Innocence Ale (-2015)
City Steam Brewery in Hartford, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.62
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Leighton (34941) reviewed Innocence Ale (-2015) from City Steam Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle at the cabin in NH. Pours perfectly clear, penny copper with a large, lasting, slightly off-white head. The nose holds bread, caramel, grains, some unfermented wort, barley juice, light pine and leaves. Light to medium sweet with some dry bread, pine, off smokey notes, dry caramel, berries. Medium bodied with fine, creamy carbonation. A bit of dirty, earthy bitterness on the finish with more pine and leaves, dry bread, further off smoke notes, alcohol and more dry caramel. Mediocre, really.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Pours orange amber with white head. Nose/taste of grapefruit peel, caramel malt, harsh grain, pine and bitter rotten oranges. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours deep hazy amber into a Sam glass. Off-white head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing to coat surface. Sour caramel aromas. Medium bodied with stale caramel upfront turning to nutty bread before the lasting bitter earth finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the source. Comes to the table a solid golden amber with a decent head that leaves lots of lace on the way down. Smells of bitter citrus and earth with lots of caramel maltiness to back it up. Old school aroma reminds me of Harpoon. The flavor follows the aroma with lots of grapefruit and lemon pith with hints of pine and a bit of caramel and brown bread to back it up. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a slick sweet mouthfeel. Nice old school IPA I enjoyed it.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Innocence Ale (-2015) from City Steam Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Hazy dark amber color, thick off white head, solid lacing. Aroma of fragrant and floral pine. Taste is very bitter pine resin, too bitter for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Purchased at Craft Beer Cellar in Belmont, MA, enjoyed at my quaint B&B in Boston. Happy to have finally found a place that had a CT beer! Appearance is a slightly cloudy gold with a thin frothy white head. Aroma has a light pine hop smell with a crisp malt backing, smells nice. Taste is pretty good, goes down slightly crisp but also with a good bitterness. There's nothing exceptional about this, but it's pretty solid.
CLW (16859) reviewed Innocence Ale (-2015) from City Steam Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft @ brewpub. Pint glass. Small, thin white head. Nose of citrus hops. Flavor is a standard,classic IPA. Grapefruit, malty backbone with a slight resin in the back end of the sip. Not complex in any format but.... still enjoyable. Tad above average. Balanced just right.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Innocence Ale (-2015) from City Steam Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught pint at City Steam on 3/21/2007
Moderately hazy, golden body has strong amber-auburn highlights and a small, quickly receding white head that leaves behind no lacing.
Strong hoppiness in the nose is wet and juicy, but seems to have to work a bit too hard at freeing itself from the malt behind it. Sweet caramel malts add a strong sugariness that really lessens the impact of the hops and creates too much interplay, leading to a candied orange-like nose. Some lemon-grapefruit notes break free on the finish, and begin to dry things out, while a distinct amarillo catty/hay/grassiness lingers on (actually seemed pleasant here). I appreciate that there was a solid malt backbone, and I think, within reason, too much is better than too little (creating what essentially smells/tastes like hop juice/tea), but for perfection’s sake, it needs less malt sweetness. No alcohol noted, nor any flaws.
Sweet maltiness in the flavor is immediately balanced by a strong showing of bitterness, though not going overboard, and certainly not too acidic. This wonderful hop seems to always impress me with its ability to create tons of aroma and flavor without all the obnoxious acidity. But as in the aroma, a bit too much pale/caramel sweetness wears on the palate, disturbing the light orange-lime-mango notes that are otherwise so delightful in this hop. Seems to be too much yeast and/or sediment still left in the beer, as well, as evidenced by the haziness, but also the lack of head retention and most importantly, a somewhat slippery/slick mouthfeel. Unfiltered dosent have to mean hazy, still think this stuff would be better bright. Enjoyable drinking, though, with no flaws or alcohol in the flavor. Low carbonation.