Charleville Hoptimistic IPA
Charleville Vineyard & Microbrewery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.83
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours orange gold with medium white head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is pine and citrus. Slick body, grapefruit, pine, light bitterness, good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
5 oz pour on tap at the brewery. It's a hazy gold with trace sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with fair retention and nice lacing. Aroma is moderately strong herbal as it warms, mild citrus, light malt. Taste is vegetal, bitter and cracker malt. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin, frothy texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste with lingering bitterness and malt. Overall, not terribly strong, a bit thin and more bitter than I'd like.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
12oz bottle. 3 months old. Vile, putrid aroma...some infection has set in. Tastes nowhere near as bad as the aroma, but that alone is a killer. Weak stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle, courtesy of gregwilsonstl, pours up with a crystal clear pure copper body that supports a light tan head of foam. The mild aroma offers up earthy grassiness, spicy woodiness, a citrus bite and then a wafer thin cloud of tropical fruit and floral hops. The taste begins with an array of hops producing a pleasing level of bitterness leading into thin streams of fruity juiciness. I get bitter grassy and herbal and spicy onion notes that quickly pick up bitter and juicy grapefruit and tangelo and just a bit of pineapple. This has a bit of a different hop profile than most and I’m digging it. The various bitter notes blend in well with the mild juicy notes that pop up from time to time.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from gregwilsonstl, thanks for the opportunity! Slightly hazy deep golden color large frothy off white head. Caramel and citrus pine aroma. Bready caramel flavor with a lingering resinous bitterness to the finish. A bit old school but not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
On tap @ Baileys. Pours a bit hazy golden orange appearance with a white head. Slight candy, pineapple, grapefruit, caramel aroma. Kind of goopy and overly bitter. Caramel sugary, dull citrusy flavor. Eh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Hazy golden color, small white head. Aroma of pure pine needles. Taste is bitter pine resin. OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Floral, spice and alcohol aroma. Did not expect the alcohol to be present for a 6.5% beer. Pours a very deep orange with off-white head. Lots of malt, but nice floral flavor as well. Some bitterness and spritzy carbonation. Some cloying aspects from the malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
22oz bomber from Pick’s poured into a shaker. Pours a hazy orange with about 3 fingers of white head. Aroma of grapefruit and orange citrus. Taste is medium bitter and very light sweet. Taste of orange, grapefruit and light caramel. Medium bodied with a creamy texture. Lively carbonation and a long finish. Overall, its really good. I’m actually very surprised how good it is considering it was only 4 bucks for the bomber. Would totally drink this again.