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Great Divide Brewing Co.
Denver, Colorado
Titan IPA
Style: American IPA
Availability: Year Round
Format: 12oz - 6pk
ABV: 7.1%
Batch: Bottled on Nov. 13 2009
Bottle text & Info:
Titan is a big, aggressively hopped India Pale Ale brewed for hop disciples. It starts out with piney hop aromas and citrus hop flavors, and finishes with a nice rich, malty sweetness that is balanced with crisp hop bitterness.
Tasting Notes:
Pours a glowing amber with a quarter inch head. Smells earth with some serious pine and sweet malt. Grapefruit and pine jump off the front followed by caramel like malt backing. Creamy, creamy mouthfeel with some hop resin bitterness cut nicely by the sweetness. This one is kindred spirits with Green Flash West Coast. An extremely enjoyable and solid IPA made for people who drink IPA's. No training wheels here, although at a little over $11 a six - this one's priced just outside of being your stock IPA.
Mother Earth Brewing Co.
Kinston, North Carolina
Sisters of the Moon
Style: American IPA
Availability: Year Round (approximate release statewide retail date is tentatively set for mid Feb. 2010)
Format: 12oz - 6pk
ABV: 6.9%
Bottle text & Info:
Made with hops grown in the good 'ol USA... you'll proudly support American farmers when you drink this beer! Light copper in color, it has an intense hop aroma and strong hop bitterness. Our hopback process uses fresh hop cones to take this IPA to unexpected places. Prepare for a mouthful of flavor.
Tasting Notes:
Pours a hazy orangish light amber with a half inch thick ivory head. clings to the glass a nice thick body. Grassy nose with some fruit; most noticeably mango followed by some papaya. An extremely herbal/grassy IPA with some nice citrus notes. Definitely a welcome addition to the state and the best bottled IPA to date. Some definite sweet malts to hold it together. Hops are there but nothing that peels the enamel off your teeth. A solid stepping stone IPA and another solid offering from the east side of I-95.
Mother Earth Brewing Co.
Kinston, North Carolina
Endless River
Style: Kolsch
Availability: Year Round (approximate release statewide retail date is tentatively set for mid Feb. 2010)
Format: 12oz - 6pk
ABV: 4.9%
Bottle text & Info:
A clean, crisp beer, Kolsch offers a very slight fruity flavor and aroma. It is light gold in color, with a delicate head. This light-bodied beer appeals to nearly everyone who samples it. Expect to enjoy a slight tang in the finish.
Tasting Notes:
Pours a bright golden, crystal clear pale yellow with lazy streaming lines of carbonation up the glass. Wow. Great nose, grass, grains and a bright floral bouquet with some chardonnay-like notes. An incredibly delicate sweet malt front interwoven with grassy, herbal hop notes with a subtle and pleasant drying finish. This is what a lawnmower beer should be! A welcome beer in the North Carolina light beer category and probably the best statewide bottled light beer and definitely the best NC kolsch replication. This should be the official summer beer of North Carolina. Prost!
Mother Earth Brewing Co.
Kinston, North Carolina
Weeping Willow Wit
Style: Witbier
Availability: Year Round (approximate release statewide retail date is tentatively set for mid Feb. 2010)
Format: 12oz - 6pk
ABV: 5.0%
Bottle text & Info:
"This beer style is over 400 years old, and continues to enjoy overwhelming popularity. Offering low hop bitterness, it is easy to enjoy. It pours very hazy, with a light gold color... we say it's like summertime in a glass. Bitter orange peel and fresh coriander add zest and depth to this refreshing beer."
Tasting Notes:
Pours a straw colored gold with little to no head. smells of sweet wheat malt and not much else. Taste is quite earthy and herbal with the usual suspects in the mix; coriander, wheat and heavy amounts of lemon. Not a bad wheat beer, God knows not many NC brewers pull this style off with any consistency. Areas for improvements? yes. Give me a little junk in the bottom. Too filtered lending it too light of a body with a bit of overkill on the lemon zest. Not quite weighty enough and a little bit too tart for what I consider a great witbier. This one's more a hefe, to be quite honest.
