Juice Caboose

Sold in a 473mL can with a flowery, Summer of Love motif, Juice Caboose comes from St. Thomas, Ontario’s Railway City Brewing Co. A juicy IPA, the Caboose is a 6.8% brew built using Citra, El Dorado, and Vic Secret hops. It’s a slightly hazy, dull gold product topped with a fluffy white head.

The Caboose packs an aroma that swirls floral and pineapple notes. For flavour, juicy fruit notes rule the roost, with piña and passion fruit leading the way. At just 48 IBUs, bitterness isn’t all that prominent, though it’s certainly still present. 

Among the ranks of juicy IPAs that are flooding the market this year in Ontario, Juice Caboose fares pretty well. Not the best, perhaps, but a fair effort from a brewery that’s long been on my list of places in this province to check out. I’d actually have liked a bit more bitterness—not necessarily 

Rating: 7.5 out of 10.