Smuttynose Big A IPA - Smuttynose Brewing Company

thebrood1987

New Jersey

4.88/5  rDev +22%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Nice hazy darker golden yellow color with suspended yeast sediment. On the smell I get huge citrus and sweet grapefruit notes with some pine in the background. This beer is so incredibly smooth and rich as soon as it hits your tongue its this sweet citrus and sweeter malt flavor and then ending with that citric grapefruit and yes piney bitterness. The smell matches the nose but even more bitter and dry then you'd imagine from what you get from the smell. This beer kind of reminds me of Stone's Ruintation but maybe a touch less bitter thats all. The coolest thing about this beer besides its pure rich hoppy goodness is that I seriously cannot detect the alcohol in the smell or taste at all.

I'm pretty blown away by this actually because its almost 10 percent alcohol and it drinks like a 6 or 7 percent IPA. It's actually a refreshing crisp bitterness and I think I like this one better than their original Smuttynose Finest Kind. This has a sweeter taste to it and even though it has more bitterness then Finest Kind (which I would think would be a total bitter bomb because Finest Kind sure is) it definitely balances it out with the sweetness from the malts. Excellent beer and my all time favorite so far from Smuttynose.

Serving type: bottle

05-22-2011 02:05:06 | More by thebrood1987

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