Island Gurl (Departed Soles)
Brewery : Departed Soles Beer : Island Gurl Style : IPA / India Pale Ale / Session Ale / Session IPA / India Session Ale / SIPA Variance : Brewed with Lactose and Aged on Coconut
9 / 10
Dayyyyyum guurrrllll! I feel like just looking at the label to this beer makes me wish I was on a lounge chair right next to Lady Liberty’s hot ass on some kind of tropical island with all of Shaggy’s singles on repeat with this brew served endlessly in a coconut with a little umbrella in it. Yeah, I like the sound of that. This is officially the best beer I’ve had from Departed Soles and even though it doesn’t really live up to the whole “milkshake IPA” like other similar styles do, I’d still put it pretty fucking high on my list of best session IPAs out there. A nice mix of oniony and citrusy hops start things off with a huge bitterness before some more citrus and a light tropical flavor mix in all while leading up to a nice almost spicy hop flavor with a light sweetness to close. I love that a beer this good was made in my home state because there’s very little these days that give me as much Jersey pride as knowing that fantastic brews like this are coming out of fantastic local breweries and since Bon Jovi really isn’t touring too much anymore, that’ll just have to do. I still haven’t gotten the chance to head up to Jersey City and visit these guys yet but after taking my first few sips of this I now know that that is going to have to be a trip that is taken ASAP. If you are a rookie to the IPA or session IPA world, take off your shorts and sit bare assed on the beach because you deserve to be picking sand out of your genitalian crevices because you’re definitely not ready for this bad boy. As for you professionals, throw on bikini or speedo and hit the waves because you should be letting your tongue surf on this gnarly brew as of yesterday. Yup!
Written by: Steve B.

















