Another fine US beer bought over by my friend from New York, the brewery is near to him in NY State and comes highly rated.
Opens with gentle fizz, pours a deep deep copper. Gentle toffee in the noses, slight pine, no big American floral hops but a lovely grassy tingle of English ones.
It kicks off with a giant blast of Crystal malt, big sweet caramel flavours delight the tonge, before warping into burnt sugar, complete with it's bitterness. There is a glimpse of fruit before kicking on to the finish. No shortage of hopping here, like the earlier aroma it's not a big blast of America hoppy citrus, but the subtle bittering of the English style IPA.
8/10 A big caramel transatlantic IPA, floating somewhere between a big West Coast IPA and a Fullers ESB.
