How about a fireside hazy IPA for expanding my horizons. Truth be told (as it always is in these reviews) I like to have a stout or porter by the fire because it makes for a nice picture. And I do like to have a hazy laissez faire* IPA on a dog day afternoon by the BBQ as a hot weather thirst quencher. But at the cottage on a snowy night and I find my cottage beer fridge without a stout I haven’t reviewed and porterless, so it’s as good a time as any for a fireside Huntsville Canvas IPA of the hazy persuasion.
A nice orangish amber pour with a nice white head on this Horizon’s horizon. A hazy juicer from the extra pulp aisle, with particles in suspension. A big-time topical fruit aroma. First taste is a tropical fruit taste with a blunt, as opposed to a hoppy biting, grapefruit bitter finish. It does make for a nice transition and combo. It may, could, perhaps, perchance, evolve on future swigs? Nope. A consistent flavour and finish from first swig to last quaff.
Tropical fruit body with a grapefruit juice finish, not ruby red sweet, and not mellow yellow, and not hoppy, and not pine, but a grapefruit tart bitter which is goodness not badness**. It all works.
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