Boulevard Heavy Lifting IPA

This 6.2% ABV India Pale Ale is from Boulevard Brewing of Kansas City, Missouri. I guess they have outstripped their capacity, as this one notes it was contract brewed at Third Street Brewhouse in Cold Springs, Minnesota. (Boulevard later tweeted me and let me know that they have the capacity, they just don't have a canning line yet; so it is their canned beers coming out of Cold Springs for now until they get their own canning line.)

The beer pours orange and golden in color, a bit hazy. There is a tall head of thick, white, foam. The aroma is bright, zesty, citrus, apricot, and bread dough. The taste follows the aromas, hits the same notes, and adds in some pine. The beer is bright, zesty, fruity, ripe, with a quite bitter finish. It drinks smoothly easy with a tingling carbonation. This is a nice IPA.