Haymarket Studs’ Hard Working American IPA

Brewed by Haymarket Pub & Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Draft on tap at the brewpub (Chicago, IL). Pours a healthy deeper amber pour, light haze, good glow of orange sunfire with a frothy offwhite decent sized head that dies to an ok film. Aromas are caramel and toffee mixed into orange and fruity hops, touches of peach and tropical, with bready and doughy malts, grass and florals. A mellow sweetness with decent hop notes on the nose, a bit weak with touches of sweeter malts peaking through pretty well. Initial is medium bodied preaching oranges, citrusy hops, grass, and florals. Some sweeter biscuits and toffee, though dry on the backend with a touch of carmelization. Some tropical and lemony hops with a touch of sweetness. Really, a good deal of orange and biscuits and toast. A bit tamer, yet tasty. Dry bitter soapy and floral finish really starts to linger on, dry and almost resinous on the palate with sweet lingering toffee, biscuits, and a touch of orange marmalade. Not my favorite of Pete’s hoppy beers, but drinkable and with a bitterness that does grow to a potent bite over time. It’s not a heavy IPA, but it’s got some malt substance with a still solid hoppy dry bitter quality that picks up strength further into the beer. A nice Chicago IPA, a bit more grounded and lacking on aroma.

Draft. Poured clear copper color with an average frothy off-white head that lasted with good lacing. Moderate earthy and sour citrus hop aroma. Medium to full body with a slick texture and soft carbonation. Moderate to heavy bittersweet flavor with a moderate to heavy bittersweet finish of medium to long duration. Very good brew.

Cloudy orange w/ a thin head of fine bubbles. Big, bright citrus and mango aroma. Bitterness pushes toward earthy and soapy but there is a good balanced. Medium bodied w/ light carbonation. Solid IPA.

Tap. Pours clear amber with a medium, fizzy white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (bread, cookie, toast), heavy hops (citrus, pine, floral), and average esters (apple/pear) with notes of apricot. Flavor is malty with heavy hops and fruity esters. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth with a dry finish.

Draft, pours golden amber with white head. Nose of cotton candy, peach fuzz, and honey dew. Flavors sweet melons, grapefruit, clemintines, a nice assertive bitterness. Clean and easy drinking. Nothing too special but a nice ipa.

Draft at Haymarket. Pours an attractive gold with orange at the edge. Nose is very resiny with strong notes of apricots & peaches. As it warms, lends more to the piney resins. Some light malt character is present in the nose as well. On taste, strongly bitter, lightly astringent. Lots of fruity hops that are kind of subdued by the bitterness present. A pretty solid IPA overall, just needs to have a bit of smoothness/less bitterness to really shine.