August Schell Starkeller Moondrift Hazzzzzy IPA

August Schell Starkeller Moondrift Hazzzzzy IPA. One Groovy Ale. Citra, Sabro, El Dorado. 

6.3 % ABV, 35 IBU. August Schell Brewing, New Ulm, MN. 

And here we have a beer from August Schell Brewing with the Starkeller brand, but it is not a sour or barrel-aged ale. What's up with that? A hazy IPA, from Schell's? What has the world come to? 

Lightly hazed...hell, hardly hazy at all, bright golden color, slim white head. 

In the nose: Soft and citric. Leaning into dank. 

In the mouth: Slightly sharp and citric. A mess, but murkiness is not to blame. Fairly formless and incoherent. Light, easy drunk, but containing no character. Some tropical notes to match the citrus, and a bit of apricot/peach, but it's too mundane and amorphous to wish for another. I had hoped that I would have liked it, honestly, but it fails at what it's trying to be, and that's too bad. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong, and perhaps you'd like it, though. Merely average. Eh. 

Moondrift is an out-of-this-world Hazy IPA, and our first ever! The galaxy's best Citra, Sabro, and El Dorado hops produces blasts of grapefruit, orange, mango that’ll leave you starry-eyed.

That's from the website. This is from the label: Moondrift is a gravity-bending and tide-shifting ale that tastes like an interstellar mix of tangerine, coconut, pineapple, and stone fruit. Houston, it appears we don't have a problem. 

I have to ask, is everyone high except for me? "Coconut"? Come on....