Ryan:<\/strong> I picked up this straggler at Discount Liquor in Milwaukee.\u00a0 I could spend hours telling you about how great Discount is and how you should go hours out of your way to stop there.\u00a0 But that will be a separate post.\u00a0 For now, lets just say it’s one of the top 10 beer stores in the Midwest.\u00a0 Hands down.<\/p>\nI call this beer a straggler because it was on the only bottle in its row of singles and was stuffed in the back.\u00a0 It needed a good home and I had never had an Ale Asylum beer so it seemed to be a good match.<\/p>\n
Poured in to a barley wine glass, Ballistic is a murky copper in color.\u00a0 No head to speak of, even on a slightly ballistic, er, aggressive pour.\u00a0 The nose is citrus hops; expected and not overwhelming.\u00a0 Those same citrus hops are the first thing you notice when sampling this beer.\u00a0 Sips two and three reveal some tangerine and apricot.\u00a0 Some malts slip in to balance things out a bit.\u00a0 The hops and nectar flavors flash in and flash out.\u00a0 There is not much of a bitter finish to this beer or, really, a finish at all.<\/p>\n
I think expected and not overwhelming may be the best way to describe this beer overall.\u00a0 This is a good American IPA but there isn’t much ballistic about it.<\/p>\n
One thing to factor in to this review is the amount of time this beer had sat around.\u00a0 A friend who absolutely loves this beer said he had it on tap when it was first released and it was fantastic, so he picked up a 6 pack.\u00a0 He said the first bottle he cracked open was spot in with the draft version but the subsequent bottles drank over a couple week span started to fade.\u00a0 There’s a good chance this bottle had been hanging around for two months or so which could explain the muted flavors.\u00a0 Seems like this is best, and therefore should be drank, fresh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ale Asylum Ballistic IPA “is a fully loaded American-style IPA…[with] explosive citrus aromas and aggressive bitterness with a smooth finish.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[279],"yoast_head":"\n
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