Beer Review: Sly Fox Odyssey Imperial IPA

Another treat from PA.

I bought a bottle of Sly Fox Brewing Company's Odyssey Imperial IPA a few weeks back with I was up in the Philly area. Remember that epic beer weekend? Here's the run down if you missed it. At about $6 for a 22 oz bottle the price was right. I enjoy the style and we don't get this back home. Here we go.

Poured in to a Dogfish Head signature glass. Appears hazy light copper with a thin and firm fine bubbled white head, small dotted lacing and minimal carbonation streams. The head thins out and dissipates a bit, but stays through the end of the tasting. Odyssey smells of spicy hops, almost floral and perfumy. There is some malt sweetness present in the nose as well.

Upon the first sips I'm greeted with huge spicy and bitter hop flavors. Tastes kind of like what I imagine candied grapefruit would taste like. The malt sweet and richness is less present in the flavor profile than in the aroma. It finishes with subtle hop bitterness with an aftertaste that doesn't stick around for more than a few seconds.

This tastes and feels like an above average double IPA. It's not a total hop or booze bomb, which is nice. At 8.4% ABV I was expecting this to taste a tad on the boozy side. But Sly Fox did a decent job of balancing out the flavors in this beer, though it leans a bit more towards the hoppy side as expected. I'd get this again in a few years, but it's nothing I'd go crazy to find.

A Not-So-Comprehensive List of Craft Cans

This is a follow up post to this one on Craft Cans. I'd like to keep a running list going of craft cans that can be found. Not necessarily specific to one area. Ideally this will be all-inclusive, but I'm sure I'll leave some out at first. Please share something if I've left one out that you know of. I've not had all of these, so input and tasting notes are welcome.

21st Amendment Brewery San Francisco, CA
21st Amendment IPA American India Pale Ale7%
Back In Black American Black Ale 6.8%
Bitter American American Pale Ale 4.4%
Fireside Chat Winter Warmer 7.9%
Hell Or High Watermelon Wheat Beer Wheat Ale 4.9%
Monk's Blood Belgian Strong Dark Ale 8.3%

Caldera Ashland, OR
Ashland Amber  American Amber/Red Ale - 5.4%
Caldera IPA American India Pale Ale - 6.1%
Caldera Pale Ale American Pale Ale 5.5%
Dry Hop Red American Amber/Red Ale - 5.7%

Cisco Brewers Inc Nantucket, MA

Whale's Tale Pale Ale English Pale Ale 5.6%

The Brewer's Art Baltimore, MD, brewed and canned at Sly Fox in Royersford, PA
Brewer's Art Resurrection Belgian Dubbel 7%

Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Lager American Amber/Red Lager 5.2%

Butternuts Beer & Ale Garrattsville, NY
Heinnieweisse Weissebier Hefeweizen 4.9%
Moo Thunder Stout Milk Stout 4.9%
Porkslap Pale Ale American Pale Ale 4.3%
Snapperhead IPA American India Pale Ale 6.8%

Oskar Blues Grill & Brewery Lyons, CO
Dale's Pale Ale American Pale Ale 6.5%
G'Knight Imperial Red Ale (formerly "Gordon") American Red 8.7% 
GUBNA Imperial IPA American Imperial India Pale Ale 10%
Mama's Little Yella Pils Czech Pilsener 5.3%
Old Chub - Scottish Style Ale Scotch Ale 8%
One Hit Wonder American Imperial India Pale Ale 9%
Ten FIDY Russian Imperial Stout 10.5%


Saranac (by The Matt Brewing Company) Utica, NY
Saranac Pale Ale English Pale Ale 5.5%

Sly Fox in Royersford, PA
Thanks to Jeff P. for these. I haven't seen them in my area.
Dunkel Lager Munich Dunkel Lage 5.3%
Oktoberfest Märzen 5.8%
Phoenix Pale American Pale Ale 5.1%

Pikeland Pils German Pilsener 4.9%

Route 113 India Pale Ale American India Pale Ale 7%
Royal Weisse Hefeweizen 5.6%