Brooklyn East India Pale Ale

Had heard these guys are pretty well regarded, though I'm not sure what 'East India' does differently?

Apparently, East India is the land of 'surprisingly little hop bitterness but pretty reasonable beer nevertheless' (I'll update wikipedia later). The beer has a malty caramel nose more in line with an APA than an IPA, and backs it up with similar taste. It's headless but fizzy.. just slightly too aggressively carbonated for mine but it's in keeping with the candy nature of the taste. Was surprised when I found it was 6.8% actually, tastes far more docile than that without the bittering presence of the hops.

So, yes. A fine beer and look forward to trying more from Brooklyn. 7.0