On Tap is a regular column featuring our recommendations on the most unique new draft beer offerings from local pubs.
Our Recommendation: Green Flash Brewing Co.’s West Coast IPA
Where: Appetites on Main, Main Street, Exton, PA
When I stopped by Appetites on Main to see what new unique beers they had on tap, bar manager Mike Troupe suggested I hang out at the bar for a few moments. Moments later, he appeared at the tap, screwed in a Green Flash pour handle and poured me a glass of their West Coast IPA.
As he took the seat next to me, Mike described this as one of his favorite IPA’s. “This is a perfect combination of hops and citrus, almost like grapefruit.”
I could taste the citrus just as he said this. It’s a medium bodied beer, pungent and hoppy and full flavored.
The West Coast IPA comes in at 7.3% alcohol content. Mike explained, “it’s a bit more than the typical IPA. A lot of people try to steer clear of the heavy beers. This goes down smooth.”
Green Flash just came to the East Coast about two years ago (brewery is based in San Diego, CA). The West Coast IPA won the National IPA Challenge in 2008. This is the first time Appetites on Main has tapped this West Coast IPA. Mike expects the keg to last a week to ten days.
Mike informed me that in July Appetites on Main added four new taps so they can carry and rotate through a bigger selection of craft beers. Their chalkboard showed a nice assortment happening right now, and Mike is thrilled to have be able to try more unique beers at Appetites on Main.
Previous On Tap columns featured the following: Flying Dog’s Raging Bitch, click here; Wells & Young’s Wells Bombardier, click here; Fuller’s ESB, click here; Earth Bread + Brewery’s Black Irish Stout, click here; Sierra Nevada’s A Lighter Shade of Pale, click here; Deschutes Brewery’s Mirror Pond Ale, click here; Sierra Nevada’s Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale, click here.
