The number of canned craft beers from the state of Colorado is over 60 and continues to grow! This is Eddyline's first foray into canning and one of a handful of 16 oz. Colorado cans currently available. Flip the can around and you've got a sweet map of great places to go mountain biking - something that might not work as well on a bottle! Cheers!

From the Eddyline site:

"Our moto here at the Eddyline is “Go Big”. We strive to follow that whether were having fun outside, or hard at work inside. By following that moto, and from getting lots of feedback from you, our beloved beer drinking consumer, we crafted this IPA.  Meant to be a serene balance of malt and hops, it still has hop flavor and aroma, without all the enamel destroying bitterness.  If you’ve had a day of going big, and want a beer that can back that adrenaline filled day up, you’ve found it in our Crank Yanker IPA."

Here we go...

Pour - dark amber color with a soft appearance and a loose rather foamy head that clings tightly to the glass. Darker than some other IPAs but certainly just as appealing.

Aroma - orange, caramel, honey, brown sugar, some light floral hop notes. Faint hints of pine and fresh cut grass. The aroma comes and goes. I'd love to get a lot more of that fresh hop smell and as this warms a bit it does come out but you may need to be patient.

Taste - oranges and lemons with some flavors that come aross as apricot and peaches. Plenty of malty, caramel flavors without any sort of hop astringency. Not a super hoppy or bitter IPA with a lot more going on with the malt side of things. Perhaps the honey that this is brewed with plays a part in all of this?

Overall - an IPA that may come across as more on the malty side than being overly bitter and super hoppy. Not a bad brew by any means but it can come across more like a strong amber ale with a solid hop profile. Some floral and citrus flavors are there and as it warms there is a bit of spiciness from the hops. We're definitely looking forward to some other cans from Eddyline - we've heard rumors of something very unique to be canned in the near future. Fingers are crossed!

Note - We were sort of surprised to see that this beer is brewed with honey. Although you may notice that on a lot of beer labels despite the beer not being meant to take on any of that honey flavor (another example of this is Bell's famous Hopslam). Honey adds some character to the beer while also providing some fermentable sugars for the yeasties to devour and make more alcohol.