Derek came up from San Diego and brought me some beers. This was one That he ranted and raved about, so I was excited to try it; Avery duganA IPA.
It's orange and cloudy with a thick foamy head. Not surprisingly, the nose on this IPA is all about hops. The hop aroma is the dry hop type, that is fresh and flowery and green. Dry hopping, by the way, is the process of adding hops tothe finished wort (unfermented, sweet beer)after the boil process is complete and allowing the hop character to infuse cold into the beer. It's a process that is common among IPAs and the hop aroma in duganA is precisely the goal of dry hopping. And although I don't know for certain that dry hopping is involved in this beer, my spidey sense tells me it is. Back to the beer.
The nose also has notes of bitter orange and some dank wet pine notes too.
The palate is full of Bitter, sticky hop flavor. It's a full bodied beer with lots of
piney resiny hoppieness. This beer has bitterness on top of bitterness.
In my mind, IPAs come in two types: the fresh, floral, herbal, crisp, light kind and the sticky, resiny, thick, piney kind. This one is definitely the second one.
8.5% ABV 93 IBU
7 out of 10
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