Eddyline Crank Yanker Epic IPA

Brewed by Eddyline Restaurant and Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Buena Vista, Colorado USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Can. Pours orange with white head. Smells very citrusy, lots of malt. Tastes malty, crisp, citrus finish, has a slightly dirty taste to it. Good.

Craft Cans are exploding all over smaller breweries these days! Eddyline comes in 16oz Tall Boys and this one has already had a "label" reboot since debuting last year. Pours crystal clear with an orange hue and has a nice citrus aroma. Clean mouth feel and very nice to drink. Wish it had a little more hop punch.

Can. Pours a clear copper with a half finger of off white head. Settles instantly with minimal lacing. Aroma is hoppy, bitter, and citrus with a strange background, mildly soapy. Flavor is mildly hoppy, bitter, slightly sweet and medicinal. Aroma promises more than the flavor delvers. Soft carbonation, medium-light body, and smooth texture. A decent IPA, though a bit lacking in body and texture.

I don’t know why this is getting rated so low. At least out of the can, it has limited head but a pleasantly bubbly carbonation, a brilliant clear orange color, and is not a bad IPA. Granted, the nose is a bit indistinct, but it has quite a nice, refreshingly balanced sweet-bitter hoppiness.

Lots of pine resin to this one. A bit of bitter citrus. Straight-forward American IPA. Tasty and doesn’t make you think too hard about what you’re drinking.

Can. Head is initially small, fizzy, off-white, mostly diminishing. Body is dark yellow to light amber. Aroma is lightly malty (grain), moderately hoppy (resin), with notes of detergent, gasoline, carpet, onions. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter, unclean. Medium body, syrupy/watery texture, lively/soft carbonation, moderately alcoholic. Eddyline is one of the most amazing breweries in Colorado.

Crushed out of a 16 oz can. Excellent. Pours a clear orange with a fluffy white head. Initial sulfur/cheese hop aroma fades into a nice, fruity damascenone. More fruity hops in the flavor. Bready and balanced, with a finish that disappears quickly. A decent ipa.

Clear amber with a small soapy white head. Oh god. Overly malty. Tons of off flavors in this, Cotton candy. Ethanol. Rotten melon. Seriously? Is that even rotten melon or what the efffffff is that? Jesus. Scroll past.

Pour out of 16 oz can, thanks Aaron. Dark orange red pour with white head, aroma brought notes of pine, orange, hints of pine, grass, slight caramel, toffee, slight spice. Taste is a mix of sweet orange, grapefruit, toffee, caramel, hints of spice, pine, grass, finishing fairly sweet, slightly bitter. Ok.

Can in Vail, picked up at West Vail Liquor. Pours a bit hazy, dark orange appearance with a tan head. Fairly bitter, orange citrusy, light ethanol, a bit resiny aroma. A bit chewy, slightly malty, bitter herbal, light citrusy, slightly solvent/ethanol flavor. May not have been super fresh (best by 2/2013) and despite the mild solvent/boozy notes, this was a fairly decent ipa.