Aleister American IPA
Haymarket Pub & Brewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.86
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 3/14/2019. Pours fairly crystal clear deep golden amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, wood, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, honey, toasted biscuit, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, wood, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, honey, toasted biscuit, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, wood, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, honey, toasted biscuit, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly crisp/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great, Minimal warming alcohol for 6.5%. Overall this is an excellent IPA. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and bready malt flavors; very smooth, easy, and fairly crisp to drink with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish; not aggressive. Awesome Amarillo hop showcase as expected. Very juicy, vibrant, and fairly dank/earthy hop complexity; with a great balanced bready malt backbone. Mild residual sweetness with crisp lingering resin dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on Midwest style example. No complaints.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From tap at the brewpub. Clear dark golden color with off white head. Malty and hoppy aroma, caramel, bread, grass. Sweet and bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Haymarket Chicago. Clear amber colour lasting white head. Pine and resin and toffee aroma. More toffee in the mouth with some pine hop over the top. It's an old style American ipa. Too much toffee for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Each beer I've sampled from Haymarket's new packaged line has been slightly deeper in color than the one before. Aleister, coming after the Speakerswagon and the Oscar's Pardon, pours a brassy color, with a slightly yellowish foamy head. This looks like it has the same proportion of Amarillo as the Oscar's Pardon. Bitterness is rather mild here, plays up pine resin. Strong malty background plays well with the hops. Unlike many American pale ales, this one strives for balance.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at the brewpub. Pours unclear orange-gold with a creamy head. The nose holds ripening citrus fruits, notes of pine, flowers. Medium sweet flavour, with light bitter pine, pale bread, orange rind. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Lightly resinous on the finish, floral, with more pine, light earth. Not bad.