By Greg B.  I received a very generous gift of this beer by some folks who had just sampled my homebrews.  There are some Brewdog beers you can find in Baltimore, but they are not many and the style is usually the same.  This is the same brewery that recently made an ‘original’ India Pale Ale, by brewing a beer, setting it into large barrels, then paying a fisherman to keep it on his boat for several weeks while out on the ocean fishing.  Clearly, they’re an innovative brewery, and that’s the kind of adventurous spirit you just don’t usually get in Europe but tends to be a more American attitude.  Instantly, my interest in their work is piqued.  So how’s this beer? 

The beer pours a deep orangey gold color, with a very creamy, khaki colored head that maintains itself (looks like a hand pump, but from a bottle) and leaves an intense, extremely fine and covering lace.  The beer is more translucent than clear, and certainly looks hearty!  On the nose, you can get pine, citrus and pineapple, but a less sweet, more tart pineapple. The beer tastes of bitter orange peel, with a hint of pineapple with a nice creamy malt backbone and some bitters present, which then coming forward at the end.This is  a very nice IPA, something between US style and English style, but combining the assets of both with the weaknesses of neither.  3.8/5, 7.1& abv.