Vermont Pub & Brewery Bombay Grab IPA

Bombay Grab IPA

 

Vermont Pub & Brewery in Burlington, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular
Score
6.63
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 77 Ticks: 22
A big bitter 77 IBU India Pale Ale, spiced with a blend of fragrant Magnum, Simcoe, and Cascade hops. An American IPA receipe designed by our late Brewmaster, Greg Noonan. He said that he wanted this to represent the American style IPAs being brewed by the creative brewers using todays malt and hop varieties.
 

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Dark gold with a medium sized white head. Bitter and rough with fruity and floral hops. Medium finish and body.

Tried from Draft on 07 Sep 2025 at 21:10


5.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Golden colour and small white head. Bitter, earthy nose. Light-bodied. Bitter, a bit earthy flavor. Tolerable.

Tried from Draft at Vermont Pub and Brewery on 28 Jul 2025 at 11:59


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Some nicy noppy notes, citrus, pine, resin, but its all pretty faint, and dare i say boring. The malts are lightly toasted caramel, and grass. It all seems underwhelming and a tad watery. Medium bitterness, light pine finish.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:17


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at the brewery. Pours gold. Lemon, grapefruit peel, pine, grain, bitter finish, little herbal almost amaro like bitterness. Medium body. Fine.

Tried from Draft on 28 May 2024 at 23:55


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft at the source. Clear gold, white head. Tropical fruit, citrus, pine, good.

Tried from Draft on 04 Nov 2023 at 01:32


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Vermont Pub, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out earthy and piney hops, and a dry toasted biscuity malt backbone. Flavour is along the same lines, with piney hops, and crisp biscuity malt. Nothing special, but it's clean and drinkable.

Tried from Draft on 07 Aug 2018 at 14:38


5.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Keg at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington. Hazy deep golden, small head. Rich grapefruit aroma. Mid sweet with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Piney citrus, crystal malt. Resiny bitter finish.

Tried on 11 Feb 2017 at 19:59


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at brewpub itself.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy burnt orange color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute leaving some light lacing on the glass. The smell started off with some sweet grassy hops rolling over on some semi-sweet citrus hops, definitely playing a subtle low-key effect over some sweet malt.
The taste was mainly grassy sweet through the hops.Light underscore of malts to play with the sweetness yet still have enough oomph from the bitterness to show some effect in the aftertaste and finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA that I could have again.

Tried from Draft on 20 May 2016 at 02:57


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

New England Bucket List Trip #137. Keg at the brewpub. Pours a clear vibrant yellow with a thin creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of spicy, herbal, resin hops, dilly, thyme, pale malt, hints of raisin. The taste is tropical, citrus, pine hops, spice, pale malt. Medium bodied, mild lingering spice.

Tried on 02 Mar 2015 at 01:41


6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

dark yellow hazy slightly. nose of pine cone and brown sugar taste is resinous and sticky, light malt backbone and a touch of table sugar w/ frosted flakes.

Tried on 09 Aug 2014 at 16:27