Arizona Wilderness Suit-n-tIePA

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Drank a ton of this and rated it in 2015. Growler pours with a copper to gold body that supports a light tan head. The aroma offers up sweetness, mango and citrus flavored gummy bears. The taste starts with a mild malt sweetened wild yeast twang. It then gets into sweet mango and citrus hoppiness that’s almost all flavor hops and little bitterness. A dash of hop bitterness does present itself midway and into the finish to provided added balance and depth. Nice easy drinking IPA. 7 4 8 4 15 Sept 2015 batch with a few weeks on it. While just a few days into the initial tapping this was a nice IPA with a subtle thin Brett sensation well off into the background. With several weeks of age the Brett has come forward but has melded and blended softly with the various citrus and tropical fruit like hop flavors. This just attains a whole new level where the soft yet firm Brett notes enhance and round out the hoppiness rather than being abrasive and taking away. 2 to 3 weeks this beer is peaking. Wow! The only knock I have is the Brett does not enhance the aroma but rather is a too forward. That being said the flavor is money! Into the finish it picks up a mild bready graininess that adds just another dimension and helps to ground the experience. 7 4 9 5 18