Firewater IPA
On tap at Barley's last night. The beer pours an orange amber color with good head retention and lacing. Unfortunately, this was to be as good as it gets for this beer. The nose was just flat out weird, and smelled as if it had been lightly infected with brett. There was some sour funk, which blended in an unusual way with the dank earth and very light citrus. Interestingly, I didn't get any sour component on the palate, with the beer simply coming across as a fairly dry, lightweight IPA with modest bitterness on the finish. Mouthfeel was light to the point I thought the beer a bit watery. Drinkability would normally be pretty good (it was obvious that the abv. was pretty low in this one), but there was so little flavor, with so little hoppy bitterness, I can't imagine ever having more then one of these. Mehhhh... I've had worse, but this was not very impressive.