BlackStack Is West Coast IPA Okay?7.3% ABV.
BlackStack Brewing, St. Paul, MN.
Well, yeah, it is. That answers your question, right? Better be a good one.
Thoroughly clouded, not clear in the slightest, bold yellow, slim white head.
In the nose: Big citrus, huge lemon, a little lime and grapefruit.
In the mouth: Juicy, citrusy, and utterly devoid of bitterness. Let's try again. Well...slight bitterness, medium bodied, fairly easy drinking, but this tastes in no way like a West Coast IPA. Barely makes it as any kind of IPA. There's no bitter hit on the palate at all.
Let's see what the description says: Sorry Hun, we ran out of foggy brews to release this week. Is West Coast IPA Okay? It’s clear & a lil’ bitter, just like what they drank in covered wagons on the frontier. Simcoe, Mosaic & Strata done up crispier than a side of diner-style H-Browns.
Huh. It's not clear and not even slightly bitter. The logo suggest Pepsi-Cola, and yeah, I get it, but how did they forget how to make a West Coast IPA? They just did one, called Concerned Citizen, released not too long ago, and it was perfect. Now, they put this in cans as ...I don't know, some kind of a joke?
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