First Drop
Upper Pass Beer Company in Burlington, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Zero Gravity Craft BreweryIPA - New England / Hazy Regular
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Score
7.33
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Previously a pale ale, the brewery reclassified this and labels it as an IPA.
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Bytemesis (16229) reviewed First Drop from Upper Pass Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Tap. Pours hazy golden orange, Medium creamy white head, great lacing. Aroma is a bit light, piney, grapefruit, pot, mango. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter, juicy. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. Solid. 7,5,7,4,15
I done drank this twice on the same trip! Lets compare my rakes and see if I know what the hell I am doing:
Tap. Pours clear golden orange, medium white head with great lacing. Aroma is pine, grapefruit, dank, pot, passionfruit. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter, dank and resinous. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. 7,5,7,5,15
Hell, I feel pretty good about that :)
rouhlas (5047) reviewed First Drop from Upper Pass Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
455 ml can at the Hoppy Pub, Thessaloniki. Hazy orange color with white head. Hoppy and malty aroma, grass, citrusy fruity, tropical fruits, caramel, herbal and veggie notes. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation. 8-3-8-3-15
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed First Drop from Upper Pass Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Canned 4/14/17, drunk 5/25/17 at Doc Pond’s.
Copper-to-light-amber body shows a moderate but not heavy haziness with a good-sized white head that is well-retained.
Star fruit, nectarine and spicy pineapple are joined by more classic pine and orange rind with lots of spicy, herbal, dank notes lingering in the background. Malts show a touch of bread but are otherwise left out of the way adding no more than the usual biscuit/cracker. Attenuation seems proper, from the nose and there is no flaw or alcohol and little resin.
Dry yet with some light honey and sticky malt notes on a fairly soft texture that uses quite a bit of carbonation, moderately engaging, to whisk all sorts of juicy citrus, pine and wood about the palate. Ends very dry, with lingering red grapefruit, nectarine, marmalade and pineapple. Nice and light, clean and fairly low on the resin. A good mix of West Coast and NE characteristics.
Garrold (11394) reviewed First Drop from Upper Pass Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. Super hazy gold. Thin, messy, lasting, white head. Nose has a load of juicy peach and mango. Slightly floral and herbal. Touch of white grape. Flinty, mineraly edge to it. Taste is light, citrusy bitter. Good fruity pop. Light body. Clean as a whistle. More juice on the finish. Drier on the close. Smashable.
CLW (16859) reviewed First Drop from Upper Pass Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Paid $3.50 for a 16 oz. can at CBC Waterbury. Date on bottom of can reads 9/20/16. Dirty orange in color. Aroma is floral, mild malt, earthy /leafy hops.
Body is medium, smooth, soft carbonation. Taste is floral right up front, light grass, citrus pith. Texture becomes lightly dry. Strong amount of bitterness. Is this an IPA or APA? The Brewer 1st called it an IPA during it’s early life. Now this is marketed in cans and clearly reads APA. Honestly, either way this is an enjoyable hoppy ale.
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Leighton (34941) reviewed First Drop from Upper Pass Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Keg at Blackback - Waterbury. Pours mostly clear gold with a creamy, white head. Great pithy citrus aroma, fresh, with some pale bread, orange. Medium sweet flavour with more pithy tangerine and grapefruit, pale bread, biscuit, m on. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Balanced finish, with further juicy citrus fruits, pale biscuits, melon, tangerine. Delicious APA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at Mcgillicuddy’s, Williston, VT.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking glossy / hazy burnt orange color. Light speckled lacing forms after the head dissipated.
The smell had a beautiful amount of juicy orange bitterness bursting into sharp citrus hops. Subtle tropical sweetness underneath.
The taste was a balanced sweet to bitter blend of citrus hops to malts. Light bitter citrus rind aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly light allowing the harshness to be the bitterness hitting the tongue.
Overall, this was a really good IPA that I would come back to.