Wicked Weed Brewing
Pernicious India Pale Ale
American IPA
North Carolina
7.3%
11.2oz, 4-Pack
$9.25
Crests over two fingers of bone white foam of above average density, more like a couple of valleys than a truly dimpled surface, the lacing is wispy, however, there's a lot of it around the glass sides. The liquid is more gauzy than cloudy, an extremely fine silt mixed throughout, very few visible bubbles. The nose has uncommon directness and force, not crude but it will have its say, laying on sour bread crusts, kosher salt, pine tar, fresh and dank herbal matter, some soapiness with sufficient tart white grapefruit to overshadow the pineapple, papaya, star fruit scents, sinewy extension in the nostrils. Medium-bodied, bitter attack with full bore leafiness and pepper, burnt bread notes. Noticeably oily mouth texture, slows down forward movement. Extracts all the bitterness possible from the white grapefruit and marshals the pine, coal tar, charcoal and peppercorn in support. The general dryness accentuated by the pinpoint prickle of the carbonation. The earthy funk seems reluctant to make sufficient room for the nectarine, pineapple, peach, papaya fruit, which perhaps as a result is devoid of tropical lushness. There's a considerate sternness to it, like a dominatrix trying to make a first timer into a steady customer.
4 out of 5