IPA

Draft at Haymarket, Chicago. Pours hazy golden with an off white head. Aroma of pine, citrus, grapefruit and malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Purchased from Bring on the Beer.

It pours a slightly hazy gold, forms a nice 1 finger head of foam, and leaves some lovely lacing.

Man, there’s a lot of lemon citrus in the nose with some hints of some malt...bread or biscuit. I like taking whiffs cuz I like that lemony aroma.

The smell was a bit deceiving vs the taste. I don’t get a whole lot of lemon citrus here..it’s mostly biggish piney notes with a solid biscuit malt flavour that really balances the hops and malts. Even swishing the beer in my mouth doesn’t bring out much of that lemony goodness. As the beer warms, I do get some citrus, mild as it is but it helps.

Well, this is an interesting brew that improves as it warms but still doesn’t hit my comfort zone, which is VERY wide for the style. Just an above average IPA.

Bottle. Pours dark golden with a finger thick head. Nice dry hopped aroma with orange peel, sweet citrus and apricot, passion fruits and tropical fruits, as well as notes of malt and toffee. Full creamy body with normal carbonation. Flavour is bitter with orange peel, grapefruit and peaches, and a very nice long finish with good grapefruity bitterness. A big and tasty IPA.

Pours a hazy golden orange and yields the same colored body with a two finger white foamy head that had some clingy lacing and spider webbed gently, the smell has some floral, citrusy, and lots of piney hops combined with a fresh maltiness for a very good combination, the taste is bittersweet between the hops and malts, very light bittersweet aftertaste, dry finish, it was fairly easy on the palate but still has a good harsh carbonation like an AIPA should have, overall, this is a pretty good AIPA that I would have again

Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Big grapefruit and light earth aroma with light pine. Grapefruit and pine flavor with light malt. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with light malt and light earth.

Draft. Amber body. Frothy, off-white head. Hop-forward aroma of citrus, resin, pine, orange, toasted grain. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and moderately bitter. Medium body, velvety texture, lively carbonation. Hops dominate the flavor with tastes of orange, citrus. Lingering resin. The flavors are washed over by the bitterness which lingers long into the finish. Nice.

Great hazy golden coloured body with some bronzish highlights and a thick, two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of bright hops, pineapple, passionfruit, pine, resin and a good malt backbone with some alcohol noticeable. Medium-bodied; Strong resinous and nutty flavour at first with a great floral and fruity finish of hops hitting hard at the end. Aftertaste has a hint of alcohol, some fruit flavours and a good balance of hops and malt with the hops obviously coming out on top. Overall, a very strong IPA, but still not in the range of AleSmith, sadly. Still, great to try and one that anyone who enjoys the style should search out for! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Bottleworks in Seattle, Washington on 10-February-2013 for US$5.49 sampled at home in [the real] Washington on 19-April-2013 a few days before returning to Portland.

Typical American fruity citrus hop nose. Some grass too. Soft citrus flavors, golden malts, mild bitterness. Low carbonation. Decent.

Bottle @ Chriso. Pours a golden orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty peachy hoppy aroma. Fruity fresh peachy hoppy flavor. has a fruity malty peachy hoppy finish.