Brewery: Founders Brewing

Name: All Day IPA (Session Ale)

Style: American IPA

Origin: Michigan

Bottle: 19.2 oz can

ABV: 4.7%

Appearance: a lovely, deep cider-like gold with champagneesque bubbles and a fluffy layer on top that looks like some old fashioned vision of dreamland.

Pours: a disturbing shade of dark yellow that would give a urologist night terrors.

Smell: the unmistakable and distinctly piney smell of the hops in an IPA.

Taste: At first, pine, wild greenery, mountain vistas, clear running streams, and John Denver. However at the end it starts to go a bit atonal, a bit flat and medicinal.

Mouthfeel: lively, vibrant, possibly even crisp. Wouldn’t exactly call it sharp though. Later on it loses most of that liveliness and replaces it with a sense of laurel-resting nostalgia of half a can ago.

Rating: 6.8. Starts out as a 7.8 but loses something as time goes on. I’d say this works best at a 12 oz size. Any more and it goes from “Yeahh!!” to “Yeah yeah yeah.”