The Stonewall Inn: 5.0 – The mixed pack came with an IPA and given it’s heritage via name it felt cruel to not even give it a review. As far as IPAs go it’s mercifully not super bitter at all. Oh sure you know it’s an IPA and not just a pale, but it could have been much worse – it’s simply too mild and needs a kick of something. Do as we do and add a bit of lemonade and it’s a peach.
Price Average: $20 for mixed 12-pack
Website: https://brooklynbrewery.com/
Petal Prophecy Honey IPA: 7.0 – This site tends to shy away from IPAs (unless you are River Styx brewing), but we still try IPAs despite our bias, and review the ones we like – this is one of those. While there ideally would be just a touch more honey or spice to make this an amazing beer – it’s an IPA worth talking about.
Price Average: $13 for 4-pack cans
Website: http://burlingtonbeercompany.com/
Disconnected: 7.5 – While it certainly leans more on the juice side of beer, there’s no denying the balance of citrus and hops here with a bit of tang and bitters is just right. It’s tropical, it’s fruity, and it’s fucken phenomenal. Out of an understanding with our IPA bias, we tend to not post/write about them here – but this is fan-tastic.
Price Average: $9 draft
Website: https://www.discordbeer.com/
Nectar of Aristaeus: 8.0 – That really is like a creme saver in beer form. The hops are there throughout, but the overall flavor is really just strawberries & cream and it’s delicious. This is what makes you wish IPA’s were more about – hops throughout, but unique in flavor.
Price Average: $8 Draft
Website: http://riverstyxbrewing.com/
Liquication: 3.0 – Great. Just another IPA that’s so much an IPA. Not much to say here other than fuck IPA’s
Price Average: $13 for 12-Pack Sampler
Website: http://www.wachusettbrew.com
Mass Soul: 2.0 – It’s difficult. See it’s a game between what to hate more. The Mass Soul name and icon, or the beer itself. Both are terrible gross approximations, but then the beer is also really bad. That and ‘A Soulful IPA’ – FUCK you.
Price Average: $13 for 12-Pack Sampler
Website: http://www.wachusettbrew.com
Larry: 4.0 – The nature of the imperial giving more taste to the alcholic content is at least something to stymie the IPA bitter & hops. Sadly much like the one yesterday (and 2 more in the coming weeks) this will end up where it belongs – mixed with lemonade into a much nicer shandy.
Price Average: $13 for 12-Pack Sampler
Website: http://www.wachusettbrew.com
Green Monsta: 3.0 – No your eyes do not decieve, that is an IPA, and tomorrow there will be another. This review is starting badly, because as you know HBR buys things seemingly at random – however this ‘Pale Ale Sampler’ was actually code for IPA’S BITCHES. We’re sad now. Anyway the beer. Green Monster is another name for weed, which is what this tastes like – ugh.
Price Average: $13 for 12-Pack Sampler
Website: http://www.wachusettbrew.com
Hop-15: 3.0 – If you were to ask on a scale from 1-10 how hoppy this is it would a fifte– okay sorry. Honestly it’s an overhopped ale, and it suffers for that. And it’s an IPA – which explains a lot.
Price Average: $8
Website: http://portbrewing.com/
Forty Things We Share : 4.0 – Imagine a pale ale mixed with orange soda. That gives you an idea of the look, and to a certain degree the taste this beer provides. Its an okay hoppy pale ale (apparently is an American Double/IPA and Imperial), but the citrus here is more like koolaid citrus… I can’t find any mention of it on the site, and if it wasn’t showing up on the old BA and untapp’d I’d almost question if it really existed at all.
Price Average: Forty Things We Share $7 draft
Website: https://singlecutbeer.com/