Cut & Run

Rainhard Brewing in Toronto does up a swell double IPA brewed with El Dorado and Galaxy hops that they call Cut & Run. It’s an 8% ale sold in 355mL cans. The beer is a hazy orange-gold number and it pours with a sudsy white foam topper.

Mango is the chief aromatic note and it’s quite lovely. The flavour is quite sweet, with tropical fruit and a touch of citrus. Not a lot of bitterness, here, and the relatively punchy booze content is deviously well cloaked.

I’d have liked this beer to be a bit more assertively bitter, but the mango element was well played and the booze bit was subtle. Too sweet, perhaps, but not by much.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10.