![]() Founded in 1986, the Boston-based company has grown to become a category leader in craft beer, and one of the largest breweries in the country.ĭan has been integral to Harpoon’s sustained growth. Harpoon IPA was a really interesting beer to drink and I’m glad I wasn’t disappointed by what may be my last post.Dan Kenary is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mass Bay Brewing Co (MBBC), the parent company of the Harpoon Brewery. The IPA was really something else in a world filled with copycats and it scored a 4 out of 5 pints, something I look forward to drinking again. The label art is nothing special though, the brewery logo with some flowers, I think they are lilies, in each corner. Harpoon IPA was a very good standard of what an India Pale Ale should be like and it even added a little twist to make it interesting for the drinker. I thought it was a really nice touch to the regular IPA flavour, this is why I gave the second rating of flavour an 8.5/10. ![]() It had a pine after taste that I hadn’t noticed the first time. The flavour of the IPA had changed just like the aroma, not dramatically but enough to make a difference. It was something that I really liked but also something I’ve had before, so I could only rightly give it a 7/10. The flavour of this IPA is not too different from any others I have had before it had a slight bitterness from the hops that hit your mouth first but it soon gave way to the malt flavouring. It’s always a good day when I get to drink beer, one of my major conflicts on whether to keep going on this blog or not, but now we’re onto the flavour of the IPA something I love. For the rating of the mouthfeel I gave it a 9/10. It is something that I could drink for hours and hours and not get sick of it. Then as you move your tongue around the sharpness leaves and is replaced with a thick, smooth and rounded liquid in your mouth. The mouthfeel of this IPA was something that I am really starting to enjoy, it has a sharpness to it that goes straight for your tongue. ![]() Moving right along we come to the same old spot in the blog, the mouthfeel, something that I find to be important in any beer. It was a small change to the aroma but it was something that I hadn’t had in an IPA before which made it something different and enjoyable, I gave the second rating of the aroma an 8.5/10. The smell hadn’t changed much but for some reason to me it seemed to be sweeter than the last time. For the first rating of smell I gave the IPA a 7/10. It was a great smell and I thought it was really it was a great smell and I thought it was really well done, I was just hoping it would be something different then the regular. It had a very floral smell to it, something like a greenhouse filled with flowers. The aroma of the IPA was also something that was very generic to the type of beer. I really enjoyed looking at the glass, although it didn’t have anything truly unique to it, I still couldn’t take my eyes off of it. The carbonation of the IPA was spread nicely throughout the glass and slowly sped up as it rose. The head of the IPA poured out to about a 1 and a half centimetre frothy white top, after about 5 minutes it had settled down to a 1 centimetre tall thick white head. When I held it up to the light it lightened into a light yellow brown colour, this was a nice colour but I definitely preferred the golden brown colour. The appearance of the IPA was very traditional a nice golden brown colour that reflected streams of golden light around my table. Luckily to help me with my decision, I have Harpoon Brewery’s IPA, for those who don’t know India Pale Ale, this brewery has over 20 years of craft beer brewing under their belt which has made me very excited to give it a try. This marks the end of the mandatory posts for this blog and now the tough decision of whether to continue or end it all here.
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