Arbor HXL IPA

Brewed by Arbor Brewing Company Pub & Eatery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Pint @ brewery. Golden color, Nice hoppy aroma and a flavorful, but not overdone body. Very drinkable, almost session-like.

Tasted much more along the lines of a IIPA to me, with the hop characteristics being quite strong. Much more than bitterness, there was citrus and resin flavors. Body was sweet, almost a belgian like sweetness. Overall, nothing spetactular but ok.

Tap. Pours a hazy orange-amber color with a smalisl white head, fair amount of lacing. Aroma is floral hops, some malt, pine. Flavor is lightly toasted malt, nice punch of floral hops, pine, grapefruit. Palate is medium bodied, medium carbonation, slightly sticky, bitter finish. Decent brew.

Pretty thick-bodied and not a lot of carbonation. Like many other big grapfruity, citrusy IPAs; in fact the malt bill is dominated by the hops so much that it’s not a bitter anymore, at least to me. Tasty, but over the top.