Ithica Flower Power

Hello All,

Today a group of my GE buddies happy houred at a local place near our new office buildings in West Chester, Ohio. The place is called The Dinglehouse, and is a scotish brew pub. I really like this place. On the upside, all of the women wait staff wear kilts. On the downside, all of the male wait staff wear kilts too. They have a good selection of draft beers, around 20 or so, mostly craft brews and the classics from Great Britain.

My second beer of the evening was an Ithica Flower Power. The Ithica Beer Company is out of Ithica New York, and up to this point I haven't had much exposure to their beers. The Flower Power, as you have probably guessed, is hop heavy. Its classified as an American IPA and it carries a heafty punch at 7.5% alcohol.

The beer was brought out in a 20 ounce imperial pint glass. The head was big and white and contrasted significantly with the darker, caramel color of the beer. Despite being outside (yes, it was 66F and sunny on this March 10th Ohio day), and having a slightly congested nose, I could smell the hoppiness of this beer from over a foot away. I took a sip, and as expected, was pleased. If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm a huge fan of IPAs and haven't found a bad one yet. I'm still trying to educate myself on hop varieties and their origins, but if I had to guess, these would be Cascadian hops. I didn't pick up many citrus notes from this beer, rather I almost tasted metallic notes, but maybe that was just the heavy % alcohol. Nonetheless, overall I was quite pleased and give this beer a 9.0. My friend Vidhu, who also had this beer at this happy hour, gave the beer a 8.82. Pictured in the photo are two other beer-loving friends, Jason and Trevor.

As always, thanks for reading, and have a great rest of your week! -Zack