Origin: New Zealand
Type: India Pale Ale
Color: Amber-gold
Alcohol content: 7%
Recommended serving temperature: 10ºC/50ºF
Brewery: Yeastie Boys
I am steering away from my usual continents for
today's post and heading down under, more specifically to New Zealand, to write
about another one of my pleasant discoveries from this summer, the Yeastie Boys
Digital IPA.
This beer calls itself an
"IPA as they should be", something which is no doubt open for debate
depending on your tastes. However, what is in my opinion not really debatable
is that it is different from the rest of them.
The digital IPA is golden in
color, with certain ambery notes to it and some haziness. This is already
different from many IPAs, which tend to be slightly darker, closer to amber.
As you pour it develops an
impressive amount of foam of a soapy consistency, which stays all along while
you drink it.
Its smell is incredibly
complex, mixing characters typical of an American East Coast IPA and a West
Coast IPA, with others not really common in any IPA. As such you can find
resiny and earthy touches, mixed in with soft tropical fruits (passion fruit,
says the quote on their webpage) and lemon, but also a bready aroma that
somehow blends in perfectly with the bitterness, making it quite balanced
overall.
The flavor is also not
entirely what you would expect from your usual IPA. Same as in the smell, you
find resin and fruits, both citrus and tropical, blended in with a bready
taste. However, not only the bread balances out the bitterness, but there is
also a distinctly malty touch to it which made me pick up the bottle again and
look at the label to confirm that I was indeed drinking an IPA.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not
saying the Digital IPA is not bitter, it is, but only sometimes. It mixes many
more things than this, and as such would probably go well with many more
different foods than your run of the mill IPA, surely being great with your
more fusiony meals.
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