A beautiful night in St. Joe: a classic Bad Habit review to save for later

Bennies and Johnnies, welcome to the first beer review of the year! We are exciting to have you tagging along as we try as many beers as we can get our hands on this year.

After a hot day on campus we decided that a flight at Bad Habit was just the thing we needed to refresh ourselves before homework. After perusing the beer list, we settled on an apricot wheat, a sour, an American hazy IPA and an American double IPA, which we tried in that order. Our reviews are as follows:

Planet of the Apricots – Apricot Wheat (6.0%)

Planet of the Apricots is a fruity, light, and easy drinker that is a great option for anyone who isn’t a fan of sours, but still wants that fruit flavor. On the first smell it came across fruity.

This fruity smell continued on to the taste, where we got the apricot notes with a bit of tang on the back end, but not the intense sourness of a true sour beer. It’s smooth and lightly carbonated, making it just as easy to drink as your classic light beer, with a bit more flavor.

Sunday Sour: Strawberry Mango (4.0%)

The Strawberry Mango Summer Sour is a great introductory sour option, as the sourness doesn’t kick quite as hard as some other sours we have had.

We ranked it around a five out of 10 in terms of sourness, with much more focus on the fruity flavor.

Our initial guess was a strawberry watermelon flavor profile, and the mango flavor is sneaky. It had a great tang, and the subtleness of the sour made it very refreshing.

Marvelous Mirabelle – American Hazy IPA (6.9%)

The first of the two IPAs we tried, Marvelous Mirabelle, is a great introductory IPA. It’s a bit of a thicker beer and smells hoppy, but it is very palatable. The initial bitterness was very low, but the bitter flavor builds into the aftertaste.

Caden remarked that it would be a great option if you are a fan of west coast IPAs, and we would recommend it to anyone with less IPA experience who just wants to dip their toes in.

Aggressive – American Double IPA (8.5%)

As the name suggests, Aggressive is a strong double IPA. A more advanced option, Aggressive is bitter right off the front and that bitterness lingers after you’re done.

It has a thinner, lager-like consistency, with a deceptively high alcohol content. We got a subtle fruity scent from it, but that scent was nowhere to be found in the flavor.

The smell was inviting, with stronger tones of herbs and grains which flowed right into the strong, bitter, hoppy taste