Imperial Pale Ale
Maritime Pacific Brewing Co. in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.71
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the Tap House Grill in Seattle. This beer pours a clear pale orange-gold color with a medium thin off-white head that evaporates steadily to an outer ring. Strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrusy hops and malt. Medium body with flavors of hops, grapefruit and sweet malt. The finish is hoppy with a short citrus aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From tap at the brewpub. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and citrusy. Smooth fruity, grapefruity and pineneedle hoppy. Ends bitter and bone dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at The Taphouse, pours a light hazy golden. Fairly ordinary aroma and flavour of hops. Nothing too over-burdening. Smooth palate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught @ Jolly Roger Taproom, Seattle. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a malty hoppy citrus piney aroma. Dry malty hoppy bitter piney flavor. Has a long malty bitter hoppy finish with a long aftertaste.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Brouwer’s Café in Seattle where it was listed as “Maritime Pacific Dry Hopped Imperial IPA.”
It poured a crystal clear gold with lasting white head and sheet lacing. The aroma is pale sugary malts, some mild breadiness and faint vague hoppiness. The taste seems malty up front with sugary sweet malts and notes of bread. Then the hop ante up with vague tart bitterness initially then about midway some grapefruit hop bitterness surfaces. As the finish approaches the pine hop bitterness grows and heads right into the after taste. The pine really hangs around for a while. YUM.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On Tap at Maritime Pacific Seattle. Pours out a clear gold topped with a nice head. Light floral and citrus hop aroma. light bitterness. I would not guess it was a 2IPA. But a good IPA it would be.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Not very good. It does have a pleasant citrus hop aroma and promises to be a bitter, flavorful beer. Some grain, alcohol, and metal, all make the flavor unappealing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught pint at Redbones on 11/7/06
Very pale-gold colored beer is mostly clear, with just a slight chill haze. Some hay and platinum tints add to the striking lucidity, while a creamy, well-retained white head, bountifully tops the liquid, leaving a fair amount of thick lacing as it recedes.
Fruity, heavily dry-hopped nose is wonderfully aromatic and lacks any obnoxious bitterness or malt interference. This keg was specially dry-hopped for Redbones, so the score might be a little higher than in the bottle? Not overly complex, but I must say, I love cascade hops. Medium sweet, juicy orange and red grapefruit notes provide both vigor and comfort on the nose, backed by light pale malt sugariness. Growing more dry, and with a more reserved fruitiness, as it progresses, the hops remain, nevertheless, very juicy and "green". Clean, no alcohol showing through. Nothing that hasnt been done before, or done with more complexity, for sure, but it still shows promise and even a slight hint of tropical fruitiness (mango, mostly). At the very least, it is greatly focused on aromatics and not bitterness.
A medium-full body is quickly noticeable, though it’s not full of overly sweet/sugary malt notes. Dextrinous and quite dense, it’s well-matched by the frothy carbonation that processes the malt, adding juicy bits of citrus hop notes in its place. Green, flavorful and with a wholesome drying nature (no alcohol or heavy acidity used to dry), it continues to add orange and grapefruit notes, with very light mangoes, yellow cherries and some nectarines. After the hops begin to assert themselves, aided by the carbonation, the malt never seems too heavy, though it certainly is present all the way through, making quite a meal out of the beer. Well-done stuff, if slightly uninspiring in hop complexity. No alcohol or flaws notable.
bb (18428) reviewed Imperial Pale Ale from Maritime Pacific Brewing Co. 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber beer with a nice off-white head. Big sweet orange aroma with some backing caramel. Grapefruit and orange hop flavor with a bit of resin and some underlying vanilla. Lots of hop flavor with decent hop bitterness. Grapefruit bitterness lingers. The wheat helps make it a bit too drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask version, marks as above Just hazy honey-yellow beer, persistent white head. Nice flowery, honeyish and grapefruit hoparoma’s. Very nice nose, something perfumey or bathtub-filler notwithstanding. Flowery, but not very assertive hoppiness in the taste, with obvious grapefruit flavour. Traces of diacetyl, not disturbing. Grapefruit zeste retronasal. Not very big bodied, but makes it more drinkable, even refreshing. Ah, so they CAN make cask ale, if they want. Quite OK IPA, just... why "Imperial"? Keg Nearly clear orange-amber; good stable, small just off-white head. 4 Grapey hops, biscuity (the cookies, not oxydized) aroma. 7 Bitterness is "delayed action", as first impression is sweet, then metallic bitterness kicks in. 7 Harsh, metallic resiny impression and feel 3 OK IPA, but again the delayed action diminishes it, specially in MF. 14 = 3.5