Capital Brewery Mutiny IPA

Brewed By: Capital Brewery in Middleton, Wisconsin

Purchased: 12oz bottle bought stolen from a community fridge at a poker game in Urbana, IL; 2013 

Style/ABV: India Pale Ale, 6.2%

Reported IBUs: 70

Hey another night, another twofer. Killing those singles. About Capital Brewery: 

Capital Brewery is a brewery based out of Middleton, Wisconsin, founded in 1984 by Ed Janus, along with the help of Anthony Frey. They opened up their brewery in 1986, and celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2011. The brewery got started making German-style beer, and even used brewing kettles from Germany. Since then, the brewery continues to brew traditional German-style beers, along with some more modern twists. For more info, check out their history page here. 

The Mutiny IPA is a year-round release, and clocks in at 6.2% and packs 70 IBUs. This amber beer is described as having a citrus aroma, packing a punch, and remaining drinkable. 

Capital Brewery Mutiny IPA

The beer pours into a hazy amber/bronze body, with some gold/yellow tones. I kicked up three fingers of off-white head. The head is bready and sticky, and it's sustaining nicely. In brighter light the beer is a dark golden color; transparent; with some lazy mid-sized carb bubbles. There is some lacing and the usual. 

The aroma features faint pine, mild resin, some orange, resinous orange...as the head drops off and I'm able to stick my nose in this, I'm getting some sweeter notes with some peach, grass, melon, and some bready caramel/malt.

This is actually pretty solid stuff, on par with last night's Dark Horse Crooked Tree IPA. This beer is more to my liking, with some sweeter bready notes and some sweet caramel. I'm getting big grass, light orange, bitter pine, shades of floral/melon, and nice sweetness to offset the supposed and quoted 70 IBUs. 

I know this beer isn't attached to some famous West Coast brewery, but this is a really good IPA readily available in my area. The palate depth is great, and the mouthfeel is perfectly on point with tons of supportive carbonation, a sustaining head, and medium-light drinkability. This goes down great at 6.2%. The hops and bitterness are held in check by lovely sweetness, and the whole thing is refined and yeah. Sweet malts/citrus up front; more sweet malts, grass, citrus, lemon in the middle; that rolls into some pine bitterness, and is offset with a bready/biscuit finish. 

Rating: Above-Average (3.5/5.0 Untappd)

This is a Decent Above-Average, and I would definitely buy this again. Sure...I'm giving it the same score as the Crooked Tree IPA, but this one is a notch more to my preference with the nice malt sweetness. I don't know how much this costs because I-O-U-ed this bottle, but I assume this beer comes in 6-packs and sells for cheap. Great stuff here, and I would pair this beer with lighter spiced foods, wings, burgers, pizza, Mexican, etc. 

Random Thought: And now to get in the shit...