DC Brau The Corruption

Brewed by DC Brau Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Washington DC, Washington DC USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Sampled at 4th NoVA Summer Brewfest. Pours hazy orange with a large, frothy cream colored head, medium-long retention with excellent lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (biscuit, meal, grain), heavy hops (citrus, herbal, earthy), and average esters (fruity) with notes of apricot. Flavor is bitter, heavy hops with malt underneath. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth and a dry finish.

Can. Nice American-style pour, airy and well-topped, opaque dark bronze underneath. The aroma is nice, laden with piney goodness. This drinks with a more robust woodsiness than I’d anticipated, chewy with tree sap, and a bitter bark-heavy outdoorsiness (#4605, 5/26/2012)

Poured a hazy amber color with a medium-sized white head. Aroma has pine needles with citrus. Some fruit with more citrus in the taste. A good amount of hops. Crisp finish, nice.

Opaque amber pour with a vivacious white head. Lots of citrus and piney resin in the nose lead to juicy stone fruit and orange peel in the flavor. Presumably low mash temps lead to a light body that is extremely poundable. Great attenuation with a crisp piney finish. Really nice.

Can pours hazy light amber with an off white head. Aroma are earthy pine and some bitter citrus. Tastes are bitter, dry, and earthy with pine dominating. The body is light to medium and the finish is long, dry and bitter. Overall, a nice IPA

(12 oz can courtesy of GT2; Thanks!) Pours a hazy amber with good tan head. Good retention and lace. Aroma is hoppy with dominant notes of pine and a hint of dust. Oily texture, medium carbonation, full body and a short and slightly bitter finish. Flavour follows the nose but also shows leafy or earthy notes and a hint of bubblegum. Relatively mild bitterness - countered by the residual sweetness. Girlfriend says: "The bitterness is quite present. But it’s refreshing and not too imposing"

Thanks to Travlr! Pours hazy amber with a beige head. Aroma is organic hops, orange, pine, weak tropical notes, weak sweeter malty notes behind and some citrus fruits. Taste is pine, bitter hops, pretty organic feel to it, malts behind, citrus fruits and just overall pretty decent IPA.

thanks travlr. canned. pours hazy golden orange, with a longlasting pillowy head. Aroma: very piney, golden syrup, citrussy, mango, peach, orange peel, fresh hops, caramel malty, some passion fruits, guava, tropical fruits niceness. Taste: sweet caramel malts, quite present malty sweetness, quite balanced though, peach, medium bitterness, dryness, some grassy notes, orange peel, pine, grape fruit/peel. ends very dry with a present but not aggressive bitterness.

12 oz can from travlr. Golden pour, small white head. Aroma is very piney and citrusy with the hops, a bit of grapefruit and melon, a small hint of malt. The taste has a slightly more malty impression with some sweetness and crustiness, grapefruit and piney hoppiness, a bit citrusy, slightly tropical fruitiness. Pretty nice.

Poured from 12oz can to tulip: Pours a chill-hazed mid amber with a nice looking, loose expanding head. Nice sticky lacing. The nose is good and heavy - I’m struggling to pin this one down. There’s a nice variety of hop use here. Fruity, citrus, some apple. The taste isn’t as complex as the nose would suggest. Leafy, obvious hops. The pine bite has been dialed back to spruce. Nice citric qualities. Overall, this is a great beer. Wouldn’t mind having this one added to MN distribution.

5/1/12. 12oz can thanks to GT2 for RBSH2!

Hazy orange pour with a nice khaki head that sticks and laces in thick rings. Really nice hop aroma that reminds me of popping open fresh American hops while brewing... citrus, pine, dank, and more. The flavor has less of a hop pop - there is a nice chunk of citrus and pine, especially pine - but the chocolate and caramel of the malt pops through more. Still pretty tasty, though!