Hoptimization IPA
Feel the Rain Brothers Brew Co. in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.29
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Ashburn VA. Pale gold with a slight, white, head. Sharp hops, slightly creamy malts, some tangerine fruit and a dryish finish. Fine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at the source. Crystal clear golden color, bright white head. Aroma of grass and light pine. Taste is bitter pine, subtle lemon.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Clear amber and copper coloured body with a ridiculously large, seven centimetre tall plain white head. Aroma of light citrus and grassy hop note with some light malt and a hint of yeast. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive effervescence with a light grassy and herbal flavour of hops, some subdued malt and a hint of apricot and fruity sweetness at the end. Aftertaste shows a very light finish with the hops coming out and perhaps some grass notes. Overall, a rather light IPA that is seemingly on the session side, but at 7,1% abv, perhaps not so much. Not a bad beer so much as it’s just lacking in the flavours of other beers from the style, especially East Coast IPAs. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Giant Food in Falls Church, Virginia on 22-April-2014 for US$1,49 sampled at home in Washington on 06-July-2014.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear copper pour with a tall sticky off-white head. Aroma of citrus hops, some sweet caramel. The flavor is more to the sweet side. The hop bitterness is low but comes in for some dryness in the finish. Lacks a good crisp hop character.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Location: Draft at Capital Ale - Innsbrook, 5/1/14
Aroma: The nose is decent, with some citrus hops, some pale malts, caramel, and bit of grain
Appearance: This one pours a clear gold-orange color with a small, bubbly head on it
Flavor: The taste falls along the same lines, with an alright malt and hop flavor
Palate: The body is medium, leaning light, easy drinking, with a finish that's slightly off
Overall Impression: I thought this was an okay one, but it felt a little flawed to me. It's not bad at all, run-of-the-mill, but not bad. On the bell curve of this style, it would probably be closer to the bottom than it is to the top.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
12oz bottle pours a clear amber with almost zero head. Nose has a lot of fruit, apple and pear mostly, some lemon, malt, a little dried citrus peel, cardboard. Flavor is ok, sweet, lightly citrus, cheap malt, leaves. Watery finish. Not bad, but not very good either.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle from obguthr
Pours cloudy amber with a medium sized off-white head that dissipates quickly leaving lots of lacing. Aroma is grapefruit, caramel, herbal hops and burnt rubber. Flavor is grapefruit, caramel, metallic and pine resin
OK, but not balanced. The hops were bitter and lots of caramel, but they didn’t go together.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Pours clear and medium gold. A nice off-white head puffs up before dying away to a light coating of bubbles after a few minutes. The aroma is lacking. There’s just not much there. Light hops, some citrus and pine. A bit of caramel malt. Some neutral yeastiness. The taste is similarly underwhelming. Some caramel malt flavor and mild generic American hoppiness. It’s relatively dry, which is nice, but it needs some flavor to fill things out. Mouthfeel is fine, light with average carbonation. This bottle should be pretty fresh - it’s less than a month from the bottling date - but it really doesn’t seem quite right. I wouldn’t be surprised if the beer was markedly better on tap and in future bottling runs. Great Outdoors showed promise, and I’m a bit surprised that this is a step back.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6.5
Draft: Pine, rosehip, honey, and grapefruit bouquet, in that order. Clear copper, thin head. Grapefruit with lesser honey notes underneath, solid level of bitterness. Thin mouthfeel, very noticeably so. Nicely hopped and even a little dank, but watery.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Wine Warehouse, Charlottesville. Pours amber - almost no head. Interesting aroma. Almost smells like tomato vines, light orange, pine, and malt. Strange flavor - bubblegum, orange, lemon, grapefruit... Hmm...