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Fiddler’s Green IPA
Yet another brewery that I haven’t yet seen around NC! I’m pleased to see so many new brewers getting distribution in our area. Frankly, pickin’s were getting pretty slim around here for new beers and, as I’m not willing to relocate to Europe to continue this blog, it caused a slight drought (not draught) in the amount of reviews you’ve been seeing lately. I’m glad to say that three Fiddler’s Green offerings have shown up, but today we’ll just be looking at the IPA.
This IPA pours a fairly typical IPA hue – a deep golden with hints of amber and a thin white head. The aroma of this is quite lovely – there is a nice blend of floral with a good citrus bite in the nose. In the mouth, this is an excellent beer. The initial sensation is a pretty strong citrus bite on the tip of the tongue. After this, a rather complex floral note comes along and seeps into the nasal cavity, giving this beer a rather big flavor. On top of this, there is a good bitter note here that travels all the way down the tongue and into the aftertaste – it isn’t as big a bite as some IPAs, but it serves well to balance out the myriad flavors here. In the aftertaste, we get an interesting melange of all the aforementioned flavors, from the citrus to the floral. They advertise this beer as having won some IPA blind taste test. Frankly, EVERY beer seems to have won some award these days, but I can easily understand how this beer would do well in such a tasting – it’s a delicious beer, and one that might creep it’s way up to my regular drinker list.
