Pipeline Brewing Co

Citra Mosaic Daydream (5.3% ABV, can)
Bought this at Pipeline’s inaugural tap evening at its railway yard base, just outside St Agnes. Billed as a double-dry-hopped IPA, it’s a gorgeous exemplar of the way the brewery goes about its business. Nicely balanced with biscut malt and offering a great mouthfeel and smoothness, thanks to oats and wheat. But it’s as a showcase for those two rocks star hops, Citra and Mosaic, that it really shines. The aroma is quite resinous, with notes of pine and stone fruit. The palate focuses on those peaches and apricots, with lemon and graepfruit then joining the party. Just joyous.
Buy: I got mine from the brewery!
(16st April, 2021)

Half Life (6.5% ABV, can)
My first beer from this modern craft brewery in St Agnes, Cornwall, and it’s a cracker. Deep golden with a white head, it smells a little resinour, but mostly fruity — mango, kiwi and a hint of peach. There’s a real fruit bowl on the palate, juicy grapefruit, mango, kiwi, and a delightful zesty finish that leads to some dryness. Oats add to a smooth mouthfeel. Great to know there’s another great brewer on the Cornish scene.
Buy: I got mine from the Red Elephant Beer Cellar, Truro. It’s also available locally from St Agnes’ Schooners and Cornish Pizza Co, and the Vessel bottle shop in Plymouth.
(21st April, 2020)

Imagine There’s No Moon (8.3% ABV)
Jet black, this big imperial stout has coffee and treacle on the aroma. Big chocolate and roast malt flavours on the palate, with some vanilla and black cherry on the edges. Oats in the mix makes for a smooth drinking experience. Another Pipeline cracker! Enjoyed this one at the Pilchard Press Alehouse in St Ives.
(5th January, 2022)

Mosaic Mahout (4.7% ABV, can)
A collaboration with the Red Elephant Beer Cellar, in Truro, to mark the shop’s new era is a bigger, city centre location. Hazy straw with a big, thick, foaming white head, it’s single hopped with Mosaic, so no surprise that the aroma is stone fruit and mango. As juice bombs go, this one is quite subtle, although the fruit is pretty pronounced. There’s light biscuit malt balance and a lovely smoothness, thanks to oats in the malt bill. I reckon this would be a good introduction for someone taking their first steps into the world of hazy US-style session IPAs, Refreshingly crisp, not too dank, and pretty moreish.
Buy: I got mine from the Red Elephant Beer Cellar, Truro.
(30th October, 2020)

New York Dreams (4.8% ABV, can)
There’s a burst of zesty citrus as soon as the can pops open, an aroma of lemon and lime with, upon closer inhalation, a little orange, too. It’s smooth and juicy on the palate, not soupy at all, as some beers in this style can be, and with no overpowering flavours. Subtlety and balance all the way. All the zesty citrus flavours: lemon, lime, grapefruit, orange, plus a little peach. At 4.8% ABV, it’s not crazily strong, but nicely sessionable, with a real zing of moreish bitterness on the finish. A little beauty.
Buy: I got mine from Johns off-licence, in St Ives.
(17th January, 2021)

Stargazing at Midnight (8% ABV, can)
Here’s something for the hardcore US IPA aficionadoes! Hazy amber, it has a white head that stays fairly well. The aroma is quite tropical and very fresh — orange, lime, papaya vying for attention. On the palate it’s smooth and juicy, loads of fruit flavour, orange mainly. Pine bursts through, with lime and papaya, against biscuit malt. Do give it a try.
Buy it: I got mine direct from the brewery during one of its Friday evening taproom sessions.