Birrificio B.O.A. Bia IPA

This Italian beer recently made its way onto the LCBO store shelves, but given it was bottled back in November and Jeff just picked it up, he was a tad concerned about freshness, so he only bought one.

The website for B.O.A. says (according to Google Translate) that the beer is a union of Czech-German and American style IPAs.

Jeff noted the beer poured a nice bright orange colour, "although it looks muted next to the eye-popping label on the bottle."

He smelled citrus zest and honey, and the taste had both citrus hops (Cascade and Amarillo) and herbal notes (Saaz).

"The spicy herbal taste is a nice change. Plus there's the honey and some bread. I was really surprised by this beer," he said. "If it's this nice after five months, I can only guess at how good it would be fresh."

Maybe we need to take a trip to Rome, honey!