Millstream Brewing Company Iowa Pale Ale

Iowa Pale Ale

 

Millstream Brewing Company in Amana, Iowa, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular
Score
6.58
ABV: 5.7% IBU: 45 Ticks: 23
India Pale Ale’s are turning into hoppy monsters, but our Iowa Pale Ale is milder and about balance. It has enough bitterness to match the maltiness provided by the pale malt base and gets its citrus zing from extensive dry-hopping with Cascade hops. This beer was first made in a few small batches as a summer seasonal in 2003. The response was so incredibly positive that is has worked its way into a year-round beer and became a favorite to many.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12 oz. bottle. Thanks, Stacy! Pours a clear, dark, bronze color, with a big, foamy, off-white head that leaves thick lacing. The aroma is pine sap, anise, wet grass, and rye. Sweet and malty, with a smooth, pleasant bitterness. Light to medium body, sticky, oily, and fairly clean. This is a solid, simple, and nicely balanced IPA.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Aug 2017 at 22:25


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

12 oz. bottle. Lightly hazy orange in color. Aroma shows me weak grass clippings, mild caramel.

Flavor of a caramel malt backbone, light floral, and mild pine. Weak bitterness. Not bad but more a APA rather than an IPA classification. Just mildly ok.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2017 at 20:55



7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Thanks to Chris for bringing this bottle over! Smooth fresh nose. The beer starts very floral, intense bitter-floral with a nice slight malty body. The mainpart is a bit sharp-bitter, great floralness, smooth, easy to drink with deepness. Nice!

Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2014 at 10:40


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Hazy amber pour - thick, soapy lace - juicy, resinous cascade nose, with a lightly bready malt base underneath - simple aroma, but pleasant - fairly creamy mouthfeel - flavor is fairly acidic and quite husky and dirty - bitter grapefruit rind and other bitter citrus notes - light woodiness - mild metallic notes - finish of lingering huskiness and some caramel and toasty Munich malt notes, which seem very out of place in this style - not all that enjoyable.

Tried on 11 Jul 2013 at 18:22


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

From a 12 oz bottle shared in Gardiner MT. Pours amber with a thick off white head. Grassy nose. Flavors of biscuit and some grass and butterscotch. Is this really an IPA?

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jun 2013 at 18:13


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

12oz bottle-lt tan-amber. A-soft pine, lt/med malt-caramel. T-pine hops, lt/med malt-caramel.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2012 at 19:26


5.6
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 11

Bottle. Hazy amber body with a fizzy, off-white head, rapidly diminishing. Strong raw grain aroma with notes of herbs, earth and a hint of pine. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture and lively carbonation. Taste of husky grain, citrus, orange, tart apple. The sweetness dries out in the finish. Average.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Oct 2012 at 18:31


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

12 ounce bottle from pepsican. Thanks! Pours a hazy amber color with a thin frothy white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of toasted malts with a faint floral hoppiness. The taste is toasted caramel malts with a citrus hop finish. Medium bodied. Decent,

Tried from Bottle on 30 Aug 2012 at 22:37


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Pours a clear deep amber with a tan head that dissipates to the edges and laces nicely. Aroma has a good amount of an earthy bread note backed by a light pine note with a hint of backing grass. Flavor has more of a citrus note with a good amount of backing grain with a hint of underlying bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2012 at 19:28