HOPPERCAR APA ~ JUNCTION CRAFT BREWING

Hoppercar American Pale Ale is actually Junction Conductors Ale that has been dry hopped. Sampled from a tin, the beer poured a clear deep coppery orange with an off white soapy head. The head stuck around before leaving good lacing around the glass. Aroma had come caramel, bready hops, yeast, subtle fruitiness and a variety of hops – pine, grass, floral, citrus. Nicely balanced in taste with caramel malts, soft fruit, biscuit grains, subtle earthiness and an assertive bitter finish. Junction Craft brewing has used five different malts in the brew (from Canada, Germany, France, and England) and also used five different hops (German, Czech and American west Coast). Junction Craft has also come up with a system they call the “hopback” that infuses flavour into the brew between the kettle and the fermenter. Cascade and German Tetnanger are used in the hopback process. The body was medium-plus and the carbonation was on into the moderate soft range. This needs to be a little assertive in the bitterness department to make this sessionable for me, but worth a try.
5.3 % from Toronto, Ontario