The East Coast Tour continues. After visiting Bathurst, now it’s time to drop in on Trailway Brewing in Fredericton and their double IPA. Sensible Nonsense sounds like a Refined Fools brew, or an apt description of most political campaigns these days, but what do I know, I just review beers. A lowly consumer, a cog in the economic system called capitalism. At the mercy of the malevolent marketing mavens and their insidious campaigns to separate me from the paltry earnings that the government has left after taking their many pounds of flesh*. What that has to do with a double IPA from Fredericton no one knows but I am all cranked up now for a double IPA brew review.
Trailway tell us that this was brewed with Aussie Vic Secret hops, sounds like the recent Down Under review which also used Vic Secret. An Aussie invasion sounds imminent, first point of attack the East Coast. Arm the gables and tell Anne to get out the shotgun**.
This brew pours perfectly into a hazy citrus fruit golden with a nice bright white head. It all makes sense so far. Tropical fruit and hoppy on the nose and in it. First swig is an aggressive tropical fruit, almost syrupy, with hops and bitters, nothing shy about this double IPA. The fruity tropical syrupy is borderline boozy. Strong hoppy finish but not too bitter, it isn’t disguising it’s 8%. After a few swigs a boozy fruit floral unattractive (dank) aftertaste developed, damn, what kind of nonsense is that. Borderline seems to be the case for the rest of the brew, the overbearing aftertaste comes and goes with lots of fruit, sometimes syrupy over the top, and other times just aggressive.
An OK Double IPA, but sensible nonsense seems to be unbalanced at times, go figure.
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