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Inevitably, I need to go over the other IPAs of this line that I have tried. The 60 minute IPA was very drinkable, and I thought it was great. The 75 minute IPA was just slightly better. The 90 minute IPA managed to make it to the absolute top of the great range, and it bordered on excellent. The 120 minute IPA seemed to demonstrate the law of diminishing returns, as I found it to be as good as the 90 minute, but it wasn't better. This is, I think, undermined by the fact that it costs significantly more than the 90 minute. If the returns go the opposite direction, then the 30 minutes should still be a great beer, but it will likely not match the heights of its more expensive siblings.
It's got a slight haze to it, and the light gold color is pleasing to the eye. The head goes down fairly quickly, and it doesn't look like it's going to leave any lacing. The aroma is pine over citrus fruits, and it smells pretty good. The problem with these kinds of low calorie beers is that they tend to inflate the hops, and the result is a very biting beer that doesn't have much flavor. Let's see if these guys did it up right.
First sip is a decent beer. Mind you, it has a familiar light beer formula where the bitterness bites right at the beginning, and more of a fruity smoothness hits at the back end. The result is certainly not something I would turn my nose up at where my options limited to a supply of domestic beers from very large breweries. But that's only if I'm going to be limited in my choices and sipping. I have not looked it up, but if I sip on a 4% ABV beer for an hour, I suspect I and almost anyone else would be well under the legal limit. Not that I condone drinking and driving.
Tip-in is excessively gentle with mild bitterness, slight pine, and enough peach and tangerine to give at least some flavor. If someone were to refer to the middle of the gulp as crushable, I wouldn't disagree with them, as it has virtually no flavor or reason to impede such vibrant imbibing. The finish is light citrus added on top of some pine with some bitterness before it all kind of goes away in a mist.
Bottom Line: The worst of the minute men, and not really that great.
2.0/5
