12 oz single, $1.69, Jax, Sandy Springs, GA, USA.
Pale pour with a little too much yellow color as opposed to orange hue for my liking. Some half-decent head and lacing make up for the lack of color a little bit. A little grainy in the nose.
Looking through the reviews for this beer I get the feeling that there is a pattern. To me this is a decent enough, simple English IPA with mild hop bitterness and a tiny bit of lingering grapefruit in the finish. Good malt balance is present too. Unfortunately, many American palates fail to recognize the value or the beauty in a MILDLY hopped IPA! Of course, this type of beer is much more like the English version of the style that has been hijacked so often in the US.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the American IPA’s and DIPA’s, but in that mix, too many of these more subtle, less aggressive, well made beers have been lost and under-appreciated.