IPA battle

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After enjoying a few light ales and euro IPA style beers, such as Haviestoun's Schellalion and Adnam's Innovation. One of the recent warm weekends I had a hankering for some IPA. Might aswell do a spot of US IPA assesment then I suppose.

In order of preference

Goose Island
By far my favourite. It had all that extra American hop taste but it still had soem malt flavour, it was round but clean. Very nice. Now top of my IPA shopping list

Big Daddy - Speakeasy
The comic bottle and cringey marketing aside ths was very passable. It was jut as the pic shows a little cloudier than expecting but the hop was still all there.

Sierra Nevada - Torpedo
I was led to believe that this was the king, the benchmark for US IPA. For me it went too far, it was all Hop and that meant it just tasted dry and powdery on the pallet. I really like some SN stuff, their porter is very nice. But this was a step (yeah I'll ay it), a hop too far for me.

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