2nd Shift Brewing Art of Neurosis

Art of Neurosis

 

2nd Shift Brewing in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸

IPA Regular
Score
6.99
ABV: 7.6% IBU: 65 Ticks: 19
Art of Neurosis is literally the art of Steve’s neurosis. On of the staples at the brewery, AON was the first big batch that 2nd Shift ever produced and distributed. It actually took brewmaster Steve Crider 47 times to brew this beer before he considered it ready for the main stage.

AON is the first beer I made at the brewery. It is a hop sandwich brewed with Simoce & Columbus Hops, which are the greatest things in the world besides a good smack in the face.
 

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at MBCC Yellow Session. Pours a hazy brown with small off white head. The aroma is citrus, earth, pine. Slick body, pine, citrus, earthy malt, bitter finish, good.

Tried from Draft on 21 Dec 2020 at 00:13


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5

The aromas are onion, oxidized hops, wet grain and pale malt. Flavors are somewhat similar to nose, no fresh hops mildly bittersweet with good carbonation. from the score I thought it was going to be really good but it's a real disappointment.

Tried on 19 Aug 2020 at 03:09


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

16 fl.oz can. A slightly hazy amber beer with a off-white head. Aroma of cinnamon, strong resinous hops, spruce, reddish malt. Taste of dry resinous bitter hops, some cinnamon and pumpkin spices, caramel, redddish malt, some grapefruits, long bitter finish.

Tried from Can on 29 Mar 2020 at 21:06


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

West Coast style IPA by this craft brewery in St. Louis, Missouri, apparently their first ever brew, hopped with Simcoe and Columbus. Can of half a year old, but for a West Coast IPA this shouldn't be too dramatic. Creamy, mousy, eggshell-white, fairly thick but slowly dissipating head, leaving an intricate pattern of flat islands and a steady ring over an initially very lightly hazy, warm 'metallic' amber-hued orange blonde beer with lively visible sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma of grapefruit, dried orange peel, old garlic (Simcoe!), toasted onion, barbecue spices, pine resin, dry biscuit, cheese crackers, tamarillo, fried tomato peel, dry old marijuana, pink peppercorns, wormwood. Clean onset, low fruity hints of dried apricot, hard green melon and tamarillo, minerally but refined carbonation, slick oily body; bit resinous, smooth biscuity and cracker-like 'dryish' maltiness, mildly nutty, evolving into a piney, oily hop bitter finish, very grapefruit peel-, cedar oil- and eventually quinine-like, long lasting bitterness with a peppery dryness to it, yet still remaining a bit juicy as well. I was fearing for another New England fruity IPA but I am glad that what I got here, is a very classically styled West Coast IPA indeed, with all that lovely oily bitterness, grapefruitiness and piney aspects I remember from the many American IPAs I had five to ten years ago before that juicy IPA fad came along. It's good to look back every now and then, especially when this type of 'old school IPA' is as skilfully executed as is the case here. Love it - and that cartoonish artwork on the label too...

Tried from Can on 23 Jul 2019 at 21:14


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Hazy orange color with some UFO's in it. Full sized off-white head. Aroma and flavor is malts, resinous hops, hops, hoppy bitter, bitter. Medium body and carbonation. 9-3-8-4-16.

Tried on 14 Jul 2019 at 18:17


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

16 fl.oz can. Orangey amber gold colour, white foamy head leaving lacing and aroma of malt, fruity spicy hop. Taste is malty, some biscuit, caramel, toffee, with fruity, citrus, woody pine and spicy hop bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry tangy bitter finish. Quite drinkable

Tried from Can on 22 Jun 2019 at 21:49


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can 473ml (Beergium, canned 01/2019)
Amber colour, small beige head. Light bready and citrus nose. Medium-bodied. Sweetish tropical fruits, caramalt and resiny hops. Ok malt base. Ok, after 5+ months it is a bit bready.

Tried from Can on 17 Jun 2019 at 17:05


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

473ml can. Pours amber with a slight haze, off-white head. Aroma of orange, pine, grapefruit. Taste is bitter, piney, orange, grapefruit, resinous, caramel. Medium body, soft carbonation. Solid IPA.

Tried from Can on 14 May 2019 at 15:05


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draught @ MBCC'18 [ Yellow Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As 2nd Shift Art of Neurosis ].Clear medium red orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, sweet fruit, sugary, moderate hoppy, fruity hops, sweet hops, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, resin, fruity hops, fruity, pale malt, citrus - peach. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180511] 7-3-7-3-15

Tried on 06 Feb 2019 at 13:21


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can, from City Hops. Pours highly cloudy orange with large foamy off-white head, faint piney aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter lightly salty orange peel taste, thin body, long finish. Good brew.

Tried from Can on 24 Dec 2018 at 17:32