 freekyp (791), Thomasville, North Carolina, USA
Jun 30, 2004 Frothy head with a hazy amber body. Herb-like vegetable aroma is present. Light bodied with a short moderately bitter middle, tempered by English-style malts. Not bad, but their bitter is better (and more bitter, I felt).
bb (2003), Martinez, California, USA
Aug 26, 2003 Draft. Very hoppy beer with a great bitterness and strong hop flavors. This is a good beer. After driving around New England and having too many awful IPA's (have other brewers even heard of hops??), this is one that actually has some hops to it
muzzlehatch (4424), Burlington, Vermont, USA
Jul 20, 2002 Updated: Mar 10, 2003July 02: On tap at the VT brewers' fest. Nice hoppy IPA, deep orange in color, lots of orange/grapefruit in the nose, good body with some malt balancing the bitterness.
March 03: I must've been overly generous last Summer, or else I had this late in the day when my tastebuds were snapped. Oh, its not terrible, hell its above average from this swill-producing lair of drunk stoned smelly hippies whose vocabulary is built solidly around the words "dude" and "bud"; but this is just a faintly floral, semi-hoppy, vaguely "Englishy" syrupy peppery out-of-balance and out-of-whack IPA. I marvel at how mediocre some brewpubs can be and still stay in business, but I guess when your typical customer gets out of his brand new Forester in his $300 North Face jacket, walks in so fried it takes him five minutes to work out the syllables "g-i-v-e m-e a p-i-n-t o-f y-o-u-r l-i-g-h-t-e-s-t, b-r-o-t-h-e-r" and forgets to get his platinum card back at the end of the night so you can bump the tip sky-high, well it don't take no genius to make money.
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