Cranky Reviews

Reo Speedwagon told us that if you take it on the run then they don’t want you around.* My guess is if you are on the run then you are already not around, problem solved. This brew is On The Lam, and we aren’t talking mint jelly here. On the lam, as in high tail and jump bail, avoiding the authorities, pulling an OJ.**

Bicycle tell us that this double dry hopped juicer is a “get away” quaff. Break away from the everyday, spend a week/day/evening or hour living dangerously. Find yourself, lose yourself, then find yourself again. Escape what they may be implying is the mundane existence of a beer reviewer. Ok, that interpretation seems a little too close to home.

A dusky orange pour incognito under a bright white full frothy head. Hopical and tropical on the nose, the aromas combined. Tropical juice with hops and bitters in sequence. A pillowy mouthfeel. I taste nectarines with grapefruit bitters. Evolving to juice malt funk bitters, a bit of the same old same old. Now the bitters have come out of hiding.

To be honest, On the Lam wasn’t that hard to find, or drink. Not quite the escape from the everyday that I had hoped for.  A decent enough IPA, but in a world of thousands of them  I’m starting to look for standouts. ***