Episode Notes

Episode 81: Blaker Brewing’s Evergreen Spaces Hazy IPA

It’s the Two Minute Beer Review!

I’m Andrew Burkum and it’s that time again where we take on that massive craft brew aisle to find the hidden treasures waiting for us there.

This week we’re taking a look at Evergreen Spaces Hazy IPA by Blaker Brewing in Ceres, CA. Is this one worthy of the great outdoors? Let’s find out!

Evergreen Spaces is a milky straw yellow with a nice, creamy head. The scent is a lot of pine up front as you would expect based on the name with a little bit of fruit in the background.

But what about the taste? Evergreen spaces actually hits up front with a round citrus punch. But this resolves into a fabulous pine favor that sits back in the back of the mouth and under the bottom of the tongue. It’s got a nice all-over bitterness that really rounds out the fruitier aspects of the beer and keeps that evergreen in perspective. It’s full and creamy in the mouth and has a very smooth character on the tongue, which helps it go down nice and easy.

This beer is a very interesting marriage of a traditional “old school” pine-heavy IPA and one of the more modern hazy style IPAs. It succeeds in hitting both ends of the flavor palate and I think that whether you are more attracted to one end of that spectrum or the other you will still find something to love here. It’s got a 6.8% in the ABV category, which keeps it nice and drinkable in quantity as well. If you’re looking for something fun and just a little different from all the other IPAs that line those shelves, this is definitely one to try out!

Have you had a chance to try Evergreen Spaces? What did you think? You can let me know by emailing me at [email protected] (using the number 2), tweeting me @2minutebeer or responding on Facebook where you’ll find the live video of this episode. I want to hear what you have to say--and make sure to share the episode so others can weigh in as well! Oh and while you’re at it, for my rating on this and countless other beers—some of which we haven’t even featured on the show yet, be sure to follow me on Untappd, just search for me by name, that’s Andrew Burkum spelled BURKUM and send me a friend request!

That’s all for this week, but I hope you’ll join me next week as I take a look at Baltic Porter from East Brother Beer Company. Will this one take us to new depths of darkness? We’ll find out next week.
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