around and through the middle momentarily, then the beer turns sharply to steeply dry.
A bit lighter than medium-bodied, lots of carbonation. Thin sheety layers of syrupy stickiness clear quickly, leaving the beer starkly dry, clean and cleansing and refreshing.
A tasty American IPA, intense as hell and nicely complex. Something like balanced, given the style; nicely integrated and superbly drinkable. Most of what I've had from Hardywood has been large-format, high-ABV stuff; this is a refreshing change of pace from that. Impressive.
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