Heartland I.P.A.
12/3/04 I'm in New York with my friend Mary, at the Heartland Chophouse brewpub. Their website is hard to navigate effectively, so although I am fairly certain I drank their I.P.A. I can find no record of it.
The supposed I.P.A. (it was an I.P.A., for sure, I just like to say that "supposed"), which I got on tap is fairly coppery in color. It didn't have much nose, mostly a hop note. It was rather crisp in the mouth, with a slight coppery tang in the finish. The mouthfeel is a little thin, even for a pale ale. The finish is slightly bitter and lingers a little overlong, but is nothing an accustomed I.P.A. drinker should be surprised at.
This beer is decent. I am not blown away, neither am I disgusted. It is simply a workmanlike I.P.A., slightly above average.
I did get a taste of Mary's oatmeal stout, which was rather nice, but not enough to review it. It was good enough to convince Mary that she didn't dislike beer, as she previously had thought, although I must say I tasted a lot of their beer to find one that I knew would change her mind. That is always a great trick at a pub, btw, to taste several beers before you choose. You get more beer that way, and you get to taste a lot. But it does necessitate tipping much better, otherwise you piss off your server, which is bad. Don't do that, especially if you intend to get mixed drinks later and don't want visene in them.
WDTB? I don't know, I just got to this city.
WSDTB? Hop heads. This is not an exceptional beer.
Rating: 7.8/10
The supposed I.P.A. (it was an I.P.A., for sure, I just like to say that "supposed"), which I got on tap is fairly coppery in color. It didn't have much nose, mostly a hop note. It was rather crisp in the mouth, with a slight coppery tang in the finish. The mouthfeel is a little thin, even for a pale ale. The finish is slightly bitter and lingers a little overlong, but is nothing an accustomed I.P.A. drinker should be surprised at.
This beer is decent. I am not blown away, neither am I disgusted. It is simply a workmanlike I.P.A., slightly above average.
I did get a taste of Mary's oatmeal stout, which was rather nice, but not enough to review it. It was good enough to convince Mary that she didn't dislike beer, as she previously had thought, although I must say I tasted a lot of their beer to find one that I knew would change her mind. That is always a great trick at a pub, btw, to taste several beers before you choose. You get more beer that way, and you get to taste a lot. But it does necessitate tipping much better, otherwise you piss off your server, which is bad. Don't do that, especially if you intend to get mixed drinks later and don't want visene in them.
WDTB? I don't know, I just got to this city.
WSDTB? Hop heads. This is not an exceptional beer.
Rating: 7.8/10
1 Comments:
Kenji:
You are right about Heartland. Their beers are really so-so. However their apricot summer ale is actually pretty good. The apricot note are quite substle and not overpowering.
By the way, Heartland no longer brew their own beer on premise. They contract it to Greenpoint Beer Work in Brooklyn. The master brewer there used to work for Heartland. Greenpoint is also the contract brewer of Rheingold. It is not Kelly Taylor bragging moment to brew such horrible beer but he's a mercenary.
By AzianBrewer, at 3/04/2005 8:21 AM
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