I got this beer at the Kirkwood Green Tree Festival. The Festival had a wine garden with 3 wines and 5 or 6 of Alandale's beer. Alandale is a Kirkwood (St. Louis suburb) Missouri brewpub. They have a large beer selection that is always changing and along with a nice restaurant. I've always enjoyed their food and beer selection even if the place is a little to crowded.
The IPA was server in a 8oz plastic cup which might had affected the tasting. With only a slight hop smell from an IPA I start by blaming the plastic cup. The color was a great gold but with too little head. When drinking the beer the carbonation seemed to show up on the tongue in an unpleasing tingling, almost burning feeling. The IPA initially tasted like hops, but the flavor didn't stay and all I noticed was the bad mouth feel. There was a very bad taste left on the tongue from this beer. I know an IPA can get a thick sticky feel but this beer was too sticky.
I am shocked by how much I did not like this beer. It was not a good IPA (one of my favorites), and it had a really bad after taste and mouth feel. I can't necessarily attribute the bad taste to bacteria or skunking so I guess it could be the jockey box (a cooler with a keg inside) that caused the bad taste. I think I will make a second trip to Alandale's for a second sample of the IPA and another beer for the blog. I will post the results of my second tasting.
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