On a rainy afternoon, doing a little stubborn grilling, I selected a 355mL can of Odyssey Double Dry Hopped IPA to be my backyard companion—its label features an intrepid space raccoon, which felt appropriate to the task. Odyssey, from Toronto’s Bandit Brewery, is a 6.5% effort. A hazy IPA, it had a golden orange hue and poured with a helmet of sudsy off white head. According to the Bandit website, this beer owes its flavour profile to double dry-hopping with Galaxy hops.
Citrus
and tropical notes jumped out to my nose, and the flavour continued
down that same path, with OJ and passion fruit elements in the vanguard
and a modestly floral bitterness bringing up the rear.
I
thought Odyssey was an agreeable but not overly memorable entry in the
crowded hazy DDH IPA category. It’s clearly well made and undoubtedly
enjoyable, but if you asked me about this beer in six months, I’d have
to pull up this review. It really is quite a good beer, made by a
brewery that knows what’s up—it just didn’t offer anything unique.
Rating: 7.5 out of 10.
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