Lake Monster Empty Rowboat IPA

Lake Monster Brewing is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their beers are currently contract brewed (with hands on involvement by their own brewer) at the Sand Creek Brewing Company in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. They hope to open a brewery at some future point in the Twin Cities.

The beer pours copper colored and clear. There is a relatively short head of white to off-white foam. The aroma is orange, pine, a touch of dankness over caramelly malt. The taste follows the aromas, sweet and fruity, bit of pine, with a bitter grassy and grapefruit finish. It is medium bodied, smooth, moderately carbonated. This is a really solid IPA, I would repeat.