Dogwood Breakdown IPA

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

10.08.04 12oz bottle thanks to Springslicker. Pours clouded and orangey gold with a gigantic head fading slowly and rocky, leaving sticky sheets of lace. Nice apricot and honeysuckle aromas yield to citrus and evergreen as the beer warms. Palate is soft, malt forward, and crisply finishing. The flavor seems to lose alot of the sweetness that the aroma teased with, but the beer is exceedingly drinkable. It’s too bad I only have one. Thanks for this treat, Jay!

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 8

Disapointing pour -- too rough of a pour gave a smaller than desired head that dissipated too quickly. Body is nice cloudy amber though that balances the head problems. Aroma is mostly citric hops over hefty malt backbone. Also a slightly sour not common in Dogwood beers. Starts off with nice hoppy bitterness then whacks you in the tongue with huge biscuity malt. Either lacks the sourness the aroma suggests or the hops and malt cover it. Got better as it warmed. If youlike your IPAs malty, this is for you. This bottle wasn't a foamer.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This beer pours a mildly cloudy orangey yellow color with this menacingly ridiculous head that left super frickin duper lacing all over the glass. One of the creamiest, most frothy heads I’ve ever seen...could have to do with this being nearly 2 years old. The aroma is fruuuuuuuuuuuity! Citrus, pine and a hint of malty sweetness..almost candy sugar. The flavor is medium bodied, and mildly carbonated and sticky. The flavor is sweet and citrusy with apricot sugars in mid sip followed by an earthy, dirty and twiggy bittering near the finish. Some malty cardboard towards the end, perhaps a hint of banana and grapefruit. Nice mouthfeel, a good but (since im used to west coast IPA’s) tamed IPA. Why did they have to go out of business...whyyyyy!

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Opaque orange color with a frothy white head. Not much aroma. The flavor is slightly hoppy, but a bit thin. This is a nice session beer. It would be good w/ pizza or burgers

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 8

Bottle @ Summits. Pours a cloudy golden color with as big of a head that I wanted. Nice floral hoppy aroma but the taste isn’t as hoppy as the aroma. Malty taste and light hop bitterness. Very drinkable, kinda light, kinda mellow.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A very nice IPA, and one of the better brews from Dogwood. Standard IPA --citrusy, floral, hops, with some sweetness. More of a british style than a west coast hopfest.

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

A good IPA from this local micro brew. Aroma is citrus and pine. Flavor is a little mild for an IPA, more malt than hops. Nice sour fruit taste. This is very similar to the Britsh style IPA's more so than the West Coast hop fests. This would be a way to get someone into the IPA style with out "Stone-ing" them to death with hops. Nice one.